Information Society Series: An Interdisciplinary Book Series on Technology, Law, and Society

I’m delighted to announce the launch of a new book series I am co-editing with Laura DeNardis, Ph.D, the Executive Director of the Yale Information Society Project:

Information Society Series: An Interdisciplinary Series on Technology, Law, and Society
Series Editors, Laura DeNardis and Michael Zimmer
MIT Press

The Information Society Series publishes original scholarship addressing the social, legal, and political implications of the Internet and new information and communication technologies. The series features empirical and scholarly research from the growing global ranks of interdisciplinary scholars in fields of inquiry such as information studies; communication and media studies; science, technology, and society; and law, technology, and culture.

Publications address contemporary issues and controversies in global information and communication technologies and uncovers the values and interests at stake in the design, implementation, and usage of these technologies. Series publications are grounded in scholarly and empirical inquiry and have a strong normative overlay, seeking to advance new ideas and solutions to global problems in technology and society. Series authors address challenging topics at the intersection of information technology and culture such as privacy, freedom of expression, reputation, knowledge production, accessibility, Internet governance, equality, and identity.

We are accepting book proposals for the series. Preference will be given to monographs rather than edited volumes and books that are interdisciplinary, normative, and global in scope. Book proposals should include:

1. a prospectus (brief description, outstanding features and uniqueness of work, audience and market considerations, status of book, and recommended reviewers);
2. a detailed table of contents;
3. sample chapters; and
4. the author’s curriculum vitae.

Please submit completed proposals to denardis@american.edu and zimmerm@uwm.edu.

Current books in the Information Society Series include:

• Interfaces on Trial 2.0, by Jonathan Band and Masanobu Katoh (2011)
• Opening Standards: The Global Politics of Interoperability, edited by Laura DeNardis (2011)
• The Reputation Society: How Online Opinions Are Reshaping the Offline World, edited by Hassan Masum and Mark Tovey (2012)
• The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright, by Hector Postigo (2012)
• Technologies of Choice? ICTs, Development, and the Capabilities Approach, by Dorothea Kleine (2013)
• Pirate Politics: The New Information Policy Contests, by Patrick Burkart (2014)
• After Access: Inclusion, Development, and a More Mobile Internet, by Jonathan Donner (2015)
• The World Made Meme: Public Conversations and Participatory Media, by Ryan M. Milner (2016)
• The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy, by Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz (2016)
• Digital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community, by Jessa Lingel (2017)
• Protecting Children Online? Cyberbullying Policies of Social Media Companies, by Tijana Milosevic (2018)
• Authors, Users, and Pirates: Copyright Law and Subjectivity, by James Meese (2018)
• Weaving the Dark Web: Legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and I2P, by Robert Gehl (2018)