air colleagues may be interested in joining a live webcast on Friday 16th at 5.00 p.m. UK time which is being given by Professor Frank Webster (Professor of Sociology, City University, London. Entitled 'Understanding The Information Age: The Uneasy Relations Between Sociology And Cultural Studies' it is part of a series of webcasts by the journal 'Information, Communication & Society'(www.infosoc.co.uk). This will be a live webcast from the Oxford Internet Institute and can be accessed from the OII website (http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/): An embedded video will be available on the Oxford Internet Institutes page 30 mins before the event starts. A short time after the event is finished a streaming archive video of the event will be available at the site along with a high quality MP4 download. A downloadable pdf version of Frank's paper is also available: Abstract: As a leading scholar in debates about the Information Age, Professor Frank Webster is well placed to provide a polemical commentary in this webcast about the respective merits and limitations of sociological anaylsis and cultural studies as a way of understanding socio-technical change. -- Brian D. Loader, Co-Director, Social Informatics Research Unit, Department of Sociology, Wentworth College, University of York, Heslington, YORK YO1 5DD. United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (0) 1904 432639 Fax: +44 (0) 1904 433043 email: bl506@york.ac.uk