Yes, Congratulations Con!

Best

 

Sheldon

 

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Corporate Historian

AT&T Archives and History Center

 

AT&T

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From: Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> On Behalf Of Abbate, Janet via Members
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2025 1:35 PM
To: sigcis <members@sigcis.org>
Subject: 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!)

 

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. vt. edu/sts Co-director, VT National

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.vt.edu/sts

Co-director, VT National Capital Region STS program

Author, Inventing the Internet and Recoding Gender

On Jun 18, 2025, at 1:03 PM, Jeffrey Yost via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:

 

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 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

 

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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) 

Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press)

Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press Co-Editor (w/ Con Diaz)

PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."

Blockchain & Society (crit. inq. essays & resources) (Founder/Leader)

Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture Co-Editor-in-Chief (w/ Amanda Wick)

 

 

 

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