Hello all! We are gearing up for an excellent meeting in Denver. Below I highlight the CITASA sponsored sessions, give information on the reception, and high light other sessions of interest to members. A few items to note. First, the reception: It will be Sunday night, from 6-8:30 pm (note early start time) at the historic Magnolia Ballroom. The menu features Asian themed appetizers, a sushi display and dessert platters. We'll have festive cocktails, wine, beer, and sparkling wine on hand. Please join us! Second, we have a full day of activities on Monday. We obtained an extra invited session this year. At 12:30 on Monday Christena Nippert-Eng, Karin Knorr Cetina, Chandra Mukerji and Pablo Boczkowski will present work in a highlighted session on Culture and Technology. As an invited session, this one doesn't show on the ASA system under our section, so I just bring it to your attention. Third, there are several sessions concerning work of interest to our members and featuring CITASA members. Two of particular interest are Social Stratification and Internet Practices (Friday 8:30-10:10) and Critical Perspectives on the Internet and Society (Saturday 12:30 - 2:10). Please do check these out. Finally, please connect with us on Twitter at #citasa or #asa2012 for updates and discussion. I list below in a thumbnail sketch the schedule. Looking forward to seeing you all in Denver! Dr. Gina Neff Associate Professor Department of Communication University of Washington Chair, Communication and Information Technologies Section, American Sociological Association<http://citasa.org/> Author, Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries<http://www.amazon.com/Venture-Labor-Innovative-Industries-Technology/dp/0262017482> ------------------------------------- Summary of Events CITASA Reception SUNDAY 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Magnolia Ballroom ACROSS the street from the Magnolia Hotel 818 17th ST Between Champa and Stout - look for the black awning Monday August 20 8:30am - 10:10am The Future(s) of Research on Communication and Information Technology 10:30 - 11:30 CITASA Roundtables 1. Digital Divides 2. Movements & Organizing 3. Work and Organizations 4. Sex and Sexuality 5. Games and Gaming 6. Cultures of Technology 11:30 - 12:10 Business Meeting & Presentation of CITASA Awards 12:30 - 2:10 CITASA Invited Session: The Cultures of Technology 2:30- 4:10 The Sociology of Social Media Other sessions of Interest Friday 8:30 - 10:10 Social Stratification and Internet Practices Saturday 12:30 - 2:10 Critical Perspectives on the Internet and Society -------------------------------------------------- FULL LISTING Mon, Aug 20 - 8:30am - 10:10am The Future(s) of Research on Communication and Information Technology Engaging Individuals in New Societies: Expanding Traditional Research Methodologies for the Digital Age Kelly N. Foster (University of Georgia) The Arab Spring and Media Narratives: Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation to Measure the Media Charles Causey (University of Washington) Hired Hands and Dubious Guesses: Adventures in Crowd-sourced Data Collection Aaron Shaw (University of California-Berkeley) When You Just Can't Get Away: Exploring the Use of ICTs in Facilitating Negative Work/Home Spillover Ronald W. Berkowsky (University of Alabama-Birmingham) The Iron Law 2.0: Does the Digital Age Enable More Democracy within Social Movement Organizations? Jen Schradie (University of California-Berkeley) Mon, Aug 20 - 10:30-11:30am CITASA Roundtables 1. Digital Divides Table Presider: Lloyd Klein (St. Francis College) The Digital Divide in Classroom Technology Use: A Comparison of 3 Schools Matthew H. Rafalow (University of California-Irvine), Meg Cramer (University of California-Irvine) A Vision Realized or a Continuing Digital Divide? Examining the OLPC Program in Birmingham, Alabama Shelia R. Cotten (University of Alabama-Birmingham), Timothy M. Hale (University of Alabama-Birmingham), LaToya J. ONeal (University of Alabama-Birmingham) Cutting the Cord: The Impact of Wireless Internet Access on U.S. Income Inequality David A. Martin (University of Oregon) 2. Movements and Organizing Table Presider: Dan Ryan (Mills College) The Influence of Leadership on Activity Levels in an Online Crime Watch Community PJ Rey (University of Maryland), Awalin Sopan (University of Maryland), Jae-wook Ahn (University of Maryland), Jeehye Kang (University of Maryland-College Park), Catherine Plaisant (University of Maryland) Internet Technology Use and the 2010 United States Social Forum James W. Love (University of California-Riverside), Elizabeth Anne Gervais Schwarz (University of California-Riverside) Framing Boundary Movements: Leveraging Social Media for a Science-based Utopia Shaila Miranda (University of Oklahoma) 3. Work and Organizations Table Presider: Rebecca G. Adams (University of North Carolina-Greensboro) Fashion's Night Out: Towards an Ethnography of Magazine-to-New_Media Work Nicholas Andrew Boston (City University of New York-Lehman College and Cambridge University) ICT-related Job Stress, Perceived Social Support, and Work-family Spillover Anthony David Campbell (University of Alabama-Birmingham) Promoting Diversity in the Sciences: The Potential for Online Social Networking in Virtual Organizations Dhiraj Murthy (Bowdoin