Hi all, Apologies for the self promotion, but I wanted to announce the publication of my Digital Fandom: New Media Studies, in Peter Lang's Digital Formations series (edited by Steve Jones). Here's the blurb from the back of the book: "This book re-evaluates the way we examine todays digital media environment. By looking at how popular culture uses different digital technologies, Digital Fandom bolsters contemporary media theory by introducing new methods of analysis. Using the exemplars of alternate reality gaming and fan studies, this book takes into account a particular philosophy of playfulness in todays media in order to establish a new media studies. Digital Fandom augments traditional studies of popular media fandom with descriptions of the contemporary fan in a converged media environment. The book shows how changes in the study of fandom can be applied in a larger scale to the study of new media in general, and formulates new conceptions of traditional media theories." Specifically, the book examines Alternate Reality Gaming, blogs, wikis, and social network sites through the lens of fandom, and would be useful for classes in media studies, fandom, and issues of convergence and transmediation. For more information, you can check out a blog interview Henry Jenkins ran with me, here: http://henryjenkins.org/2010/08/args_fandom_and_the_digi-grati. "From blogs to ARGS, wikis to social networking sites, Paul Booth provides to digital in-depth tour of how fans straddle and traverse the boundary between television and media. With a theoretically rich analytic eye, 'Digital Fandom' breaks new ground for the next generation of media scholarship. "(Jason Mittell, Middlebury College, Author of 'Television & American Culture') "In this Web 2.0 world, where content is king and not community, the fan marks a new form of interactive subjectivity that deconstructs the usual categories of consumer and producer. Paul Booth's' Digital Fandom 'breaks new ground in the investigation of this subject, demonstrating how it reorganize and reorient the field of new media studies. "(David J. Gunkel, Presidential Teaching Professor, Northern Illinois University, Author of' Hacking Cyberspace and Thinking Otherwise ') Feel free to write with any questions, Cheers, Paul Booth Paul Booth Assistant Professor College of Communication DePaul University 1 E. Jackson Chicago, IL 60604 312-362-7753