Electronic Literature Organization

Washington University’s Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (RCCS) presents three new book reviews this month:

–Basque Cyberculture: From Digital Euskadi to Cybereuskalherria (University of Nevada: Center for Basque Studies, 2006), Andoni Alonso and Inaki Arzoz, reviewed by Loykie Lomine, with a response from Andoni Alonso;

–Biomedia (University of Minnesota Press, 2004), Eugene Thacker, reviewed by Pramod K. Nayar, with a response from Eugene Thacker;

–Applied Ethics in Internet Research (Trondheim, Norway: NTNU University Press, 2003), May Thorseth, editor, reviewed by Ted M. Coopman.

In this issue of ebr, the “waves” thread features essays on “Feminisms: Post, Past, and Present,” introduced by Elizabeth Joyce.

The “critical ecologies” thread includes a review of Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture and Our Public Needs.

In “end construction,” another response to Lori Emerson’s November 2005 review of Walter Benn Michaels.

“electropoetics” offers Luc Herman and Bart Vervaeck on “Marie Laure-Ryan, Narrative as Virtual Reality”.

Plus reviews of new electronic fictions “Man in the Stretcher,” by Kenneth Bernard, and “Charlie P” by Dick Kalich.

Jeff Rice’s Writing About Cool: Hypertext and Cultural Studies in the Computer Classroom is reviewed by J.M. King at the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies. Other books reviewed include Women and Everyday Uses of the Internet: Agency and Identity (Lang, 2002); Shaping the Network Society: The New Role of Civil Society in Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2004); and Granny@Work: Aging and New Technology on the Job in America.

The New Media Reader (MIT Press, 2003), edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, is reviewed by Ravi Srinivas Krishna in the current issue of Information, Communication and Society (iCS). iCS 8.2 also includes articles by Caroline Haythornthwaite on “Social Networks and Internet Connectivity Effects,” Denise Carter on “Living in Virtual Communities: An Ethnography of Human Relationships in Cyberspace,” and more.

Among the new Reviews in Cyberculture Studies of interest to the eliterature community:

–John F. Barber and John Carr on Anthony G. Wilhelm’s Digital Nation: Toward an Inclusive Information Society (MIT Press, 2004)

–Jessica M. Laccetti on Mari-Laure Ryan’s anthology of essays Narrative Across Media: The Languages of Storytelling (University of Nebraska Press, 2004)

New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for June 2004 is “PODs, Micropayments and Adverts” – a discussion of Lulu.com, BitPass and AdSense by Edward Picot. The Hyperliterature Exchange is an online directory of hyperliterature for sale on the Web, with links to the places where it can be bought. It also publishes reviews and articles.

trAce and Writers for the Future are pleased to announce the winners of New Media Article Writing Competition: Review category – “A Bad Machine Made of Words” by Nick Montfort; Opinion category – “Are cell phones new media? Hybrid communities and collective authorship” by Adriana de Souza e Silva; Process category – “Writing 4 Cyberformance” by Karla Ptacek & Helen Varley Jamieson; Editor’s Choice Award – “Show Me Your Context, Baby: My Love Affair with Blogs” by Kate Baggott; Honourable Mention – “Postcards From Writing” by Sally Pryor.