possible journal opportunity for folks. see below. Barry ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman@chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 ___________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 15:56:11 -0700 From: Peter Nardi <Peter_Nardi@PITZER.EDU> To: "'edboard@pitzer.edu'" <edboard@PITZER.EDU> Subject: Sociological Perspectives update The annual Pacific Sociological Association meetings have just concluded, and I will sending you our annual report of the journal in the next day or so. Meanwhile, please circulate the following notice to interested researchers about our next special issue.

Call for Papers for Special Issue of Sociological Perspectives on Media,Popular Culture, and the Arts

Guest Editors: Denise D. Bielby and William T. Bielby, University of California, Santa Barbara.

We invite submissions of original empirical, theoretical, or methodological scholarship that advance sociological understanding ofmedia, popular culture, and the arts. Among relevant topics are: relationships between audiences and those who create culture; aesthetics and criticism; social practices and new media; sociology of performance;culture industries and culture work; inequality and difference in media production and media texts. Regardless of theoretical perspective or methodological approach, we are especially interested in papers that transcend the boundary between humanistic interpretation and scientific explanation.

Deadline: September 15, 2002. Send 6 copies to Peter Nardi, Editor,Sociological Perspectives; Dept. of Sociology; Pitzer College; 1050 N. Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA, 91711. Please check a current issue or the web page (www.ucpress.edu/journals/sop/) for submission information. Please note that submissions will undergo the blind review process.