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Preface

The editorial for the 2011 McMaster Journal of Communication issue on communities, publics and communication. The editorial presents the five articles contained in the issue ( “Redefining Gatekeeping Theory for a Digital Generation.” Lianne Chin-Fook and Heather Simmonds; “‘That Worries Me’: Affective and Rhetorical Framing in News Programming of The O’Reilly Factor”, Joey Brooke Jakob; “Public sphere, alternative media and social involvement in Belarus: The role of an individual in history”, Nataliya Lesnikova; “The Politics of Transparency”, Robyn Lew; “Creating Cellular Vision: Cell Phone Photography and the (Shifting) Photographic Eye”, Robert Vitulano) and acknowledges the help of the editorial committee members, Alyssa Lai and Christine Larabie; as well as that of faculty editor, Dr. Alex Sévigny.