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
Natascha Just
Natascha Just joins the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication during academic year 2004-2005.

She studied Communication Science and Romance Philology at the Universities of Salzburg and Vienna, Austria, and the Università degli studi di Perugia, Italy. She holds a M.A. in Communication Science/Romance Philology (1997) and a Ph.D. in Communication Science (2001) from the University of Vienna. She was a Research Fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences as part of the research group "European Information Society" (1998-2004), a lecturer for media economics and politics at the Institute for Communication, University of Vienna (2003), and a member of Work Group 5 of COST (European Concerted Research Action) A14: Government and Democracy in the Information Age (2000-2003).

Her research has been published in books and refereed journals such as Telecommunications Policy, Communications & Strategies, and Knowledge, Technology and Policy. She is co-author of the book "Self- and Co-regulation in the Mediamatics Sector. Alternative Regulation between State and Market" (2002, in german). Her current research centers on the transformation of statehood in the convergent communication sector with a special emphasis on changing governance structures, competition policy, and market power control.