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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=SL link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Some of you may be interested in two recently published pieces in the journal <i>tripleC:</i></span><span lang=EN-US> </span><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Communication, Capitalism & Critique </span></i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>that I had a pleasure to work on.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Some of you may already have noticed a recently published interview with the current president of the International Association for Media and Communication and Communication Research, Professor Janet Wasko. We talked especially about the influences on her approach, about her position in the IAMCR, her understanding of how the cultural and media industries work, the political economy approach in media and communication studies, and issues related to the film industry, which she mostly tackles in her own research. Check it out in the current issue of 3C here: <a href="http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/current">http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/current</a> (Vol. 12, No. 1, 2014, pp.: 14-27).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>In the same issue of <i>tripleC</i> I have also published a paper entitled <i>“A Seeping Commodification: The Long Revolution in the Proliferation of Communication Commodities”</i> (<a href="http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/485">http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/485</a>), which can be seen as a continuation of my work on commodification from the <i>Marx is Back</i> special issue of <i>tripleC</i>, which was edited by Vincent Mosco and Christian Fuchs in 2012 (see article <i>“A Note on the Ongoing Processes of Commodification: From the Audience Commodity to the Social Factory”</i>, <a href="http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/409">http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/409</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>I’ll be happy to receive any critical observations on both papers from prospective readers, as I intend to continue my work on the issue of commodification somewhere in the future (you can, of course, send them to my personal e-mail).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Jernej A. Prodnik <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>