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        Editors' Note

        Lisa Brawley
        lbrawley@kent.edu
        
        Stuart Moulthrop
        samoulthrop@UBmail.ubalt.edu

        © 1998 Lisa Brawley and Stuart Moulthrop.
        All rights reserved.

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        With this first issue of volume nine, we introduce a new section
        of Postmodern Culture expressly addressed to the relay between
        new media technologies and cultural practice. We've called this
        section "Traffic." To be sure, the intersection of technology,
        media, and cultural theory remains a central concern of the
        journal as a whole, but this section is reserved for work that
        does not conform to the conventional structure of a critical
        essay. Something like field notes in global information culture,
        Traffic will make use of the multimedia capacities of the journal
        to comment on technoculture in its own idiom. We invite
        interviews, illustrations, brief commentary, collaborative web
        projects, interactive syllabi, animation, and video scripts. We
        are especially interested in work that queries the force of new
        media technologies on the practices of scholarship and teaching.

        Also with this issue we announce the return of the PMC prize.
        Each June, the editorial board of Postmodern Culture will choose
        an outstanding critical and/or creative work published in the
        journal during the previous volume year. The author of this work
        will receive $500 and special billing on our main page.

                                                             Lisa Brawley
                                                         Stuart Moulthrop
                                                               Co-editors

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