Announcements

New Book: ARNIC co-founder Jonathan Aronson's new book (with Peter Cowhey of UCSD and now the Senior Counselor at USTR and a contribution by former official Don Abelson) has been published by MIT Press. The book, Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets: The Political Economy of Innovation is available for free download under a Creative Commons license at :  http://www.globalinfoandtelecom.org.  The authors would welcome your comments, criticisms, and corrections.

Recent Book, Edited by Hernan Galperin and Judith Mariscal,Digital Poverty: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives, Practical Action Publishing/IDRC 2007

Recent Book, by Manuel Castells, Mireia Fernandez - Ardevol, Jack Linchuan Qiu and Araba Sey: Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspertive, (MIT Press, 2006) [more info from MIT Press] Now available in Spanish

Recent Book, edited by Manuel Castells and Gustavo Cardoso: The Network Society: From Knowledge to Policy (Washington DC: Johns Hopkins Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2006); also available in Portuguese as A sociedade em Rede: Do Conhecimento à Acção Política, Imprensa Nacional, Casa da Moeda, Lisboa , 2006. Includes chapters by Jonathan Taplin, Jeffrey Cole, Hernán Galperin and François Bar. (free download in both languages)

Recent Book, edited by Hernán Galperin and Judith Mariscal: Digital Poverty: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives
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Research Notes:
Tsunami Field Notes – Phi Phi Island, Thailand
Seungyoon Lee, 23rd July – 28th July, 2005
Mobile Phones for Disaster Preparedness
Arul Chib & Seungyoon Lee, September 2005

Reviews
William Davies, of the Institute for Policy Research, reviews Hernán Galperin's New Television, Old Politics in New Media & Society 7(2)

Annenberg Research Seminar on International Communication

"Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror: Baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism"
François Bar, Francis Pisani and Matt Weber

Annenberg Research Seminar
Geoffrey Cowan Forum (Annenberg Room 207), April 7, 2008, 12 p.m.

Abstract:
The presentation builds on work in progress by Bar, Pisani and Weber that explores the appropriation of communication technologies – how users transform communication systems as they adapt them to their needs, and how they transform their practices around the technologies' capabilities. The specific focus of the talk is on mobile phones, but the underlying theoretical framework applies more broadly. We view the appropriation process as a contest for control over technology configuration and we draw theoretical inspiration from the examination of earlier episodes of cultural appropriation.
For background on the presentation, see http://abaporu.net

presentation slides:

video from the seminar:

(source video available on archive.org)