[Asis-l] Books awaiting reviewers, JASIS&T

[Richard Hill]

Books Awaiting Reviewers
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST)

Updated February 12, 2008

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The following titles await reviewers for the Journal of the American
Society for Information Science and Technology. If you are interested
in reviewing one of the titles, contact Robin Peek, Associate Editor
for Book Reviews, at robin.peek at simmons.edu.

http://web.simmons.edu/~peek/jasistreview.html

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Ambivalence Towards Convergence: Digitalization and Media Change
Edited by Tanja Storsul and Dagny Stuedahl.  Nordicom, 2007
"elucidates a variety of understandings related to the concept of
convergence, and at the same time reflects on the analytical advantage
of the concept. The contributions discuss the impact of media
digitalization and the degree to which the prospects of convergence
have been realized."

Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, v.42
Edited by Blaise Cronin. ASIS&T, 2008
"includes several chapters on topics of longstanding interest to the
field.  Regular ARIST readers will not be surprised to see a section
devoted to information seeking and retrieval, or chapters reviewing
developments in knowledge management and education for information
science.  Coverage of syndromic surveillance systems and education
informatics takes us in somewhat newer directions, as does the section
on academic disciplines."  TOC at http://www.asis.org/Publications/ARIST/vol42.php

Digital Citizenship: the Internet, society and participation
Karen Mossberger, et al.  The MIT Press, 2008
"digital citizens are online daily.  By focusing on frequent use, they
reconceptualize debates about the digital divide to include both the
means and the skills to participate online?examines three aspects of
participation in society online: economic opportunity, democratic
participation, and inclusion in prevailing forms of communication."

Facebook: the Missing Manual
E.A. Vander Veer. O'reilly Media, 2008
"The Missing Manual gives you a crystal clear and entertaining look at
everything this fascinating Facebook phenomenon has to offer."

Fundamentals of Information Studies: Understanding information and its
environment   2d ed
June Lester and Wallace C. Koehler, Jr. Neal-Shuman, 2008
"combine theory and everyday examples to provide a broad-based
introduction to the field?our focus here is on human information
activity?we strive to connect current information institutions to
their historical roots and with their cultural, political, and
economic settings."

Handbook of Latent Semantic Analysis
Edited by Thomas K. Landauer, et al.  Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007
"LSA has been highly successful both as a theory of verbal meaning and
cognition and as a practical tool for measuring similarities and
differences of meaning?thorough introduction to the rationale and
theory underlying LSA"

Understanding Technological Innovation: A socio-technical approach
Patrice Flichy. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008
"...will be essential reading for advanced teaching and research
training in the fields of science and technology studies, and media
and communication studies."

Wikipedia: the Missing Manual
John Broughton, O'Reilly Media, 2008
"...gives you practical advice on creating articles and collaborating
with fellow editors, improving existing articles, and working with the
Wikipedia community to review new articles, mediate disputes, and
maintain the site."