[SIGCIS-Members] New Book from CBI Research Fellow Prof. Gerardo Con Díaz --Everyone Breaks These Laws: How Copyright Made the Online World (AND Con was promoted to Full Prof. & became Chair!)

[Jeffrey Yost]

Dear Colleagues,

I want to share the tremendous news that CBI Research Fellow (& dear friend
& close collaborator) Professor Gerardo Con Díaz has recently been promoted
to Full Professor and just became the Chair of Science and Technology
Studies at UC, Davis!

Additionally, his new book Everyone Breaks These Laws: How Copyright Made
the Online World
<https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251265/everyone-breaks-these-laws/> was
just published (yesterday!) from Yale University Press. I had the pleasure
of reading this fascinating and insightful book earlier this year, and the
honor, along with distinguished colleagues Prof. Kevin Driscoll and Prof.
Ken Alder, of contributing a blurb!

Please join me in congratulating Con!!!

Best, Jeff

**   *   *   *   *   **
*Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. *
*Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture*
*Research Professor, University of Minnesota*

*Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy of IT (Johns
Hopkins U. Press out in Nov. 2025 co-edited w/ Gerardo Con Diaz)
<https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code> *
*Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press)
<https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6>*
*Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press
<https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture>
*Co-Editor
(w/ Con Diaz)
*PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives,
Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."*
*Blockchain & Society* <https://www.blockchainandsociety.com>* (crit. inq.
essays & resources)* (Founder/Leader)

*Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture
<https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces> *Co-Editor-in-Chief (w/ Amanda Wick)
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