Section on Communication and Information Technologies Submission online through ASA homepage www.asanet.org Submission Deadline: January 13, 2010, 3PM EST 1. Social Media and Social Capital. This session will focus on the characteristics of users, forms of use and consequences of the use of social media on social capital. Topics may include Identity formation, the management of privacy, the management of social ties, relationship maintenance and the production of user generated content. Session Organizer: Gustavo S. Mesch, University of Haifa 2. The Social Impacts of Technology and Information. The focus of this session is in innovative studies on access to information through mobile and Internet technologies. In particular, characteristics of individuals accessing news, banking, commercial and health information online, inequalities in access and cultural differences in modes and patterns of access and use and its consequences on their daily life. Session Organizer Sheila Cotten, University of Alabama - Birmingham 3. Section on Communication and Information Technologies Roundtables (one hour). Session Organizer: Timothy M. Hale, University of Alabama-Birmingham and Jenny Korn, University of Illinois-Chicago Gustavo Mesch CITASA Chair