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Gina Neff

Sun, Aug 4, 2013 3:49 PM

Hi all,

I want to point out a couple of things. Dan Ryan has made a very useful list of CITASA & CITASA-like sessions including work on media and communication that is happening across ASA. More and more the work that we are doing here is being infused across topical areas in the association as a whole.
http://djjr-lib.net/d3/ASA2013/

I also want to point out that one way to get more media and communication stand-alone sessions is to propose thematic sessions. These need to be submitted 21 months in advance. The deadline for proposals for the 2015 ASA in Chicago will be this November. Another way is propose Author-Meets-Critics sessions or Workshops/Courses. These will be due in February 2014 for the 2015 meetings, and any member can propose these sessions. The work we've been doing in our section is emerging as hot in the field as a whole and our members have a lot of methodological and theoretical contributions to make to the discipline. That's one good reason to get an early start on planning for 2015 in Chicago and 2016 in Seattle!

The CITASA council has worked hard to make sure that we get "extra" sessions through these mechanisms. This year, for instance, we're co-sponsoring a session on "Social Media and Social Inequality" as part of this year's theme on inequality and features Duncan Watts, of Microsoft Research and author of Everything is Obvious and Six Degrees; Lee Rainie, the Director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project and co-author of Networked; Dawn Nafus, an anthropologist at Intel who has just written an ethnography of the Quantified Self movementhttp://http://quantifiedself.com/2013/04/quantified-self-ethnography/; and Mary Gray, a researcher at Microsoft Research, professor at Indiana University and author of Out in the Country. The session will be 8:30 on Sunday, another good reason to get an early start on your day.

I'm happy to share my experience organizing a theme session with others, especially if it helps multiply the number of interesting media and communication sessions that we have at ASA!

Safe travels!

Best,
Gina

Dr. Gina Neff
Associate Professor (on leave)
Department of Communication
University of Washington
Twitter: @ginasue
http://ginaneff.com/

Author, Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industrieshttp://www.amazon.com/Venture-Labor-Innovative-Industries-Technology/dp/0262017482

Research Fellow, Center for Information Technology Policyhttps://citp.princeton.edu/
Princeton University

Visiting Scholar, Department of Media, Culture and Communicationhttp://steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc/
New York University

Visiting Scholar, Center on Organizational Innovationhttp://www.coi.columbia.edu/
Columbia University

Hi all, I want to point out a couple of things. Dan Ryan has made a very useful list of CITASA & CITASA-like sessions including work on media and communication that is happening across ASA. More and more the work that we are doing here is being infused across topical areas in the association as a whole. http://djjr-lib.net/d3/ASA2013/ I also want to point out that one way to get more media and communication stand-alone sessions is to propose thematic sessions. These need to be submitted *21* months in advance. The deadline for proposals for the 2015 ASA in Chicago will be this November. Another way is propose Author-Meets-Critics sessions or Workshops/Courses. These will be due in February 2014 for the 2015 meetings, and any member can propose these sessions. The work we've been doing in our section is emerging as hot in the field as a whole and our members have a lot of methodological and theoretical contributions to make to the discipline. That's one good reason to get an early start on planning for 2015 in Chicago and 2016 in Seattle! The CITASA council has worked hard to make sure that we get "extra" sessions through these mechanisms. This year, for instance, we're co-sponsoring a session on "Social Media and Social Inequality" as part of this year's theme on inequality and features Duncan Watts, of Microsoft Research and author of Everything is Obvious and Six Degrees; Lee Rainie, the Director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project and co-author of Networked; Dawn Nafus, an anthropologist at Intel who has just written an ethnography of the Quantified Self movement<http://http://quantifiedself.com/2013/04/quantified-self-ethnography/>; and Mary Gray, a researcher at Microsoft Research, professor at Indiana University and author of Out in the Country. The session will be 8:30 on Sunday, another good reason to get an early start on your day. I'm happy to share my experience organizing a theme session with others, especially if it helps multiply the number of interesting media and communication sessions that we have at ASA! Safe travels! Best, Gina Dr. Gina Neff Associate Professor (on leave) Department of Communication University of Washington Twitter: @ginasue http://ginaneff.com/ Author, Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries<http://www.amazon.com/Venture-Labor-Innovative-Industries-Technology/dp/0262017482> Research Fellow, Center for Information Technology Policy<https://citp.princeton.edu/> Princeton University Visiting Scholar, Department of Media, Culture and Communication<http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc/> New York University Visiting Scholar, Center on Organizational Innovation<http://www.coi.columbia.edu/> Columbia University

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Shelia Cotten

Sun, Aug 4, 2013 4:04 PM

I agree with Gina and Barry. CITASA has some fantastic sessions at this year's ASA! CITASA members are also spread across the program in regular and section sessions.

Please check the listings that Dan has pulled from the program. If you are doing a presentation of relevance to our members, please send it to Dan to add to the CITASA website and feel free to announce it here on the listservs!

Looking forward to seeing everyone in New York later this week!

Shelia

Shelia R. Cotten, PhD
Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Alabama, Birmingham
460N Heritage Hall
1530 3rd Ave S.
Birmingham, AL 35294-1152
205-934-8678
cotten@uab.edu
Chair, Communication and Information Technologies Section (CITASA), American Sociological Association
Twitter: @shelia_cotten

I agree with Gina and Barry. CITASA has some fantastic sessions at this year's ASA! CITASA members are also spread across the program in regular and section sessions. Please check the listings that Dan has pulled from the program. If you are doing a presentation of relevance to our members, please send it to Dan to add to the CITASA website and feel free to announce it here on the listservs! Looking forward to seeing everyone in New York later this week! Shelia *************************************** Shelia R. Cotten, PhD Professor Department of Sociology University of Alabama, Birmingham 460N Heritage Hall 1530 3rd Ave S. Birmingham, AL 35294-1152 205-934-8678 cotten@uab.edu Chair, Communication and Information Technologies Section (CITASA), American Sociological Association Twitter: @shelia_cotten

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Barry Wellman

Sun, Aug 4, 2013 5:18 PM

I will add to Dan's list our paper in the Workplace Transformation
session, Monday 4:30-6

How Networked is a Networked Organization?

 *Barry Wellman (University of Toronto), *Dimitrina Dimitrova

(University of Toronto), *Mo Guang Ying (University of Toronto), *Zack
Hayat (University of Toronto)

I'll be presenting our new longitudinal study of a network of nearly 200
scholars

Barry Wellman

NetLab Director FRSC INSNA Founder
Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building
140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman

NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman
MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $22 Kindle $16
Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8

I will add to Dan's list our paper in the Workplace Transformation session, Monday 4:30-6 How Networked is a Networked Organization? *Barry Wellman (University of Toronto), *Dimitrina Dimitrova (University of Toronto), *Mo Guang Ying (University of Toronto), *Zack Hayat (University of Toronto) I'll be presenting our new longitudinal study of a network of nearly 200 scholars Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab Director FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $22 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________

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