December 1, 2006
RCCS Reviews Reloaded
The December 2006 RCCS (Resource Center for Cyberclture Studies) book reviews are here, and there are lots. More than twice the usual number of books have been reviewed, and as you might expect, many are on topics close to the hearts of Grand Text Auto:
- Allegories of Communication: Intermedial Concerns from Cinema to the Digital, eds. John Fullerton and Jan Olsson
- Close Reading New Media: Analyzing Electronic Literature, eds. Jan Van Looy and Jan Baetens
- Eloquent Images: Word and Image in the Age of New Media, eds. Mary E. Hocks and Michelle R. Kendrick
- Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds, by Jesper Juul
- How Images Think, by Ron Burnett
- Internet Politics: States, Citizens and New Communication Technologies, by Andrew Chadwick
- Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives of Literacy from the United States, by Cynthia L. Selfe and Gail E. Hawisher
- Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia, eds. Chris Berry, Fran Martin, and Audrey Yue
- My First Recession: Critical Internet Culture in Transition, by Geert Lovink
- Rhetorical Democracy: Discursive Practices of Civic Engagement, by Gerard Hauser and Amy Grim
- The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information Society, by Jan A. G. M. van Dijk
- The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace, by Vincent Mosco
- The Souls of Cyberfolk: Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory, by Thomas Foster
- Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction, by Nick Montfort