Dear SIGCIS Members, Christina Dunbar-Hester has just published her book, _Low Power to the People: Pirates, Protest, and Politics in FM Radio Activism <http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/low-power-people>_, with MIT Press. It promises to be a fascinating and useful book for many people in our field. I realize that some people on this list will not consider the book to be "history of computing" in the strictest sense, but I also know that it lays close enough to many of your interests to be worth sharing. Here's the first paragraph of description from the publisher's webpage: The United States ushered in a new era of small-scale broadcasting in 2000 when it began issuing low-power FM (LPFM) licenses for noncommercial radio stations around the country. Over the next decade, several hundred of these newly created low-wattage stations took to the airwaves. In *Low Power to the People*, Christina Dunbar-Hester describes the practices of an activist organization focused on LPFM during this era. Despite its origins as a pirate broadcasting collective, the group eventually shifted toward building and expanding regulatory access to new, licensed stations. These radio activists consciously cast radio as an alternative to digital utopianism, promoting an understanding of electronic media that emphasizes the local community rather than a global audience of Internet users. Very best, Lee -- Assistant Professor Program on Science and Technology Studies College of Arts and Letters Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ 07030 AmericanScience.Blogspot.com Twitter: @STS_News