<div dir="ltr"><div>Congratulations, Con! I'm looking forward to reading it!</div><div><br></div><div>Liz</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">_________________<div>Elizabeth Petrick</div><div>Associate Professor</div><div>Director of Graduate Studies</div><div>Department of History</div><div>Rice University</div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM HOCHHEISER, SHELDON H 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 class="msg4646117056741618970">
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<b>Subject:</b> 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!)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:1pt;color:white">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.</span><span style="font-size:1pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:white"> </span><span style="font-size:1pt;color:white">vt.</span><span style="font-size:1pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:white"> </span><span style="font-size:1pt;color:white">edu/sts
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Congratulations, Con, so well deserved! I look forward to assigning Everyone Breaks These Laws to my students.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Dr. Janet Abbate<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">On Jun 18, 2025, at 1:03</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt">PM, Jeffrey Yost via Members <<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org" target="_blank">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">I want to share the tremendous news that CBI Research Fellow (& dear friend & close collaborator) Professor </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(71,71,71)">Gerardo Con Díaz</span><span style="font-size:12pt"> has
recently been promoted to Full Professor and just became the Chair of Science and Technology Studies at UC, Davis! <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Additionally, his new book <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251265/everyone-breaks-these-laws/__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFkEwSDb8$" target="_blank">Everyone
Breaks These Laws: How Copyright Made the Online World</a> was just published (yesterday!) from Yale University Press. I had the pleasure of reading this fascinating and insightful book earlier this year, and the honor, along with distinguished colleagues Prof.
Kevin Driscoll and Prof. Ken Alder, of contributing a blurb!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Please join me in congratulating Con!!!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(56,118,29)"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFvjj7mNY$" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Just
Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy of IT</span></i><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"> (Johns Hopkins U. Press out in Nov. 2025 co-edited w/ Gerardo Con Diaz)</span></a> </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry</span></i><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"> (MIT Press)</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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