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CITASA Annual Meeting Call for Papers

CITASA Annual Meeting Call for Papers

The ASA annual meeting online paper submission site is now open. You can now submit papers to the Section paper sessions and Section roundtables.

Note, you need not be an ASA or CITASA member to submit a paper for the annual meeting.

**Remember to indicate on your submission that you would like your paper consider for the CITASA Roundtables if it is not accepted to a paper session.

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CALL FOR PAPERS
American Sociological Association
Section on Communication and Information Technologies (CITASA) August 1-4,
2008 Boston, MA

This year's section sessions:
1) Community & Technology
2) Communications & Society
3) Sociology of Communications & IT
4) Roundtable Session

Accepted papers are eligible to be included in the 2nd annual CITASA special issue of the journal Information, Communication and Society (iCS).

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 16, 2008

COMMUNITY AND TECHNOLOGY
Organizer:
Keith N Hampton, University of Pennsylvania khampton AT asc DOT upenn DOT edu

Description:
Recognizing the diverse definitions of community, this session is open to empirical, theory, and design submissions related to the study of community and new information and communication technologies. Topics may include:
virtual communities, communities of interest, geographic communities, community informatics, distributed communities, inter-organizational communities, learning communities, social networks, and ethnographies and case studies of community.

COMMUNICATIONS AND SOCIETY
Organizer:
Keith N Hampton, University of Pennsylvania khampton AT asc DOT upenn DOT edu

Description:
The sociology of communications at a societal or institutional level. The sociology of communications is framed broadly to include the study of mass media, interpersonal communication, entertainment media, broadcast media, mobile media, the Internet, verbal and non-verbal communication, and advertising. Examples of topics include: media institutions, media ownership, globalization, cross-cultural comparisons, learning intuitions, audiences, work, law, and identity.

SOCIOLOGY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND IT
Organizer:
Keith N Hampton, University of Pennsylvania khampton AT asc DOT upenn DOT edu

Description:
Open session on any topic related to the study of new information and communication technologies. Quantitative, qualitative, conceptual, critical, and theory contributions are welcome. Topics may include: health, politics, work, relationships, virtual environments, social networks, teaching, software, hardware, the Internet, cell phones, mobile computing, etc.

ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS
Organizer:
Lee Humphreys, University of Wisconsin lhumphreys AT asc DOT upenn DOT edu

Description:
Open to all areas within the sociological study of communications and information technologies.

ALL SUBMISSIONS FOR THE 2008 PROGRAM MUST BE MADE VIA THE ASA ONLINE SYSTEM.
The deadline to submit a paper is January 16, 2008

Those submitting papers to a regular session are strongly encourage to indicate that they would like their paper forwarded to the Roundtable Session if there is not room for their paper in a regular session.

Authors submitting papers to regular section sessions will be will be notified of the acceptance of their paper by February 20. Authors submitting to the section roundtables will be notified by March 14.

IMPORTANT REMINDER
ANNUAL SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION AND SOCIETY All papers accepted for presentation during a CITASA section session, the CITASA Roundtable Session, the CITASA Pre-Conference and Graduate Student Workshop (to be announced soon!), or any ASA session at the 2008 meeting, is eligible to be included in the 2nd annual CITASA special issue of the journal Information, Communication and Society (iCS).
More information on the special issue will be available soon.

Looking forward to seeing you in Boston!

Keith Hampton
CITASA Chair

posted by Netwoman @ 12:46 PM