*** feel free to distribute *** 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: Chong-En Bai & Chi-Wa Yuen (Eds.), Technology and the New Economy (MIT Press, 2003) Susan B. Barnes, Online Connections: Internet Interpersonal Relationships (Hampton Press, 2001) Bernard Batinic, Ulf-Dietrich Reips, & Michael Bosnjak (Eds.), Online Social Sciences (Hogrefe & Huber Pub, 2002) Michael H. Birnbaum (Ed.), Psychological Experiments on the Internet (Academic Press, 2000) Sharon K. Black, Telecommunications Law in the Internet Age (Morgan Kaufmann, 2001) Jonah Blank, Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity Among the Daudi Bohras (University of Chicago Press, 2002) Jayne Gackenbach (Ed.), Psychology and the Internet : Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Transpersonal Implications (Academic Press, 1998) Kevin A. Hill & John E. Hughes, Cyberpolitics (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, 1998) Shanthi Kalathil & Taylor C. Boas, Open Networks, Closed Regimes: The Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003) Kevin Kawamoto, Media and Society in the Digital Age (Allyn & Bacon, 2002) Sandeep Krishnamurthy, E-Commerce Management: Text and Cases (South-Western College Pub, 2002) David M. Levy, Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age (Arcade Publishing, 2001) Geert Lovink, Uncanny Networks : Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia (MIT Press, 2003) Martha McCaughey & Michael D. Ayers (Eds.), Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2003) John Durham Peters, Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication (University of Chicago Press, 2000) Steven Poole, Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution (Arcade Publishing, 2000) Diana Saco, Cybering Democracy: Public Space and the Internet (Univ of Minnesota Press, 2002) Gitte Stald & Thomas Tufte (Eds.), Global Encounters: Media and Cultural Transformation (University of Luton Press, July 2002) Joseph Tabbi, Cognitive Fictions (Univ of Minnesota Press, 2002) Phillip Thurtle & Robert E. Mitchell (Eds.), Semiotic Flesh: Information and the Human Body (University of Washington Press, 2002) Darren Tofts, Annemarie Jonson, & Alessio Cavallaro (Eds.), Prefiguring Cyberculture: An Intellectual History (MIT Press, 2003) Barry Wellman & Caroline A. Haythornthwaite (Eds.), The Internet in Everyday Life (Blackwell Publishers, 2003) 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 (please select only one) of these titles, respond directly to Adrienne Massanari <alm2@u.washington.edu>. IMPORTANT: In your e-mail, please include your name, affiliation, and a brief statement of your qualifications to review the selected title. DEADLINE for expressing interest in reviewing a book: MAY 31, 2003. Thank you for your time, david silver http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver