This may be of interest and possible use to some AoIR list members (apologies for cross postings). Wadsworth has just published a reader I edited on new media and cyberculture issues titled Living in the Information Age: A New Media Reader (ISBN 0-534-59049-7). There are selections from Meyrowitz, Fidler, Horton & Wohl, Rushkoff, McChesney, Gerbner, Turkle, Gleick, December, Oppenheimer (Todd), Stoll, Shenk, Ullman, Rheingold, Barlow, Brin, Katz, and others--64 readings in all. The collection traces the development, surveys the literature, and explores the impact of new technologies on the media landscape, examining both conceptual and practical aspects of life in an information society. The 64 articles comprising this reader examine the utopian promises of technology's true believers, and the dystopian views of technology's critics, all the while exploring how the media industries are being transformed through digital convergence and corporate concentration. Each reading is prefaced with a short introduction and three questions for discussion. At the end are suggestions for further research and a minimum of three related Web pages. The text is undergraduate-oriented, although it may be of use in some master's level courses. A Web page for the reader has been posted by Wadsworth at: http://www.newtexts.com/book.cfm?book_id=271 Cheers, Erik __________________ Erik P. Bucy, Ph.D. tel 812-856-5207 Assistant Professor fax 812-855-7955 Dept. of Telecommunications 1229 E. 7th Street Indiana University ebucy@indiana.edu Bloomington, IN 47405-5501 http://php.indiana.edu/~ebucy