3CMedia: Journal of Community, Citizen's and Third Sector Media and Communication The Making Links 2007 Special Issue is now available online at: http://www.cbonline.org.au/3cmedia/3c_issue4/ This issue of 3CMedia continues a dialogue about the raison d’être for community organisations (including community media organisations) in times of participatory culture, media convergence and Web 2.0. Do the affordances of these socio-cultural and technical trends render the third sector less significant or even obsolete as some commentators speculate? This issue of 3CMedia has been edited by Marcus Foth and brings together research papers that explore new opportunities opened up to community sector organisations by emerging technologies. It features articles based on papers presented at the 2007 Making Links conference held at the NSW Teachers Federation Conference Centre in Sydney in October, 2007. Originating in community health networks, the Making Links conference series now targets the whole community and non-profit sector. The fifth Making Links conference will take place this year at The University of Melbourne from 11th to 13th November, with conference themes of community, responsibility and sustainability (see http://www.makinglinks.org.au/) . The Making Links issue of 3CMedia includes papers by Atari Metcalf, Christine Satchell, Ali Asghar Kia, Danny Butt, Edwina Luck and Elizabeth Buchanan. For full abstracts see: http://www.cbonline.org.au/3cmedia/3c_issue4/ 3CMedia: Journal of Community, Citizen's and Third Sector Media and Communication is a free, scholarly e-journal and is published by the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. See: http://www.cbonline.org.au/3cmedia/ for further details. Thanks! Christina Spurgeon Editor 3CMedia: Journal of Community, Citizen's and Third Sector Media and Communication Senior Lecturer, Journalism, Media & Communication Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology Musk Avenue, Kelvin Grove, 4059, Australia Tel: + 61 7 31388184 Fax: + 61 7 31388195 Email: c.spurgeon@qut.edu.au -- Dr Marcus Foth Australian Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88195 - Office Z6-511 m.foth@qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/publications/