The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies has posted two new reviews of Half-Real: One by Curt Carbonell, one by Randy Nichols. And I have written a short response.
Complete announcement follows:
a new set of book reviews [ http://rccs.usfca.edu/booklist.asp ] from
the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies for December 2006:
1. Allegories of Communication: Intermedial Concerns from Cinema to the
Digital
Editors: John Fullerton & Jan Olsson
Publisher: John Libbey Publishing, 2004
Review 1: Kristen Daly
2. Close Reading New Media: Analyzing Electronic Literature
Editors: Jan Van Looy & Jan Baetens
Publisher: Leuven University Press, 2003
Review 1: Mary Leonard
3. Eloquent Images: Word and Image in the Age of New Media
Editors: Mary E. Hocks & Michelle R. Kendrick
Publisher: MIT Press, 2003
Review 1: Vika Zafrin
Review 2: Alan Razee
Author Response: Mary Hocks
4. Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds
Author: Jesper Juul
Publisher: MIT Press, 2005
Review 1: Curt Carbonell
Review 2: Randy Nichols
Author Response: Jesper Juul
5. How Images Think
Author: Ron Burnett
Publisher: MIT Press, 2004
Review 1: Leanne Stuart Pupchek
Author Response: Ron Burnett
6. Internet Politics: States, Citizens and New Communication Technologies
Author: Andrew Chadwick
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006
Review 1: Viviane Serfaty
Author Response: Andrew Chadwick
7. Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives of Literacy from
the United States
Authors: Cynthia L. Selfe & Gail E. Hawisher
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004
Review 1: Lisa A. Kirby
Author Response: Cynthia L. Selfe & Gail E. Hawisher
8. Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia
Editors: Chris Berry, Fran Martin, Audrey Yue
Publisher: Duke University Press, 2003
Review 1: Terri He
Author Response: Chris Berry, Fran Martin, & Audrey Yue
9. My First Recession: Critical Internet Culture in Transition
Author: Geert Lovink
Publisher: V2/NAi Publishers, 2003
Review 1: Michel Bauwens
10. Rhetorical Democracy: Discursive Practices of Civic Engagement
Editor: Gerard Hauser, Amy Grim
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004
Review 1: David Schulz
11. The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information Society
Author: Jan A. G. M. van Dijk
Publisher: Sage, 2005
Review 1: Alan Zaremba
12. The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace
Author: Vincent Mosco
Publisher: MIT Press, 2004
Review 1: Dale Bradley
Author Response: Vincent Mosco
13. The Souls of Cyberfolk: Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory
Author: Thomas Foster
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 2005
Review 1: Michele Braun
Review 2: Kim Toffoletti
Author Response: Thomas Foster
14. Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction
Author: Nick Montfort
Publisher: MIT Press, 2003
Review 1: Russell Mills
Review 2: T. Michael Roberts
Author Response: Nick Montfort