(Apologies for cross posting) Dear colleagues, Unfortunately I didn't make it to Toronto, but it seems like the conference was as productive as ever. Thought I should (shamelessly) share some info on my new book with you. Hopefully you'll find it intriguing and useful. Best wishes, Jenny Sundén MATERIAL VIRTUALITIES: APPROACHING ONLINE TEXTUAL EMBODIMENT BY JENNY SUNDÉN Peter Lang Publishing, New York, 2003. What does it mean to be embodied online? What are the conditions of cybersubjectivity? In Material Virtualities, Jenny Sundén explores the rarely acknowledged borderland between typists and textual bodies, speaking and writing, and physicality and imagination in online encounters. Through careful ethnographic investigations of a text-based virtual world called WaterMOO, Sundén shows how texts, bodies, and machines are linked together in ways that demand a new understanding of the writing subject. Drawing on contemporary feminist and queers theory, she questions the opposition between disembodied, high-tech masculinity and embodied, earth-bound femininity, insisting on the need for a radical materialization of cybercultural studies that discloses the 'virtual' as itself embodied. Jenny Sundén is a researcher at INCITE (incubator for critical inquiry into technology and ethnography), Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey. She is a co-author of Digital Borderlands: Cultural Studies of Identity and Interactivity on the Internet (Peter Lang, 2002). She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Communication Studies at Linkoping University, Sweden. _______________________________ Jenny Sundén, Ph.D. INCITE Dep of Sociology University of Surrey UK