new reviews [ http://rccs.usfca.edu/booklist.asp ] for october 2006: 1. Communication Researchers and Policy-Making Editor: Sandra Braman Publisher: MIT Press, 2003 Review: Amin Alhassan Author Response: Sandra Braman 2. Material Virtualities: Approaching Online Textual Embodiment Author: Jenny Sunden Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing, 2003 Review: Clarissa Lee Author Response: Jenny Sunden 3. Star Trek: Technologies of Disappearance Author: Alan N. Shapiro Publisher: Avinus Verlag, 2004 Review: Radim Hladik Author Response: Alan N. Shapiro 4. Technology and the Dream: Reflections on the Black Experience at MIT, 1941-1999 Author: Clarence G. Williams Publisher: MIT Press, 2003 Review: Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas COMING SOON! reviews of: Computer Mediated Communication: Social Interaction and the Internet; Culture + Technology: A Primer; Eloquent Images: Word and Image in the Age of New Media; Figurski at Findhorn on Acid; Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds; Internet Politics: States, Citizens and New Communication Technologies; Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia; My First Recession: Critical Internet Culture in Transition; Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy; Techno Fashion; The Cinema Effect; The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace; The Mirror and the Veil: An Overview of American Online Diaries and Blogs; and The Souls of Cyberfolk: Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory. enjoy. david silver http://silverinsf.blogspot.com