<div dir="ltr">I was fortunate to read this super compelling and insightful book on IBM's corporate culture early, as I did one of its blurbs. Highly recommended and so grateful for our research fellows at CBI!<div><br></div><div>Congratulations Jim!!!</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><b><font color="#222222">* * * * * *</font></b></div><div><b><font color="#222222">Please connect on: </font></b><span style="color:rgb(0,176,240)"><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/justcodeculture.bsky.social" target="_blank"><b>Bluesky</b></a> </span><b><a href="https://mastodon.social/@justcodeculture" target="_blank">Mastodon</a></b><font style="font-weight:bold"><font color="#000000"> </font></font><b> </b><b><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-yost-b714566" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Linkedin</font></a></b><b> <font color="#222222"> </font></b><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)"><a href="https://www.threads.net/" target="_blank"><b>Threads</b></a></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#00b050"></span></p><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. </b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Director, <a href="http://www.cse.umn.edu/cbi" target="_blank">Charles Babbage Institute</a>; Research Professor, History Sci/Tech/Med</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">222 21st Avenue South, University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN 55455</p></div><div><br></div></div><div><b><font color="#cc0000">Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press </font></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Co-Editor </span></div><div><font color="#222222"><b>PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."</b></font></div><div><a href="https://www.blockchainandsociety.com" target="_blank"><font color="#38761d"><b>Blockchain & Society</b></font></a><font color="#38761d"><b> (crit. inq. essays & resources)</b></font> (Founder/Leader)</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><a href="https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture</font></a> </i></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Co-Editor (w/ Amanda Wick)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#38761d"><b>Committee Member, National Academy of Engineering Extraordinary Engineering Impacts on Society</b></font></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press)</font></a></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></p></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 11:55 AM Pierre Mounier-Kuhn via Members <<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div id="m_-324571954061854681zimbraEditorContainer" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div></div><div><span style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif">Congratulations, Jim! I will certainly acquire your book while I'm in Washington and NY in November – and read it with great interest.</span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif">Best,</span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif">Pierre</span></div><div><span style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif"> </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif">Pierre Mounier-Kuhn<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif">CNRS & Sorbonne Université<u></u><u></u></span></p><span style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif"><a href="https://cnrs.academia.edu/PierreMounierKuhn" target="_blank">https://cnrs.academia.edu/PierreMounierKuhn</a></span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif"><a href="https://centrerolandmousnier.cnrs.fr/fiche-personnelle-pierre-mounier-kuhn/" target="_blank">https://centrerolandmousnier.cnrs.fr/fiche-personnelle-pierre-mounier-kuhn/</a></span><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="m_-324571954061854681zwchr"><div><b>De: </b>"James Cortada via Members" <<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org" target="_blank">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>><br><b>À: </b>"sigcis" <<a href="mailto:members@sigcis.org" target="_blank">members@sigcis.org</a>><br><b>Envoyé: </b>Mercredi 18 Octobre 2023 15:51:39<br><b>Objet: </b>[SIGCIS-Members] New History of IBM<br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:cambria">Dear colleagues, Columbia University Press just published my
next book about IBM, <i>Inside IBM: Lessons
of a Corporate Culture in Action. </i>Unlike
my earlier history of the firm published by MIT in 2019 (<i>IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon</i>) this one
is an experiment to see if a history of a high tech firm can be written from
the perspective of cultural studies and sociology. I discuss the company’s strong culture, role
of humor, image building, effects on products (e.g., computers), material
culture ephemera (e.g., coffee mugs and postcards), and relations with
employees and their families. Columbia
University Press has made this book available to us at a 20% discount off its
$45 list price if ordered directly from the publisher. Use promo code CUP20 at its website. If you read the book, please let me know what
you think of my experiment. Jim Cortada</p><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>James W. Cortada</div><div>Senior Research Fellow</div>
<div>Charles Babbage Institute</div><div>University of Minnesota</div>
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