[Air-l] Book Reviews: Call for Reviewers

D. Silver dsilver at u.washington.edu
Tue Oct 2 16:00:20 PDT 2001


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The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies at the University of
Washington <www.com.washington.edu/rccs> invites academics, artists, and
activists to review a new batch of recently received books.  The reviews
reflect a modest attempt to locate critically various contours of the
emerging and interdisciplinary field of cyberculture studies.

Reviewers are sought for the following titles:

Stuart Biegel
Beyond Our Control?: Confronting the Limits of Our Legal System in the Age
of Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2001)

Anne Wells Branscomb
Who Owns Information? From Privacy to Public Access (Basic Books, 1994)

Brenda Danet
Cyberpl at y: Communicating Online (Berg, 2001)

Lisa Gitelman
Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the
Edison Era (Stanford University Press, 2000)

Takahiko Iimura
Observer/Observed, and Other Works of Video Semiology (CD-ROM) (Banff
Centre for the Arts, 1999)

Marsha Kinder, editor
Kids' Media Culture (Duke University Press, 2000)

Brenda Laurel
Utopian Entrepreneur (MIT Press, 2001)

Steven Levy
Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government - Saving Privacy in
the Digital Age (Viking Press, 2001)

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, editor
Vectorial Elevation: Relational Architecture No. 4 (Conaculta, 2000)

Mark Poster
What's the Matter with the Internet? (Univ of Minnesota Press, 2001)

Gregory J. Rattray
Strategic Warfare in Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2001)

Tom Standage
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the
Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers (Berkley Books, 1999)

Ingo Vogelsang & Benjamin M. Compaine, editors
The Internet Upheaval: Raising Questions, Seeking Answers in
Communications Policy (MIT Press, 2000)

In general, RCCS book reviews run about 1500-2000 words. They are offered
to the widest possible community of cyberculture scholars, including
academic scholars from across the disciplines, community activists,
digital artists, teachers, students, explorers, and builders of
cyberculture.

If interested in reviewing one of these titles, respond directly to David
Silver (dsilver at u.washington.edu). In your e-mail, please include your
name, affiliation, and a brief statement of your qualifications to review
the selected title.  DEADLINE: October 10, 2001.

Thank you for your time,

david silver
http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver





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