It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the inaugural issue of The Journal of e-Media Studies. We intend this journal to provide an avenue for both traditional and emergent forms of scholarship about electronic media, their histories, and theoretical work related to these media.

Within the issue, you will find new scholarly work that is blind peer-reviewed (the entries labelled as Essays), plus various other entries that help to demarcate the range of materials we will pursue. The essays themselves begin to illustrate some of this latitude: from the analysis of an interactive work by a major figure in documentary and essayistic cinema (Chris Marker); to work on new "literary" forms enabled and afforded by digital media (e-poetry); to on-line scholarship that raises challenges to underlying precepts of disciplinary methodology (Folkvine). The additional, non-peer reviewed materials extend our focus of attention to book and conference reviews, a professional rememberance, an editorial (understood to be the opinions of the author, rather than those of the Editorial Board or of Dartmouth College), and an extended conversation with an esteemed colleague. I am so pleased that our first such conversation is with Horace Newcomb, a founding figure in the development of the study of Popular Culture in the U.S., and Television Studies in particular. We intend to continue and broaden these areas of scholarly attention in subsequent issues