[Sigifp-l] new MIT Press book series of interest to ASIST

[Richard Hill]

[Posted by request.  Dick Hill]

An important new book series from The MIT Press

INFORMATION POLICY

Edited by Sandra Braman and Paul T. Jaeger

Information policy provides the context for, and thus affects, all 
communication, interactions, and social processes. The parametric functions
of information policy at the boundaries of social, knowledge, and
technological systems undergoing change are particularly
significant during this period of transformations in law-state-society 
relations.

The MIT Press Information Policy Book Series will advance scholarly 
discussion about and offer ideas for addressing significant information
policy problems. 

The Series broadly defines information policy as all laws, regulations,
policies and decision-making principles that affect any form of information
creation, processing, flows, access, and use. It encompasses
not only the formal decisions, decision-making processes, and entities 
of government, but also the formal and informal decisions, decision-making
processes, and entities of private and public sector agents capable of
constitutive effects on the nature of society as well as the cultural habits
and predispositions of governmentality that support and sustain government
and governance. Information policy as defined in this way provides
an umbrella for analyses of those decisions and practices that enable or 
restrict information, communication, and culture - and, conversely, the ways
in which decisions and practices involving information, communication, and
culture shape society itself.

The Series is intensely interdisciplinary and invites manuscripts from 
scholars in any field with an interest in the making, implementation, and
effects of decision-making about information policy.

For information on the submission of proposals and manuscripts, please 
contact the series editors or the publisher.

Sandra Braman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee braman at uwm.edu
Paul T. Jaeger, University of Maryland pjaeger at umd.edu
Marguerite Avery, MIT Press Acquisitions mavery at mit.edu