[P2P-F] Fwd: off the network -- my (open access) book from minnesota press

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Ulises Mejias <ulises.mejias at oswego.edu>
Date: Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 2:27 AM
Subject: off the network -- my (open access) book from minnesota press
To: Ulises Mejias <ulises.mejias at oswego.edu>


Friends and colleagues,

As more information about the NSA global surveillance program is coming
out, I imagine I am not the only one who feels our worst suspicions have
been confirmed. But despite the outrage, I imagine I am also not the only
one who feels unable to stop voluntarily contributing to the invasion of my
own privacy.

This is one of the paradoxes I examine in my new book, *Off the Network:
Disrupting the Digital
World*<http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/off-the-network>,
which is finally available from the University of Minnesota Press. In it, I
propose that digital networks increase opportunities for social and civic
participation at the same time that they create certain kinds of
inequalities, and I explore the question of how we would go about
"unthinking" the network, and to what end.

You can pick up a paper copy from your favorite bookseller. Thanks both to
Minnesota Press and SUNY Oswego, *the book is also available in an open
access format,* so you can read <http://offthenetwork.pressbooks.com/> or
download <http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/off-the-network>the
whole manuscript right now -- for free!

You can share the news by using the link offthenetwork.info (which
redirects you to the publisher's page). Or you can send people to my
personal website: ulisesmejias.com.

Thank you.

/Ulises