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Congrats on your promotion, Con! We'll deserved!
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infatuation with institutional neutrality is making cowardice into a policy</b></span><span style="font-family: "Abyssinica SIL", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"><b><i>" - MIchael Roth, President, Wesleyan University</i></b></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ramesh Subramanian, Ph.D.<br>
Professor Emeritus of Business Analytics & Information Systems<br>
Quinnipiac University</span></div>
<div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 10pt;">Hamden, CT 06518, USA</div>
<div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 10pt;">Email: ramesh.subramanian@qu.edu<br>
Web: <a href="https://www.qu.edu/faculty-and-staff/ramesh-subramanian">https://www.qu.edu/faculty-and-staff/ramesh-subramanian</a><br>
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</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Email: ramesh.subramanian@yale.edu<br>
Web: <a href="https://www.law.yale.edu/ramesh-subramanian">https://www.law.yale.edu/ramesh-subramanian</a></span></div>
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<div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Recent book:
<i><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Mobile-Technology-and-Social-Transformations-Access-to-Knowledge-in-Global/Felsberger-Subramanian/p/book/9780367545246" target="_blank" title="https://www.routledge.com/Mobile-Technology-and-Social-Transformations-Access-to-Knowledge-in-Global/Felsberger-Subramanian/p/book/9780367545246" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px;">Mobile
Technology and Social Transformations</a></i>, Routledge, UK (2021)</span><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [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!)</font>
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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><b><font color="#222222">* * * * * *</font></b></div>
<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" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><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="x_MsoNormal"><b><i><a href="https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces" originalsrc="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-in-Chief
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