Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:23:22 -0500 (EST)
From: david silver <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: new reviews in cyberculture (december 2000)
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It's damn cold these days in Washington, DC but somehow, someway the
Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies has managed to publish another
set of book reviews. :)
New reviews (found at http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs) include:
Janet Abbate's Inventing the Internet (MIT Press 1999)
Reviewed by Linda Baughman, Saint Lawrence University;
Peter Lunenfeld's Snap to Grid: A User's Guide to Digital Arts,
Media, and Cultures (MIT Press 2000)
Reviewed by Bryan Alexander, Centenary College of Louisiana.
RCCS is also excited to feature our first review essay:
Review essay of Anthony Wilhelm's Democracy in a Digital Age:
Challenges to Political Life in Cyberspace (Routledge 2000), Elaine
Kamarck and Joseph Nye's Democracy.Com? Governance in a Networked
World (Hollis Publishing 1999), and Richard Davis's The Web Of
Politics: The Internet's Impact on the American Political System
(Oxford University Press 1999)
Reviewed by Philip Howard, Pew Internet & American Life Project &
Northwestern University.
Up and coming reviews include: Laura Kipnis's Bound and Gagged:
Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America; Frederick S. Lane's
Obscene Profits: The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age; and
Andrew L. Shapiro's The Control Revolution: How the Internet Is Putting
Individuals in Charge and Changing the World We Know.
If you or your colleagues are interested in reviewing books for RCCS,
contact us directly at <[log in to unmask]>. As always, please feel free
to forward this message.
Have a great holidays!
david silver
http://www.glue.umd.edu/~dsilver
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