Dear OURMedia members, PLATFORM Journal of Media and Communication invites you to view papers of the inaugural *PLATFORM* ANZCA Special Edition 2010 <http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform/anzca2010.html>, a collaborative volume with the Australian and New Zealand Communication Assocation <http://www.anzca.net/index.htm>. "With generous financial support from the ARC-funded Cultural Research Network and the ANZCA executive, five post-graduate workshops were held across Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales. The most extensive workshop was held at Queensland University of Technology in July 2009 as a pre-conference ANZCA event. Selected post-graduates were given an opportunity to present their research to eminent media and communications scholars, including Professor Gerard Goggin, Professor John Hartley and Professor Gay Hawkins, amongst others. ... From the plethora of talented individuals who presented at the workshops, we are thrilled to present five of the students' research in this very special edition. These five postgraduates were chosen by their peers to reflect the variety of interesting research currently occurring within the media and communications field." - Diana Bossio, Editor. Table of contents as follow: Editorial *Diana Bossio, Swinburne Univerity, Australia and Blaise Murphet, University of Melbourne, Australia.* Articles: - Communication Patterns Within Social Networks: A Case Study of Australian Women. *By Orit Ben-Harush, Queensland University of Technology, Australia* - Development, Cultural Maintenance and Traditional Owners: The LNG Development Proposal at James Price Point in the Kimberley. *By Deborah Ruiz Wall, University of Western Sydney, Australia* - Building Indigenous Social Capital in an Online World. *By Susan Bandias, Charles Darwin University, Australia* - Flip Skirt Fatales: How Media Fetish Sidelines Cheerleaders. *By Emma Tom, University of New South Wales, Australia* - The Mythic Element of Mass Media and Its Relation to Plato's Cave. *By Geoff Berry, Monash University, Australia* There will be a launch party at the University of Melbourne on Thursday, 22nd April. You are invited to join us! Time: 6pm-8.30pm Place: Tsubu courtyard (opposite Frank Tate Building) Happy reading! Akina Mikami (Journal Manager) PLATFORM is an international peer-review graduate journal, available online through open-access. PLATFORM is refereed by an international board of established and emerging scholars working across diverse paradigms in Media and Communication. It is edited by graduate students at the University of Melbourne, and published by the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne. [EDITORS] Esther Chin (Founding Editor, Editor-in-Chief, Vol. 1) Amira Firdaus (Editor-in-Chief, Vol. 2 Issue 1) Dale Leorke (Editor-in-Chief, Vol. 2 Issue 2) Sandy Joy Watson (Deputy Editor and Peer-Review Coordinator) Luke van Ryn (Associate Editor) Christopher Traficante (Essays Editor) Ruhie Kumar (Reviews Editor) [WEBSITE, DESIGN & CREATIVE EDITOR] Gin Chee Tong (Website and Creative Editor) Marcos Dias (Website Editor) James Donald (Website Editor) [COPYRIGHT MANAGER & EXTERNAL LIASION] Blaise Murphet [JOURNAL MANAGEMENT] Akina Mikami (Journal Manager) Lana Logam (Assistant Journal Manager) Maria Shi (Communications Officer) [ADVISROY BOARD] Advising Editor: Ingrid Volkmer, University of Melbourne, Australia Board Members: Sean Cubitt, University of Melbourne, Australia Jenny Lee, University of Melbourne, Australia Mark Davis, University of Melbourne, Australia Brian Fitzgerald, Queensland University of Technology, Australia [EDITORIAL BOARD] Benjamin De Cleen, Young Scholars Network, ECREA Joanna Redden, Young Scholars Network, ECREA Tamara Witschge, Young Scholars Network, ECREA Stefania Milan, Emerging Scholars Network, IAMCR Michele Cheng Hoon Khoo, Student Board, ICA Malte Hinrichsen, Student Board, ICA Diana Bossio, ANZCA -- Akina Mikami Master of Global Media Communication BA (Hons)(Media and Communications) Dip. in Modern Languages in French The University of Melbourne [log in to unmask] Journal Manager PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication http:[log in to unmask]