Hello- Just a quick question. I may be interested in pitching a book review, but I'm wondering what time frame you are looking for from contributors. Thank you... Randall Livingstone On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 9:24 PM James A Hodges via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Greetings!
Please excuse my cross-posting. I am the Book Reviews Editor for Information & Culture (https://www.infoculturejournal.org/). I’m writing because we are currently looking for new book reviewers.
Reviews are generally around 1,000 words in length, written for a broad academic audience.
If you’re interested, please email reviews@ischool.utexas.edu with your area of expertise and any other relevant information. You are free to pitch any book within the areas of information, media, and communication (published within the last year), or to express interest in one of the titles below. I look forward to working with you!
Here are some titles that we are currently looking to assign:
“The Affect Lab: The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion” By Grant Bollmer https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-affect-lab
“Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition” by Wendy Chun https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/discriminating-data
“The Smart Mission: NASA's Lessons for Managing Knowledge, People, and Projects” by Edward J. Hoffman, Matthew Kohut and Laurence Prusak https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262046886/
“Media Ruins: Cambodian Postwar Media Reconstruction and the Geopolitics of Technology” by Margaret Jack https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545389/media-ruins/
“The Private is Political: Networked Privacy on Social Media” By Alice Marwick https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300229622/the-private-is-political/
"Resisting AI: an Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence" by Dan McQuillan https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai
“Soundtracked Books from the Acoustic Era to the Digital Age: A Century of ‘Books That Sing’” By Justin St. Clair
“The Philosopher of Palo Alto: Mark Weiser, Xerox PARC, and the Original Internet of Things” By John Tinnell https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo194495767.html
If you’re interested in reviewing any of these books, or in pitching another recent title, please contact us at reviews@ischool.utexas.edu.
Best wishes, James
-- *JAMES A. HODGES, PH.D. *(he/him/his) Assistant Professor San José State University School of Information http://www.jameshodges.net
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