Congrats on your promotion, Con! We'll deserved! "The infatuation with institutional neutrality is making cowardice into a policy" - MIchael Roth, President, Wesleyan University --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ramesh Subramanian, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Business Analytics & Information Systems Quinnipiac University Hamden, CT 06518, USA Email: ramesh.subramanian@qu.edu Web: https://www.qu.edu/faculty-and-staff/ramesh-subramanian & Affiliated Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School New Haven, CT 06511, USA Email: ramesh.subramanian@yale.edu Web: https://www.law.yale.edu/ramesh-subramanian Recent book: Mobile Technology and Social Transformations<https://www.routledge.com/Mobile-Technology-and-Social-Transformations-Access-to-Knowledge-in-Global/Felsberger-Subramanian/p/book/9780367545246>, Routledge, UK (2021) ________________________________ From: Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of Jeffrey Yost via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2025 1:03 PM To: sigcis <members@sigcis.org> Subject: [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!) CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not follow guidance, click links, or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Colleagues, I want to share the tremendous news that CBI Research Fellow (& dear friend & close collaborator) Professor Gerardo Con Díaz has recently been promoted to Full Professor and just became the Chair of Science and Technology Studies at UC, Davis! Additionally, his new book Everyone Breaks These Laws: How Copyright Made the Online World<https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251265/everyone-breaks-these-laws/> 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! Please join me in congratulating Con!!! Best, Jeff * * * * * * Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture Research Professor, University of Minnesota Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy of IT (Johns Hopkins U. Press out in Nov. 2025 co-edited w/ Gerardo Con Diaz)<https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code> Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press)<https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6> Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press<https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture> Co-Editor (w/ Con Diaz) PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy." Blockchain & Society<https://www.blockchainandsociety.com/> (crit. inq. essays & resources) (Founder/Leader) Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture<https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces> Co-Editor-in-Chief (w/ Amanda Wick)