Keith N Hampton

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

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 16, 2008

COMMUNITY AND TECHNOLOGY
Organizer: Keith N Hampton, University of Pennsylvania
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
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
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
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.

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