Hello, I announced this on AoIRFPTQslistservstserv but thought I would mention it on this list as well. My book on Internet and comspectatorshiporship--The Body and the Screen: Theories of IntSpectatorshiporship--was just published by MIT Press. Many of you have contributed time and suggestions to this project and I want to thank you once again for your support. I thought that it would be of interest toAoIRe AoIR readers because I consider such things as the interface, the use of the term user, how Internet engagements are gendered, the varied forms of Internet work, programmers' embodiment, and the issues surrdemanufacturingr "demanufacturing." In this book, I pose hybrid critical models and suggest how theories of authorship, feminist and psychoanalytic film, gender and queer studies, hypertextpostcolonial, and postcolonial and critical race studies offer ways to understand Ispectatorship and spectatorship. My hope is that the critical models indicated in this book can support ongoing Internet and computer research. I am including full publication details and the table of contents below. I would be happy to answer any questions. All my best, Michele White, Michele. The Body and the Screen: TheSpectatorshiprnet Spectatorship. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. ISBN 0-262-23249-9 The Body, the Screen, and Representations: An Introduction to TheSpectatorshiprnet Spectatorship 1. Making Internet and Computer Spectators IntroducLivenessRendering Liveness, Materiality, and Space Notions of the Empowered User Addressing the Spectator Stabilizing Identity Erasing the Interface Conclusion: Active Users by Design 2. Visual Pleasure through Textual PaMultis: Gazing in Multi-user Object-oMOOsted Settings (MOOs)MOOstroduction MOOs The Look and the Gaze Character Creation MOOsAttributes in MOOs The LooMOOsd the Gaze in MOOs GMOOsred Gazing in MOOs Graphical MOOs Conclusion: Between Multiple and Coherent Identity 3. Too Close to See, Too Intimate a ScreenWebcamsWomen, and Webcams IntroductioSpectatorship and Spectatorship Critical and Journalistic WebcamsratiWebcamsWebcams WebWebcams Women and Webcams Regulating the SWebcamor Women Webcam Operators and Authority Webcamsbility and Webcams Making Texts Real SWebcamoblems with Webcam Viewing Just a Guy Conclusion: The Politics of Being Seen 4. The Aesthetic of Failure: Confusing Spectators with Net Art Gone Wrong Introduction Aesthetics and Net Art Net Art An Aesthetic of FailureLuiningi MichaëlLSamyng Michaël Samyn Conclusion: The Limits of Failure and Repetition 5. Can You Read Me? Setting-specific Meaning in Virtual Places (VP) Introduction Virtual Places Avatars Painters and Avatar Galleries Owning Texts Criteria for Originality Theories of Internet Authorship Gender, Race, Sexuality, and the Avatar Making Differences in Virtual Places Conclusion: Authorship in Other Internet Settings 6. This Is Not Photography, This Is Not a Cohesive View: Computer-facilitated ImagiSpectatorshipnted Spectatorship Introduction Making the Digital Imaging Spectator Photography Digital or Post-photography The Scanner aSelter's Animalia SeltPunctumimalia andSilton's Susan Silton's Self Portraits and Images of the Partial Self Ken Gonzales-Day's Skin Series and the Cut The New Media Grid Conclusion: The Morphed Spectator Afterword The Flat and the Fold: A ConsiderSpectatorshipdied Spectatorship IntrSelteron CaSiltonlter, Susan Silton, Ken Gonzales-Day, and the Fold The Body Folded and Evacuated Hierarchy and Control The Spectator in Pain The Fat and the Fold Men and the Weight Loss "Challenge" Erotic Folding Conclusion: A Technology of Waste