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

Steering Committee
Jonathan Aronson Director, Annenberg Research Network on International Communication
Professor, Annenberg School and International Relations
bio - web site
François Bar Associate Professor, Communication, Annenberg School
bio - web site - blog:abaporu.net
Manuel Castells Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society, Annenberg School
bio
Jeff Cole Director, Center for the Digital Future, Annenberg School
bio
Hernan Galperin Associate Professor, Communication, Annenberg School
and Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires
bio - web site
Jonathan Taplin Lecturer, Annenberg School
CEO, Intertainer
bio - web site
 
Visiting Fellows
Márcio Iorio Aranha Professor, Universidade de Brasilia, School of Law and Centre for Policy, Law, Economics and Technologies of Telecommunications.
bio
Walter Baer Rand Corporation
bio
Students
Amelia Arsenault PhD Student, Annenberg School for Communication
bio
Melissa Brough PhD Student, Annenberg School for Communication
bio
Jae Chung PhD Student, Annenberg School for Communication
Sasha Costanza-Chock PhD Student, Annenberg School for Communication
Fan Dong PhD Student, Annenberg School for Communication
Seungyoon Lee

PhD Student, Annenberg School for Communication
bio

Zhan Li PhD Student, Annenberg School for Communication
Jade Miller

PhD Student, Annenberg School for Communication
bio

Lauren Movius PhD Student, Annenberg School for Communication
bio
Jake Peters PhD Student, Geography Department, USC
web page
Araba Sey
 
PhD Student, Annenberg School for Communication
bio
Cara Wallis PhD Student, Annenberg School for Communication
Research Network Members
Yochai Benkler Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society
bio - http://www.benkler.org/
Gustavo Cardoso

Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE)
bio

Martin Cave Director, Centre for Management under Regulation, Warwick Business School
Vint Cerf Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
Arul Chib Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Peter Cowhey Professor and Dean Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego
Mireia Fernández Ardèvol

Project Internet Catalonia (PIC), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Assistant Professor, Department of Econometrics, Statistics and Spanish Economy, Univesity of Barcelona
bio

John Gage Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office, Sun Microsystems
Mizuko Ito
Research Scientist, Annenberg Center for Communication
http://www.itofisher.com/mito
Michael Kleeman Cal(IT)2
Robin Mansell Dixons Chair in New Media and the Internet, London School of Economics
William J. Mitchell Professor, Head of Media Arts and Science Program, Media Lab, MIT
Francis Pisani Technology Journalist (e Monde, Reforma, El Pais, etc.)
bio - blog: Transnet: des gadgets aux réseaux
Jack Qiu Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong
http://ihome.cuhk.edu.hk/~b200167/
Christian Sandvig Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.niftyc.org
John Seely-Brown Visiting Scholar, Annenberg Center for Communication
Former Xerox Chief Scientist
http://johnseelybrown.com/ 
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Raul Roman 2005-2006 Post-Doctoral Fellow
bio
Nyaki Adeya

Fall 2005 Visiting Scholar
bio

Natascha Just 2004-2005 Post-Doctoral Fellow
bio