[Air-L] Internet Histories Seeking Book Reviewers

[Maemura, Emily]

Dear AoIR community,

I'm the Reviews Editor for the journal Internet Histories (https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rint20) and we are seeking book reviewers. Our book reviews are generally between 1500 and 2000 words, focused on titles related to the cultural, social, political and technological histories of the internet and associated digital cultures.

For instance, we are currently looking for reviewers for the following titles:

- Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond, Tamara Kneese https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
- The Digital Departed: How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality, Timothy Recuber https://nyupress.org/9781479814961/the-digital-departed/
- Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age behind the Iron Curtain, Victor Petrov https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545129/balkan-cyberia/
- The Piracy Years: Internet File Sharing in a Global Context, Holger Briel, Michael D. High, and Markus Heidingsfelder (eds.) https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781802070545
- The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age Thomas S Mullaney https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047517/the-chinese-computer/
- The Digital Revolution: A Short History of an Ideology, Gabriele Balbi https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-digital-revolution-9780198875970?cc=us&lang=en&
- A History of Fake Things on the Internet, Walter Scheirer https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781503632882/a-history-of-fake-things-on-the-internet/
- WhatsApp: From a one-to-one Messaging App to a Global Communication Platform, Amelia Johns, Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Emma Baulch https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=9781509550517

If you're interested in being added to the list of potential reviewers for these or other books in the future, please get in touch with me at emaemura at illinois.edu<mailto:emaemura at illinois.edu> . Please also note that we do not accept unsolicited reviews, so please reach out to me first -- we may decline a reviewer or book title if determined to not be a good fit for our journal.

Best,

Emily Maemura

Assistant Professor
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
School of Information Sciences


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