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Dear all, Following the success of the fifth MeCCSA Postgraduate Network conference held at the University of Sussex in July 2008, we are pleased to announce that a new issue of the e-journal Networking Knowledge is now available online at the following address: http://journalhosting.org/meccsa-pgn/index.php/netknow/issue/current This issue includes a selection of 16 articles originally delivered at the conference by postgraduate students from ten different academic institutions, and covering a wide range of topics in the fields of Media, Communication and Cultural studies. Veronica Barassi --- Digital vs Material: the Everyday Construction of Mediated Political Action Linda Berkvens --- From Below to Above the Title: the Construction of the Star Image of Barbara Stanwyck, 1930-1935 Jimmy Billingham --- Indeterminate Film-thinking and Interpretation Niall Brennan --- Representing National Culture, Values and Identity in the Brazilian Television Mini-series Marina Dekavalla --- Scottish Press Coverage of UK General Elections after Devolution: the 2001 and 2005 Campaigns Vincent M. Gaine --- 'We're on Flashdrive or CD-ROM': Disassembly and Deletion in the Digital Noir of Collateral Huili Hao --- The Representation of Motherhood in Post-socialist Chinese Cinema Craig Haslop --- Wot Not Queer: the Search for Sexual Representation in Audience Research Rachael Kelly --- The Iconography of Mark Antony Agnieszka Knaļ --- Read My Voice: Expressing Silence and Sound in Text-messages Yvonne Lee --- The Medium is Global, The Content is not: Translating Commercial Websites Liezel C. Longboan --- Igorots in the Blogosphere: Claiming Spaces, Re-constructing Identities Paul O'Reilly --- 'I Will Survive': Forty Years of Amber Films and the Evolution of Regional Film Policy Kristin Skoog --- "Focus on the Housewife": the BBC and the Post-war Woman, 1945-1955 Hai Tang --- Blogging in China: Freedom of Expression vs Political Censorship in Sexual and Satirical Blogs Rachel Mizsei Ward --- Underworld vs the World of Darkness: Players and Filmgoers Respond to a Legal Battle very best wishes Iain Smith -- Iain Robert Smith Institute of Film and Television School of American and Canadian Studies University of Nottingham University Park NG7 2RD Executive Committee MeCCSA Post-Graduate Network website: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/pgn/ Editorial Board Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies website: http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/