AIRers, HAPPY NEW YEAR! may peace emerge -- somehow, someway -- in 2003. *** feel free to distribute *** New Book Reviews in Cyberculture Studies (January 2003) Each month, the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (RCCS) <http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs> publishes a number of full-length book reviews. The reviews reflect a modest attempt to locate critically various contours of the emerging and interdisciplinary field of cyberculture studies. New reviews for January 2003 include: David Bell, An Introduction to Cybercultures (Routledge, 2001) Reviewed by Tama Leaver. Charles Ess & Fay Sudweeks, eds, Culture, Technology, Communication: Towards an Intercultural Global Village (SUNY Press, 2001) Reviewed by Michel J. Menou, with a response from Charles Ess and Fay Sudweeks. James E. Katz & Mark Aakhus, eds, Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance (Cambridge University Press, 2002) Reviewed by Tim Detwiler, Scott Campbell, and Wendy Robinson, with a response from Mark Aakhus and James E. Katz. UPCOMING REVIEWS include: Lisa Nakamura's Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet; Eileen Green and Alison Adam, eds., Virtual Gender: Technology, Consumption and Identity; and Ronald E. Rice and James E. Katz, eds., The Internet and Health Communication: Experiences and Expectations. If you or your colleagues are interested in reviewing books for RCCS, contact us directly at <dsilver@u.washington.edu>. As always, please feel free to forward this message. david silver http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver To SUBSCRIBE to cyberculture-announce, a low volume announcement list for RCCS events and updates, email: listproc@u.washington.edu; No subject is needed. In the body, type: subscribe cyberculture-announce