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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial">Dear SIGCIS
friends and colleagues,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial">I'm pleased
to announce the recent publication of my book through The MIT Press: </span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial">Giving
Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial">How
communication technologies meant to empower people with speech disorders—to
give voice to the voiceless—are still subject to disempowering structural
inequalities.</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial">“<i>Giving
Voice</i> reopens the venerable question of new media’s effects on young people
in invigorating ways, both through its ethnographic focus on iPad adoption and
through its nuanced account of the meaning of voices and voice technologies. I
came away from this book impressed at how difficult it is now, as perhaps it
has ever been, to distinguish between face-to-face and mediated communication.
Alper shows just how complex any interface between people can be!” —<b>John
Durham Peters</b>, Professor of English and Film and Media Studies, Yale
University; author of <i>The Marvelous Clouds</i></span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial">Until
3/1/17, friends and colleagues can receive a special <b>30% discount</b> on the
book’s list price when ordering it directly through the MIT Press website at <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/giving-voice"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://mitpress.mit.edu/giving-voice</span></a>).
Use digital discount code <b>MALPER30 </b>when prompted during checkout. This
code can be used more than once, for multiple copies, and for both print and
e-editions as they become available.</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial">Additionally,
if you are in the Boston/Cambridge, MA area, there will be a book release
event/signing at The MIT Press Bookstore on February 28 at 6 pm. I will also be
in NYC and LA in the coming months, with more locations to be added: <a href="https://merylalper.com/giving-voice/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://merylalper.com/giving-voice/</span></a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial">If you are
interested in hosting a book talk, or are a journalist seeking a review copy,
please feel free to reach out at <a href="mailto:m.alper@northeastern.edu">m.alper@northeastern.edu</a>.</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial">With thanks
and best wishes,</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial">Meryl Alper</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p>
</div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><b>Meryl Alper</b><br></div>Assistant Professor<br></div>Department of Communication Studies<br></div>Northeastern University<br></div><div>Holmes 217<br></div><div><a href="mailto:m.alper@northeastern.edu" target="_blank">m.alper@northeastern.edu</a><br></div><div><a href="http://merylalper.com" target="_blank">merylalper.com</a><br>Author, <i>Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality</i> (<a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/giving-voice" target="_blank">MIT Press</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Giving-Voice-Communication-Disability-Inequality/dp/0262533979/" target="_blank">Amazon</a>)<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>