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We are proud to announce the publication of our new book<FONT COLOR="#FF0000">:</FONT> Digital Solidarities, Communication Policy and Multi-stakeholder Global Governance: The Legacy of the World Summit on the Information Society<FONT COLOR="#1F497D">.</FONT> <BR>
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Digital Solidarities (New York: Peter Lang, 2010) is written by Marc Raboy, Normand Landry and Jeremy Shtern. The book examines the actors, structures and themes that shaped the 2003-2005 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), with a particular focus on the role played by civil society. The book investigates how civil society self-organization has continued post-WSIS through the formation of the UN-sponsored Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and other policymaking venues, and reflects on what the WSIS experience reveals about the challenges and opportunities embedded in the notion of multi-stakeholder governance and its implications for understanding global communication.<BR>
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The book can be purchased on Amazon or directly from the publisher: <BR>
<a href="http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=54123&cid=537">http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=54123&cid=537</a><BR>
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You can also access a free read-only copy of the entire book here: <BR>
<FONT COLOR="#000080"><a href="http://media.mcgill.ca/files/DigitalSolidarities.pdf">http://media.mcgill.ca/files/DigitalSolidarities.pdf</a> <BR>
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For anyone in the Montréal area, Media@McGill (www.media.mcgill.ca <<a href="http://www.media.mcgill.ca">http://www.media.mcgill.ca</a>> ) is organizing a book launch to celebrate two releases - Digital Solidarities and Media Divides: Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada (by Marc Raboy and Jeremy Shtern, with William J. McIver Jr., Laura J. Murray, Sean O Siochru, and Leslie Regan Shade. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010).<BR>
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The book launch will be held on Thursday, 2 December, from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. in Room W220, in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University, Arts Building, 853 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal (see <a href="http://media.mcgill.ca/en/double_book_launch">http://media.mcgill.ca/en/double_book_launch</a> for map and<FONT COLOR="#000080"> </FONT>more info). <BR>
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