Faculty Book Launch 
12-13 February 2009

You are invited to celebrate the publication success of two of your colleagues, Jason Wilson and Mark McLelland from the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communications, Faculty of Arts.  The event is hosted by the Faculty of Arts in conjunction with the "Self, Place and Broadband Connectivity: Making and Making Do" workshop being held February 12-13 sponsored by the Faculty's Research Priority Area Innovation in Cultural Research (ICR) Research Priority Area and the ARC Cultural Research Network (CRN). 

The books:

Jason Wilson - (SSMC) “The Pleasures of Computer Gaming: Essays on Cultural History, Theory, and Aesthetics”, ed. Jason Wilson and Melanie Swalwell, Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co. Publishers, 2008.  For more information http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-3595-1

Mark McLelland - (SSMC) “Internationalizing Internet Studies: Beyond Anglophone Paradigms”, ed. Gerard Goggin and Mark McLelland, New York: Routledge 2009 - For more information http://www.routledgecommunication.com/books/Internationalizing-Internet-Studies-isbn9780415956253

The Launch will also be recognising two other ARC CRN members books as well.

Larissa Hjorth - “Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific: Gender and the Arts of Being Mobile”, Routledge 2008

Larissa Hjorth  & Gerard Goggin - “Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunications to Media”, Routledge 2009

The event will be opened by the Associate Dean of Research, Prof Wenche Ommundsen and the books will be launched by the Coordinator of ICR and HOS for SSMC, Prof David Marshall.