College), Atilano Rodriguez (Bowdoin College), Macgill J. Eldredge (Bowdoin College) Team Paradox: Non-excludable Resources and Deliberative Decision-making in Open Source Software Production Alexander Jerneck (University of Pennsylvania) 4. Sex and Sexuality Table Presider: Christena Nippert-Eng Why Relationships do not Form: Evidence from an Online Dating Site Mikolaj Jan Piskorski (Harvard University) Youth Sexuality, New Media Use and Pornography: Beginning to Address the Elephant on the Screen Marshall D. Smith (University of Colorado-Boulder) Preference Effect on Friendship Choice: Evidence from an Online Field Experiment Siyu Yu (University of California-Berkeley), Yu Xie (University of Michigan) 5. Games and Gaming Table Presider: Jenny Davis (Texas A&M University) A Qualitative Analysis on How Online Gamers Perceived the Role of Self and Community Jan Ballesteros (California State University-Fullerton) Voices of Command, Bodies in Peril: The Female in Video Games Nick James LaLone (Texas State University-San Marcos) Interaction Rituals in Second Life Zachary Louis Sommer (University of California-Riverside) Impression Management in a Virtual World: Hyperperformativity and Authenticity Dilemma in Second Life Ryoko Yamamoto (State University of New York-Old Westbury) 6. Cultures of Technology Table Presider, Laura Robinson (Santa Clara University) A Conceptual Analysis of the Digital Document in Online Self-documentation Nathan Michael Jurgenson (University of Maryland-College Park) Equal Participation versus Power Concentration in South Korean Online Public Sphere Jeong-han Kang (Yonsei University), Jin-Wook Shin (Chung-Ang University), Young-Jin Kim (Yonsei University), Daehoon Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Nationalist Campaigns: Place-making on Facebook Didem Turkoglu (University of North Carolina) Policy to Remake the Cultural Hierarchy of Foreign Popular Culture in the Reform Era China Lu Chen (University of Hong Kong) Mon, Aug 20 - 11:30 - 12:10pm - CITASA Business Meeting & Award Presentation Mon, Aug 20 - 12:30pm - 2:10pm The Cultures of Technology Not Your Mother's Big Brother: Technology as an Entry Point into Privacy, Culture, and the Social Roles and Relationships of Today's Families Christena Nippert-Eng (Illinois Institute of Technology) Logistical Politics and Cultures of Technology Chandra Mukerji (University of California-San Diego) A Cosmopolitan Perspective for the Study of Media Technologies Pablo J. Boczkowski (Northwestern University), Ignacio Siles (Northwestern University) Scopic Media Karin D. Knorr Cetina (University of Chicago) Mon, Aug 20 - 2:30-4:10 The Sociology of Social Media The Nature of Social Network Sites: Adoption, Use and Types Grant Blank (University of Oxford), Darja Groselj (University of Oxford) Becoming a Tweep: How Prior Online Experiences Influence Twitter Use Eszter Hargittai (Northwestern University), Eden Litt (Northwestern University) Mapping an Ecology of Privacy: A Cross-national Comparison of Control of Self-presentation Online Emma S. Spiro (University of California-Irvine), Nicole M. Pierski (University of California-Irvine), Carter T. Butts (University of California-Irvine) Who Mobilizes Who on Social Network Site? Interactive Centrality Theory and Chinese Twitter Network Danzhi Cai (Tsinghua University) This Protest Will Be Tweeted: Twitter and Protest Policing during the Pittsburgh G20 Jennifer Earl (University of Arizona), Heather McKee Hurwitz (University of California-Santa Barbara), Analicia Mejia Mesinas (University of California-Irvine), Margaret Tolan (University of California-Santa Barbara), Ashley Arlotti (University of California-Santa Barbara) Other Sessions and Papers of Interest FRIDAY 8:30-10:10 Social Stratification and Internet Practices Presider: Keith N. Hampton (University of Pennsylvania) Intellectual Collaboration in an Online Scientific Community Wooseok Jung (Northwestern University), Okyu Kwon (Pohang University of Science and Technology), Brian Uzzi (Northwestern University) Job Search 2.0: Explaining Differences in Young Adults' Online Job-seeking Practices Eszter Hargittai (Northwestern University), Cassidy Puckett (Northwestern University) Who Produces Content? Social Stratification and Content Production on the Internet Grant Blank (University of Oxford) Privacy Protection Strategies on Facebook: The Internet Privacy Paradox Revisited Alyson Leigh Young (University of Maryland-Baltimore County), Anabel Quan-Haase (University of Western Ontario) Discussant: Lee Humphreys (Cornell University) SATURDAY - 12:30pm - 2:10pm Critical Perspectives on the Internet and Society Presider: Lee Humphreys (Cornell University) Digital Events: Media Rituals in the Digital Age Lisa Marie Lipscomb (The New School for Social Research) Is There Such a Thing as an Online Health Lifestyle? Timothy M. Hale (University of Alabama-Birmingham) What Frontier? Visualizing Social and Geographic Internet Spaces through iBorders Soo Mee Kim (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Discussant: Laura Robinson (Santa Clara University) SUNDAY 4:30-6:10 Striving to Succeed: Social Mobility and Information Capital in the Digital Age Laura Robinson (Santa Clara University), paper in Inequality, Poverty and Mobility Section session --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------