Dear AoIRists, (Shameless self-promotion): As some of you know, I've been working on a textbook titled _Digital Media Ethics_. (Happy AoIR promostion): The book features the work of many AoIR colleagues, including Elizabeth Buchanan, Dan Burk, Mia Consalvo, Bernhard Debatin, Marie-Christine Deyrich, Niels Øle Finnemann, Lorna Heaton, Chris Helland, Susan Herring, Connie Kampf, Leah Macfadyen, Susanna Paasonen, Daniel Pimienta, Miguel Sicart, Fay Sudweeks, and Maya van der Velden. I'm also very happy to acknowledge (as I do in the book) the generous assistance of Mia Consalvo, Susanna Paasonen, and Miguel Sicart particularly with regard to the chapter on games and pornograpy. Best of all, I'm happy to say that the volume is now scheduled to be published by Polity Press in late February, 2009. Here's the blurb: == This is the first textbook on the central ethical issues of digital media, ranging from computers and games to the Internet and mobile phones. It is also the first book of its kind to consider these issues from a global perspective, introducing ethical theories from multiple cultures. It further utilizes examples from around the world, such as the publication of ³the Mohammed Cartoons²; diverse understandings what ³privacy² means in Facebook or MySpace; why pirating CDs and DVDs may be justified in developing countries; and culturally-variable perspectives on sexuality and what counts as ³pornography.² Readers and students thus acquire a global perspective on the central ethical issues of digital media, including privacy, copyright, pornography and violence, and the ethics of cross-cultural communication online. The book is designed for use across disciplines ­ media and communication studies, computer science and informatics, as well as philosophy. It is up-to-date, accessible and student- and classroom-friendly: each topic and theory is interwoven throughout the volume with detailed sets of questions that foster careful reflection, writing, and discussion into these issues and their possible resolutions. Each chapter further includes additional resources and suggestions for further research and writing. == There will also be a website affiliated with the text where faculty and students will be able to contribute examples, additional exercises, etc. - and I'm also looking forward to 2.0, with expanded material on mobile phones (working on that now -suggestions, comments, resources, etc. much appreciated!). Two things: 1) I'm happy to share a pre-publication version of the book (with the usual caveats re. no copying, citation, or distribution without permission) with colleagues who may be interested in having a look at the text - ideally, with a view towards "road-testing" one or two of the chapters and its exercises in their own teaching. If you would like to see this version of the book, please let me know offlist and I'll happily send the PDF your way. 2) I've also been asked by the publisher to develop a list of colleagues who might be interested in adopting the book in their teaching. Again, if anyone on this list is interested in reviewing the pre-publication version with this possibility in mind, I'd be happy to send the PDF along. Of course, if you can think of anyone else who might be interested in reviewing and possibly adopting the text, please let me know. Again, my thanks to so many colleagues in AoIR who helped with this book one way or another - and for AoIR's larger environment of interdisciplinary discussion, including ethics, beginning with the AoIR ethics working committee and extending to conference panels and threads on this list, that has been so helpful, fruitful, and enjoyable. All best wishes in the meantime, - charles ess