hello! following a summer sabbatical, RCCS ( http://rccs.usfca.edu/booklist.asp ) book reviews are back! the books of the month for september 2007 are: An Alternative Internet Author: Chris Atton Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2005 Reviewed by: Paul Booth, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA Author Response: Chris Atton, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK Ars Electronica: Facing the Future: A Survey of Two Decades Editor: Timothy Druckery Publisher: MIT Press, 1999 Reviewed by: Carolyn Kane, New York University, NY, USA Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines Author: Mark Poster Publisher: Duke University Press, 2006 Reviewed by: Diana Bossio, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia Author Response: Mark Poster, University of California, Irvine, USA enjoy. coming soon: full-length book reviews of Cybersounds: Essays on Virtual Music Culture; Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder; From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism; Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture; Hanging Out in the Virtual Pub: Masculinities and Relationships Online; Residual Media; Social Consequences of Internet Use: Access, Involvement, and Interaction; The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television; The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship; Uses of Blogs; and many, many more. david silver http://silverinsf.blogspot.com/