[Air-L] book announcement

[Nathaniel Poor]

Charles-

The Amazon link you sent lists the book at $US 200 (well ok $199.95 and then a discount, but $200).

Is that accurate?

I know that's the hardcover, but if that's the price how is anyone going to buy it?

Even the Kindle edition is $150.

-Nat.


On Mar 8, 2011, at 12:23 AM, Charles Ess wrote:

> Dear AoIR-ists,
> 
> Mia Consalvo and I are *extremely* proud and pleased to announce the
> publication of the Handbook of Internet Studies from Wiley-Blackwell - first
> of all, because the volume features the impressive work of many AoIRists.
> The book is an introduction to the field and assessment of current research
> in Internet Studies, providing history and context as well as commentary and
> debate about where the field is heading and what key issues must be
> addressed in future work. The volume is comprehensive in scope, addressing
> the development of internet studies in areas including the history of the
> field, methods for interdisciplinary study, youth and teens online,
> politics, health communication, games and virtual worlds, gender, sexuality,
> ethnicity, religion, social networks, and much, much more.
> 
> The list of contributors is even more impressive-- we have contributions
> from Maria Bakardijeva, Naomi Baron, Nancy Baym, Sandra Braman, Janne
> Bromseth, Niels Brügger, Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Elizabeth Buchanan, Heidi
> Campbell, Laurel Dyson, Lorna Heaton, Steve Jones, Lori Kendall, Sonia
> Livingstone, Marika Lüders, P. David Marshall, Susanna Paasonen, Jennifer
> Stromer-Galley, Jenny Sundén, TL Taylor, Barry Wellman, Deborah Wheeler, and
> Alexis Wichowski.
> 
> For more information about the book, please check the Amazon page at:
> <http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Internet-Studies-Handbooks-Communication/dp/
> 1405185880/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299561410&sr=1-1-fkmr0>
> 
> We congratulate these scholars and researchers for what we find to be
> definitive contributions to internet studies as an emerging field.  We also
> see the book as a distinctive and, we think, eloquent artifact of AoIR, as
> it documents and demonstrates the kinds of collaboration, critical dialogue,
> and collegial support fostered by AoIR as crucial conditions for the
> interdisciplinary and international work required for internet studies.  We
> are very grateful indeed to our contributors and all who help make AoIR work
> in these ways for making this volume possible.
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> - charles and Mia
> 
> charles ess
> Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab
> Helsingforsgade 14
> 8200 Århus N.
> Denmark
> mail: <imvce at hum.au.dk>
> tel: (+45) 8942 9250
> 
> Professor, Philosophy and Religion
> Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA
> 
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> 
> 
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Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D.
http://natpoor.blogspot.com/