Dear all, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies has recently re-launched its book reviews section! I’m the new Book Reviews Editor and welcome expressions of interest from people wanting to review relevant titles. Some recently published books that are up for grabs include: *Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection (2018), by Nancy Baym *The Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information (2017), by Paul Dourish *Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (2018), by Virginia Eubanks *Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (2017), by Marie Hicks *The Qualified Self: Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life (2018), by Lee Humphreys *Feminism, Labour, and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife (2015), by Kylie Jarrett *Post, Mine, Repeat: Social Media Data Mining Becomes Ordinary (2016), by Helen Kennedy *Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (2018), by Safiya Umoja Noble *A Networked Self (any from the series), edited by Zizi Papacharissi *The Ambivalent Internet: Mischief, Oddity, and Antagonism Online (2017), by Whitney Phillips and Ryan M Milner *Actionable Media: Digital Communication Beyond the Desktop (2018), by John Tinnell Please email me at y.gerrard@sheffield.ac.uk <mailto:y.gerrard@sheffield.ac.uk> if you would like to review any of the above titles (or others, though some reviews are already underway). The reviews are expected to be between 500-1000 words in length, and reviewers will receive a hard or electronic copy of the book. Best wishes, Ysabel -- Dr. Ysabel Gerrard, Lecturer in Digital Media & Society BA Digital Media & Society Programme Leader Department of Sociological Studies / Faculty of Social Sciences Book Reviews Editor for Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. Latest paper: Beyond the hashtag: Circumventing content moderation on social media. New Media & Society. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1461444818776611 <http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1461444818776611> Latest press: https://www.wired.com/story/how-pro-eating-disorder-posts-evade-social-media... <https://www.wired.com/story/how-pro-eating-disorder-posts-evade-social-media-filters/>