Since its inception, the mission of Platform: Journal of Media and Communication has been to provide graduate students and scholars in the early stages of their careers with an outlet for writing and research within the fields of media studies and communication studies. This issue of the journal is guided by these aims, but it also marks a departure from those that precede it. For us, the media gathered under the rubric of "new media" have lost the sheen and the novelty that justified this phrase's exceptionalism and consis- tency as an organizing framework. In our contemporary media situation, this sheen has faded to grey (Fuller and Go.rey, 2012). This begs the question: what are media today if these media are not – or are no longer – new. What meaning can this reference to the "new" have, at a time when the production of tech- nological novelty is a constant. (see Wark 2013; Sutherland 2014). We think that this disseverment of media from the new generates a gap in media and communications studies, separating the latter from their working, vernacular conceptions of their eponymous terms
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