Dear AoIR Colleagues, I am extremely happy to announce the publication of my book: The Media Environment of Political Thought: Rousseau, Marx and the Politics of Selfies (Lexington Books). The book offers a novel way of looking at the tradition of political thought by reconstructing the historical media landscapes in which great political texts of the past were produced. It brings to light the little-charted media environments in which three political innovators— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, and Fredrich Engels operated. It analyzes how those media environments shaped the three thinkers’ intellectual growth and how they used their media settings to communicate their groundbreaking ideas. The historical analysis is followed by a critical reflection on the future of political thought in the age of computer mediated communication. Together, the three studies presented in this book take the reader to three revolutionary moments— revolutionary in politics and in media—with the aim of tracing the reciprocal relations between landmark historical media settings and pioneering political perspectives. The book is available at: Lexington Press: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498532938/The-Media-Environment-of-Political-Tho... (Special 30% discount offer! Use LEX30AUTH17 when ordering) Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Media-Environment-Political-Thought-Rousseau/dp/14985... Best, Asaf Y. Shamis History School University of Haifa ajshamis@gmail.com