[Air-l] new reviews in cyberculture studies (april 2005)

[david silver]

New reviews (found at http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/) include:

Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information, edited by Robert Mitchell & Phillip 
Thurtle (Routledge, 2003)
Reviewed by Dan Wright, a doctoral student at the University of Illinois 
Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences. Wright is interested in 
questions related to bioinformatics tool development -- specifically, the 
problems in keeping computer science tools grounded in realities of the life 
sciences so that they remain relevant and useful.
Author Response:  Robert Mitchell and Phillip Thurtle

Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary after Film, edited by Jeffrey Shaw & 
Peter Weibel  (MIT Press, 2003)
Reviewed by Bob Rehak, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication 
and Culture at Indiana University, Bloomington. Rehak's work has appeared in 
The Video Game Theory Reader (Routledge, 2003) and the journal Information, 
Communication and Society (2003). He is currently writing a dissertation about 
special effects.

The Network Society, by Darin Barney (Polity Press, 2004)
Reviewed by Alison Powell, a Ph.D. student in the Joint Programme in 
Communications at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Powell conducts 
research on the use of public internet access points and the social 
construction of WiFi technology by community wireless groups. She has presented 
her work in Canada, the United States, and the UK.

Women and Media in the Middle East: Power Through Self-Expression, edited by 
Naomi Sakr (I.B.Tauris, 2004)
Reviewed by Rasha A. Abdulla, an Assistant Professor at the Journalism and Mass 
Communication Department at the American University in Cairo. Abdulla's Ph.D. 
is from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, and her research 
interests include the uses and effects of new media, particularly the Internet. 
She is the author of the Arabic text The Internet in Egypt and the Arab World 
(Afaq Publications, 2005).

Enjoy.

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

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