[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!)

[Elizabeth Petrick]

Congratulations, Con! I'm looking forward to reading it!

Liz
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Elizabeth Petrick
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of History
Rice University


On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM HOCHHEISER, SHELDON H via Members <
members at lists.sigcis.org> wrote:

> Yes, Congratulations Con!
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> Best
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> Sheldon
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> *Sheldon Hochheiser, Ph.D.*
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> Corporate Historian
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> AT&T Archives and History Center
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> *From:* Members <members-bounces at lists.sigcis.org> *On Behalf Of *Abbate,
> Janet via Members
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 18, 2025 1:35 PM
> *To:* sigcis <members at sigcis.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [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!)
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> Congratulations, Con, so well deserved! I look forward to assigning
> Everyone Breaks These Laws to my students. best, Janet Dr. Janet Abbate
> Professor, Science, Technology and Society Virginia Tech liberalarts. vt. edu/sts
> Co-director, VT National
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> Congratulations, Con, so well deserved! I look forward to assigning
> Everyone Breaks These Laws to my students.
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> best,
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> Janet
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> Dr. Janet Abbate
> Professor, Science, Technology and Society
> Virginia Tech
> liberalarts.vt.edu/sts
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> Co-director, VT National Capital Region STS program
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> Author, Inventing the Internet and Recoding Gender
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> On Jun 18, 2025, at 1:03 PM, Jeffrey Yost via Members <
> members at lists.sigcis.org> wrote:
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> Dear Colleagues,
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> 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!
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> Additionally, his new book Everyone Breaks These Laws: How Copyright Made
> the Online World
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251265/everyone-breaks-these-laws/__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFkEwSDb8$> was
> just published (yesterday!) from Yale University Press. I had the pleasure
> of reading this fascinating and insightful book earlier this year, and the
> honor, along with distinguished colleagues Prof. Kevin Driscoll and Prof.
> Ken Alder, of contributing a blurb!
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> Please join me in congratulating Con!!!
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> Best, Jeff
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> **   *   *   *   *   **
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> *Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. *
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> *Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture*
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> *Research Professor, University of Minnesota*
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> *Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy of IT (Johns
> Hopkins U. Press out in Nov. 2025 co-edited w/ Gerardo Con Diaz)
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFvjj7mNY$> *
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> *Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press)
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/amzn.to/3gqe4R6__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFrXoAR6A$>*
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> *Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFfDlbVi8$> *Co-Editor
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> *PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives,
> Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."*
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> *Blockchain & Society*
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.blockchainandsociety.com/__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFHJHrdhc$>* (crit.
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> *Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture
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