New reviews (found at http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/) include: Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information, edited by Robert Mitchell & Phillip Thurtle (Routledge, 2003) Reviewed by Dan Wright, a doctoral student at the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences. Wright is interested in questions related to bioinformatics tool development -- specifically, the problems in keeping computer science tools grounded in realities of the life sciences so that they remain relevant and useful. Author Response: Robert Mitchell and Phillip Thurtle Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary after Film, edited by Jeffrey Shaw & Peter Weibel (MIT Press, 2003) Reviewed by Bob Rehak, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, Bloomington. Rehak's work has appeared in The Video Game Theory Reader (Routledge, 2003) and the journal Information, Communication and Society (2003). He is currently writing a dissertation about special effects. The Network Society, by Darin Barney (Polity Press, 2004) Reviewed by Alison Powell, a Ph.D. student in the Joint Programme in Communications at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Powell conducts research on the use of public internet access points and the social construction of WiFi technology by community wireless groups. She has presented her work in Canada, the United States, and the UK. Women and Media in the Middle East: Power Through Self-Expression, edited by Naomi Sakr (I.B.Tauris, 2004) Reviewed by Rasha A. Abdulla, an Assistant Professor at the Journalism and Mass Communication Department at the American University in Cairo. Abdulla's Ph.D. is from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, and her research interests include the uses and effects of new media, particularly the Internet. She is the author of the Arabic text The Internet in Egypt and the Arab World (Afaq Publications, 2005). Enjoy. david silver http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver To SUBSCRIBE to cyberculture-announce, a low volume announcement list for RCCS events and updates, email: listproc@u.washington.edu; No subject is needed. In the body, type: subscribe cyberculture-announce