Dear AoIRists, On behalf of the contributors to and co-editors of _Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication 2012_ (Proceedings of CATaC'12 - held in Aarhus, Denmark, July 3-6) - we are very pleased to announced that the Proceedings are now available online <http://blogs.ubc.ca/catac/proceedings/proceedings-2012/>. The Proceedings are hosted at issuu.com and will require registering for a free account in order to download the desired files. Just click on the blue "Create Account" link at the upper right-hand corner: you know the drill. With all due modesty: we are absolutely confident that the AoIR community (among others) will find no small number of papers in this year's Proceedings to be most interesting, relevant, and fruitful for a wide range of research interests that attend to culturally-variable and culturally-relevant dimensions, affordances, etc. of online communication. We are also very happy to provide AoIRists with advance notice that Proceedings from the previous CATaC conferences - i.e., starting in 1998 and held every second year since- will also be made available online within the next few months. We anticipate that the collected Proceedings will serve as a very rich resource for both recent and earlier research approaches, findings, and reflections in the culturally-variable dimensions of communication via ICTs - and thereby offer unique possibilities for more longitudinal research and comparisons as well. Like the CATaC conferences, the Proceedings are always very much a collective effort. In this instance, great thanks are due to the Proceedings' editors, beginning with Herbert Hrachovec and Michele Strano - and particular thanks go to Fay Sudweeks and Leah Macfadyen for their yoe-woman's work in making the Proceedings available in this online format. Enjoy! With all best wishes, - charles Associate Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway Tel. +47 228 50404 email: charles.ess@media.uio.no Lifetime member, Association of Internet Researchers ³At vove er at miste fodfæstet for en stund, ikke at vove er at miste sig selv² [To dare is to lose your footing for an hour; not to dare is to lose yourself] - Kierkegaard