List members may be interested to know that a copy of Caroline Haythornthwaite's paper published in the current issue of Information, Communication & Society (8.2. 2005) is available to be downloaded at: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/webcast <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/webcast> as a realmedia file. You will also find a recorded interview with Caroline undertaken by Christian Sandvig where she discusses the principle issues of the paper. Full contents of iCS 8.2 are listed below for information. Brian D. Loader, Editor, Information, Communication & Society, CIRA, University of Teesside, Borough Road, Middlesbrough, Tees Valley TS1 3BA, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 1642 342348 Fax: +44 (0) 1642 342711 b.d.loader@tees.ac.uk www.infosoc.co.uk CONTENTS Editorial Comment PAPERS Caroline Haythornthwaite Social Networks and Internet Connectivity Effects. Denise Carter Living In Virtual Communities: An Ethnography of Human Relationships in Cyberspace. Darren Holloway The Digital Divide in Sydney: A Socio-Spatial Analysis. Darren Purcell The Military in the Noosphere: NCT Adoption and Website Development in the Slovenian Ministry of Defence. Martin Harris ICT and Institutional Change at the British Library. PRIVACY AND SURVEILLANCE SERIES Charles Raab and David Intro Mason Adam Warren and James Data Protection Legislation in the United Kingdom: From Dearnley Development to Statute 1970-1984 BOOK REVIEWS The Digital Divide Is Dead, Long Live The Digital Divides. A Review Article of K Mossberger, C Tolbert 'Virtual inequality: Beyond the Digital Divide'. and M Stansbury Reviewed by Neil Selwyn Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick 'The New Media Reader' Montfort (eds) Reviewed by Ravi Srinivas Krishna James Cornford and Neil Pollock 'Putting the University Online: Information Technology and Organizational Change' Reviewed by Pat Maier Jean Aitchison and Diana M Lewis 'New Media Language' (eds) Reviewed by Stephen Coleman Colin J Bennett and Charles D Raab 'The Governance of Privacy: Policy Instruments in Global Perspective' Reviewed by Duncan Langford Joseph Turow and Andrea L 'The Wired Homestead: An MIT Press Source Kavaneugh (eds) Book on the Internet and the Family' Reviewed by Jan Brace-Govan Jenny Pickerill 'Cyberprotest: Environmental Activism Online' Reviewed by Paul Reynolds