hello! an excellent new batch of RCCS book reviews ( http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/booklist.asp ) this month: [1] Matthew Fuller, Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture (MIT Press, 2005) Reviewed by Virgil Moberg, an assistant professor of Journalism and Mass Communications in the Humanities Division at Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Florida [2] Larry Gross, John Stuart Katz, & Jay Ruby, eds. Image Ethics in the Digital Age (University of Minnesota Press, 2003) Reviewed by Lane DeNicola, a doctoral candidate in Science & Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a lecturer in Digital Technology & Culture at Washington State University Vancouver [3] Mark D. Johns, Shing-Ling Sarina Chen, & G. Jon Hall, eds. Online Social Research: Methods, Issues, and Ethics (Peter Lang Publishers, 2004) Reviewed by Jakob Linaa Jensen, an assistant professor at the Department of Media Studies, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Author response by Mark D. Johns, ELCA Pastor, associate professor, and head of the Department of Communication Studies, Luther College [4] Christophe Lecuyer, Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High-Tech, 1930-1970 (MIT Press, 2006) Reviewed by Michelle Rodino-Colocino, an assistant professor of Communication at the University of Cincinnati [5] Madanmohan Rao, ed. News Media and New Media: The Asia-Pacific Internet Handbook, Episode V (Eastern Universities Press, 2003) Reviewed by Yu Zhang, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the State University of New York at Geneseo Author response by Madanmohan Rao coming soon ... reviews of Chris Berry, Fran Martin, & Audrey Yue's Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia; Viviane Serfaty's The Mirror and the Veil: An Overview of American Online Diaries and Blogs; Steven Shaviro's Connected, or What It Means to Live in the Network Society; and Bruce Sterling's Shaping Things. enjoy. david silver http://silverinseattle.blogspot.com/