Dear AoIR-niks, With great pride, we announce the first special AOIR issue of _Information, Communication and Society__. Edited by veteran AOIR members Caroline Haythornthwaite and me, but written by YOU. The articles in this issue are based on papers presented to the last AOIR conference. The Table of Contents is below, and the editors' intro talks about how the papers got to land between the covers. In addition to the quality, we're especially pleased about the diversity. As you can tell a paper from its title, you'll see a variety of topics, methods, disciplines and nationalities. Just as a teaser -- and this time of the year I do think of the Holy Land -- the first article tells about how Arab Palestinian-Israeli young men give their young women friends mobile phones, but use a number of means to ensure that these women use the phones to talk only to them. Happy reading. Hard copy out soon. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. 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Dear Barry Wellman, Information, Communication & Society: Volume 11 Issue 2 (http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=issue&issn=1369-118X&volume=11&iss...) is now available online at informaworld (http://www.informaworld.com). This new issue contains the following articles: EDITORIAL COMMENT p. 143 Authors: Barry Wellman; Caroline Haythornthwaite DOI: 10.1080/13691180801933976 Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1369-118X&volume=11&i... PLAYING WITH FIRE: On the domestication of the mobile phone among Palestinian teenage girls in Israel p. 149 Authors: Hiyam Hijazi-Omari; Rivka Ribak DOI: 10.1080/13691180801934099 Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1369-118X&volume=11&i... LITERARY SLEUTHS ONLINE: e-Research collaboration on the Pynchon Wiki p. 167 Authors: Ralph Schroeder; Matthijs Den Besten DOI: 10.1080/13691180801934297 Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1369-118X&volume=11&i... RICHARD & JUDY'S BOOK CLUB AND ‘CANADA READS’: Readers, books and cultural programming in a digital era p. 188 Authors: Denel Rehberg Sedo DOI: 10.1080/13691180801934487 Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1369-118X&volume=11&i... BEYOND MEDIA PRODUCERS AND CONSUMERS: Online multimedia productions as interpersonal communication p. 207 Authors: Lori Kendall DOI: 10.1080/13691180801937084 Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1369-118X&volume=11&i... FROM TEXT TO GESTURE ONLINE: A microethnographic analysis of nonverbal communication in the Second Life virtual environment p. 221 Authors: Smiljana Antonijevic DOI: 10.1080/13691180801937290 Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1369-118X&volume=11&i... THE PARTICIPATION DIVIDE: Content creation and sharing in the digital age p. 239 Authors: Eszter Hargittai; Gina Walejko DOI: 10.1080/13691180801946150 Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1369-118X&volume=11&i... QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWING IN INTERNET STUDIES: Playing with the media, playing with the method p. 257 Authors: Michelle M. Kazmer; Bo Xie DOI: 10.1080/13691180801946333 Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1369-118X&volume=11&i... SPLOGS AND ABANDONED BLOGS: The perils of sampling bloggers and their blogs p. 279 Authors: Dan Li; Gina Walejko DOI: 10.1080/13691180801947976 Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1369-118X&volume=11&i... Should you wish to stop receiving these emails or update which email alerts you receive, please go to: http://www.informaworld.com/alerting The email address you are subscribed with is: wellman@chass.utoronto.ca Please do not reply to this email. 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