Dear colleagues, This special community issue of the open-access journal *Digital Culture & Education* may be of interest to the list.

From the introduction (By Singh & Walsh):

The HIVe is a dynamic model that stimulates ongoing systems-wide strategic

collaboration among HIV education, research, policy and practice sectors. The HIVe <http://www.hiv-e.org/> is an open source universal access research and education community that continuously grows by sharing effective digital community-based and led HIV prevention and care interventions for gay men, other men that have sex with men (MSM) and transgender communities. The model’s design understands digitally mediated and driven sexual behaviours pose unforeseen challenges for traditional HIV prevention. By sharing successful interventions, it hopes to inspire policy and practice change through community mobilisation by constructing assets and exchanging resources to challenge stigma and discrimination, and improve human rights with the aim of stopping new infections (Walsh & Singh, 2012).

* * *Contents List:* * * *Introduction: Harnessing digital technologies to challenge the dominant HIV/AIDS paradigm* *Judy Auerbach* * * *Editorial: Prevention is a solution: Building The HIVe* *Gurmit Singh & **Christopher S Walsh* * * *Bringing sexy back into gay community empowerment for HIV prevention & care: The Poz & Proud approach* *Leo Schenk & Gurmit Singh* * * *Local languages, global exchange: Digital networking, communication and collaboration for the health and human rights of men who have sex with men* *Jack Beck, Lily Catanes, Pato Hebert, Goldie Negelev & George Ayala* * * *The use of the Internet in male sexual encounters by men who have sex with men in Cameroon* E*milie Henry, Yves Yomb, Lionel Fugon & Bruno Spire* * * *ICT & HIV prevention: Experiences from a biomedical HIV prevention trial among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Cape Town, South Africa* *Andrew Scheibe, Ben Brown & Linda-Gail Bekker* * * *Digital media and the Internet for HIV prevention, capacity building and advocacy among gay,* *other men who have sex with men (MSM), and transgender: Perspectives from Kolkata, India* *Rohit K. Dasgupta* * * *Innovative digital HIV/AIDS education and prevention for marginalized communities: Frontline* *TEACH* *Val Sowell, Juliet Fink & Jane Shull* * * *The social technographics of gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) in Canada: Implications for HIV research, outreach and prevention* *Dan Allman, Ted Myers, Kunyong Xu & Sarah J. Steele* * * *Sexperts! Disrupting injustice with digital community-led HIV prevention and legal rights education in Thailand* *Nada Chaiyajit & Christopher S Walsh* * * *Funder’s perspective: Building The HIVe* *Kent Klindera* * * *Advocacy perspective: Sexuality, sex education and The HIVe in support of advocacy around the world* *Ryan Ubuntu Olson & Ron MacInnis* * * *Public health perspective: Building The HIVe* *Jonathan Elford* * * *Epilogue: Playing public health* *Tom Apperley & Christopher S Walsh* * * *Read & download all articles www.digitalcultureandeducation.com * Best wishes, Tom -- Tom Apperley Lecturer of Digital Ethnography Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching) Monash University Room C3.05, Building C, Level 3, Caulfield Campus 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, VIC, 3145 Australia PO Box 197, Caulfield East, VIC, 3145, Australia T: +61 3 990 34087* http://opvclt.monash.edu/ *Follow us on Twitter: @OPVCLTMonash** CRICOS Provider: Monash University 00008C ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email (and any files transmitted with it) is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please delete it and notify the originator of the message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender, with authority, states them to be the views of Monash University. It is the recipient's responsibility to scan for viruses prior to use. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------