Commissioned by the American Communication Association"s Board of Directors at the 1996 Annual Convention in historic Charleston, South Carolina, The American Communication Journal is a completely online, blind-reviewed publication, dedicated to the conscientious analysis and criticism of significant communicative artifacts. Appreciating the diversity of research agendas and methodologies in the study of communication, the Co-Editors and Editorial Board of ACJ welcome submissions on any topic related to the discipline. ACJ is unique in that it: (1) is exclusively a world-wide-web (WWW) publication, and (2) therefore provides the scholar with the opportunity to hypertextually reference supporting materials available online.