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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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<div>best,</div>
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<div>Dr. Janet Abbate<br>
Professor, Science, Technology and Society<br>
Virginia Tech<br>
liberalarts.vt.edu/sts</div>
<div>Co-director, VT National Capital Region STS program</div>
<div>Author, Inventing the Internet and Recoding Gender</div>
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<div>On Jun 18, 2025, at 1:03 PM, Jeffrey Yost via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:</div>
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<div>Dear Colleagues,</div>
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<div>I want to share the tremendous news that CBI Research Fellow (& dear friend & close collaborator) Professor <span style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Roboto,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Gerardo Con Díaz</span> has recently been promoted to Full
Professor and just became the Chair of Science and Technology Studies at UC, Davis! </div>
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<div>Additionally, his new book <a href="https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251265/everyone-breaks-these-laws/" originalsrc="https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251265/everyone-breaks-these-laws/" 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!</div>
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<div>Please join me in congratulating Con!!!</div>
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<div>Best, Jeff</div>
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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. </b></div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture</b></div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Research Professor, University of Minnesota</b><b></b></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b style="color:rgb(56,118,29)"><a href="https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code" originalsrc="https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><i>Just Code: Power, Inequality
and the Political Economy of IT</i> (Johns Hopkins U. Press out in Nov. 2025 co-edited w/ Gerardo Con Diaz)</a> </b></div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><a href="https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6" originalsrc="https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000"><i>Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry</i> (MIT Press)</font></a></b><b style="color:rgb(56,118,29)"></b></div>
<div><b><font color="#cc0000"><a href="https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture" originalsrc="https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture" target="_blank">Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns
Hopkins U. Press</a> </font></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Co-Editor (w/ Con Diaz)</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/" originalsrc="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>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><a href="https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces" originalsrc="https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces" target="_blank"><font>Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture</font></a> </i></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Co-Editor-in-Chief
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