<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hi everyone,<br>I’m happy to announce the publication of my newest book <i>A Billion Little Pieces: RFID and
Infrastructures of Identification</i>. It will be published by MIT Press on March 5. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Billion-Little-Pieces-Infrastructures-Identification/dp/0262039753/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);font-size:14.6667px">Here’s a link to the book.</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The book is about the infrastructures of the Internet of
Things and makes the argument that our world is already filled with
communicative objects; it’s just that many of them are more mundane than we
were led to expect. In particular, I’m interested in exploring just where so
much of the data that shapes the world comes from. I think of it like an
extended form of documentation that looks at how often invisible technologies
of identification shape our world. Hopefully it’s relevant to some of the great
tech comm work you all are doing. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I made the first chapter available <a href="https://www.jordanfrith.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Frith_RFIDchapter1.pdf">for free on mywebsite</a>. If you have any questions for me or just want to talk about research,
don’t hesitate to reach out. Intro chapter: </p>
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Oh, and if you like acknowledgment sections with paragraphs about dogs, you
should definitely check out the book. That’s kind of my thing.</p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px">Jordan Frith, Ph.D.</span><div style="font-size:13px">Associate Professor</div><div style="font-size:13px">University of North Texas</div><div style="font-size:13px">Department of Technical Communication</div><div style="font-size:13px"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Books-Jordan-Frith/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AJordan+Frith" target="_blank">My Amazon author page</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>