The request from the conveners of last year’s ANZCA conference to Global Media Journal (Australian Edition) to publish a selection of papers is a welcome development for our journal. In now our eighth year of publication, we sense that we have made a significant contribution to the communication and media studies community in Australia.

The ANZCA theme at Swinburne was ‘The digital and the social: communication for inclusion and exchange’. Dr. Diana Bossio and her team at Swinburne University, Melbourne, have edited an excellent selection of papers, and we thank Dr. Bossio for thinking of GMJ/AU for this opportunity to showcase ANZCA scholarship at this time.

As usual I acknowledge the great effort of the GMJ/AU editorial team for their production work on this issue especially Myra Gurney, Antonio Castillo and Roman Goik.

Our next issue is underway and will feature a special section edited by Dr. Abby Lopes and Dr. Alison Gill from the University of Western Sydney’s Bachelor of Design program. The special issue will be based on a selection of papers from the ‘Initiating Change by Design’ symposium held at UWS Parramatta campus in 2014.

Hart Cohen