Scan is a refereed on-line journal (ISSN 1449-1818) devoted to the media arts and culture, hosted by the Media Department at Macquarie University, Sydney.
Its approach is inter-disciplinary, as is its subject matter. Scan draws on media studies, cultural studies, media law, information and technology studies, fine arts and philosophy. Scan considers developments in new media, digital art, screen arts, music and audio arts, as well as the culture enveloping these practices and technologies.
Scan is concerned with both the aesthetics and the political economy of media arts, as practised in both new and traditional media forms. Scan will be published electronically three times a year. Each issue will be thematic, comprising 6-10 articles, with a maximum word-length of 6,000 words.
Current Issue:
Vol 5 Number 1 May 2008
Screenscapes Past Present Future
edited by Chris Chesher, Peter Marks, Kathy Cleland
Previous Issues:
vol 4 number 3 december 2007
Mobile Media/Public Spaces
edited by John Potts
vol 4 number 2 august 2007
Film as Philosophy
edited by Fiona Jenkins and Robert Sinnerbrink
vol 4 number 1 april 2007
e-Performance: Post-disciplinary contexts and theorisation
edited by Yuji Sone
vol 3 number 3 december 2006
Technological Interventions
edited by Nicole Anderson and Nikki Sullivan
vol 3 number 2 october 2006
Cinematic Scriptwriting
edited by Kathryn Millard
vol 3 number 1 june 2006
News and the Net: Convergences and Divergences
edited by Chris Atton & Graham Meikle
vol 2 number 3 december 2005
Shadows of the Dead: Mediating the Archive Photograph
edited by Peter Doyle & John Potts
vol 2 number 2 september 2005
Memory, Media, and Embodied Cognition
edited by John Sutton
vol 2 number 1 april 2005
"The Glittering Tart": Imaging Sydney
edited by Catherine Simpson & Anthony Lambert
vol 1 number 3 november 2004
BODILY (Trans)Formations
edited by Daniel Nourry & Nikki Sullivan
vol 1 number 2 june 2004
Ghost & Their Machines: Magic, Technology and the Uncanny
edited by John Potts & Edward Scheer
vol 1 number 1 january 2004
Ludic Moments
edited by Patrick Crogan & John Potts