Hello AoIR-ers, I'm beginning to put together an edited collection of previously published essays on critical software studies. Topics to be addressed include open source software, free software, experimental or 'speculative' software, search engines/portals, privacy, the browser wars, software standards/governance, political economy of software preferences, etc. Please email me *offlist* with comments and feedback (suggestions for essays to include), and most importantly if you would adopt such a book for a course you teach (please provide as much detail as possible). Much appreciated. -Greg Greg Elmer, PhD Bell Globemedia Research Chair Director, Infoscape Research Lab, www.infoscapelab.ca Rogers Communications Centre/School of Radio-TV Arts Ryerson University 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario Canada M5B 2K3 416-979-5282 _______________________________________________ Co-Editor, Space and Culture: An International Journal of Social Spaces http://www.carleton.ca/space/