Hi all, I'm happy to announce the publication of my new book on *MIT Press. *The book is called *A Billion Little Pieces: RFID and Infrastructures of Identification, *and in it I analyze the infrastructures of the Internet of Things and makes the argument that our world is already filled with communicative objects; it’s just that many of them are more mundane than we were led to expect. In particular, I’m interested in exploring just where so much of the data that shapes the world comes from. I think of it like an extended form of documentation that looks at how often invisible technologies of identification shape our world. Hopefully it’s relevant to some of the great tech comm work you all are doing. Oh, and it covers a lot of ground, so there's everything from suway cards to human microchips to the Mark of the Beast. I made the first chapter available for free <https://www.jordanfrith.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Frith_RFIDchapter1.pdf?utm_source=Listserv&utm_medium=email> on my website, so I hope some of you check it out! If you have any questions for me or just want to talk about research, don’t hesitate to reach out. Oh, and here's a link to the Amazon page for the full book. <https://www.amazon.com/Billion-Little-Pieces-Infrastructures-Identification/dp/0262039753> Thank you! -- Jordan Frith, Ph.D. Associate Professor Director of the Digital Media Studies Certificate University of North Texas Department of Technical Communication