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)

Participants
Melissa Brough

Melissa Brough is a PhD student at the Annenberg School for Communication. She received her BA from Brown University in Development Studies and Modern Culture & Media. She subsequently worked in film production and for the organization FilmAid International, a non-profit that uses film and video to promote health, strengthen communities, and enrich the lives of the forcibly displaced. At FilmAid she supported video-based, psychosocial and educational programs as well as participatory video projects in eight refugee camps in East Africa, and youth media projects in the Gulf Coast of the U. S.  She has volunteered with several local and international community media and media literacy projects including the Chiapas Media Project in Mexico, whose work she helped bring to the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Her current research interests center around the visibility of the "Global South," including: how the "developed" world represents the "developing" world in the current era, and to what effect; media portrayals of crisis and aid "beneficiaries"; and participatory media practices.