On behalf of my co-author, Sean Lawson, I'm happy to announce that our book Social Engineering: *How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a New Form of Manipulative Communication* is now available from MIT Press. It's available as a paperback as well as open access -- see https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/social-engineering for more details. AOIR has influenced my career tremendously, and I think this book demonstrates how. The book starts with what we're all stressed about right now -- disinformation, misinformation, conspiracy theories, and manipulative communication in digital media. We then use critical genealogical methods to help pick apart manipulative communication. We turn to two moments in 20th century history -- early 20th century propaganda and public relations, and mid-20th century phone phreak and hacker con artistry -- to glean concepts. We ultimately argue that today's digital media disinformation is a mix of mass and interpersonal manipulation, what we call "masspersonal social engineering" (MPSE). The book is, for better or worse, focused largely on American media and hacker history. It's the context the two of us know best. That said, we've observed elements of MPSE in the response to the pandemic, Canadian truck convoy protests, and the disinformation campaigns happening during the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, so I believe the book's concepts can travel to other contexts. Regards, Rob -- Robert W. Gehl (he/him/his) F Jay Taylor Endowed Research Chair of Communication, Louisiana Tech Fulbright Scholar www.robertwgehl.org | @robertwgehl PGP Key: https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&fingerprint=on&search=0xE4E01... Sent from our OS on our Internet