Not sure I saw a copy of this go to the list. Pardon me if this is a duplicate... --elijah ---- The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication has just published (April 2007) a double-themed special issue: Theme I: The Social, Political, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions of Search Engines, guest edited by Eszter Hargittai Theme II: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Religion and Computer-Mediated Communication, guest edited by Charles Ess (with Akira Kawabata and Hiroyuki Kurosaki) The table of contents is appended below. All current and past JCMC articles can be accessed at: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/ --- Contents of JCMC - Volume 12, Issue 3, April 2007 --- Special Theme I: The Social, Political, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions of Search Engines 1. The Social, Political, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions of Search Engines: An Introduction - Eszter Hargittai 2. Heuristic and Systematic Use of Search Engines - Werner Wirth, Tabea Böcking, Veronika Karnowski, and Thilo von Pape 3. In Google We Trust: Users' Decisions on Rank, Position, and Relevance - Bing Pan, Helene Hembrooke, Thorsten Joachims, Lori Lorigo, Geri Gay, and Laura Granka 4. Searching for Culture-High and Low - Jennifer Kayahara and Barry Wellman 5. Learning to Search and Searching to Learn: Income, Education, and Experience Online - Philip N. Howard and Adrienne Massanari 6. Is Relevance Relevant? Market, Science, and War: Discourses of Search Engine Quality - Elizabeth Van Couvering 7. Equal Representation by Search Engines? A Comparison of Websites across Countries and Domains - Liwen Vaughan and Yanjun Zhang 8. Google Bombing from a Time Perspective - Judit Bar-Ilan Special Theme II: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Religion and Computer-Mediated Communication 9. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Religion and Computer-Mediated Communication - Charles Ess (with Akira Kawabata and Hiroyuki Kurosaki) 10. Diaspora on the Electronic Frontier: Developing Virtual Connections with Sacred Homelands - Christopher Helland 11. Internet Use among Religious Followers: Religious Postmodernism in Japanese Buddhism - Kenshin Fukamizu 12. Online-Religion in Japan: Websites and Religious Counseling from a Comparative Cross-Cultural Perspective - Akira Kawabata and Takanori Tamura 13. Conflict and Intolerance in a Web Community: Effects of a System Integrating Dialogues and Monologues - Mitsuharu M. Watanabe 14. Who's Got the Power? Religious Authority on the Internet - Heidi Campbell 15. Islam, Jihad, and Terrorism in Post 9/11 Arabic Discussion Boards - Rasha A. Abdulla 16. Islam and Online Imagery on Malaysian Tourist Destination Websites - Noor Hazarina Hashim, Jamie Murphy, and Nazlida Muhamad Hashim 17. Virtually Sacred: The Performance of Asynchronous Cyber Rituals in Online Spaces - Stephen Jacobs 18. Technological Modernization, the Internet, and Religion in Singapore - Randolph Kluver and Pauline H. Cheong --- The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication is an open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal. It has been published on the Web quarterly since June 1995. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/ ---