Greetings everyone ~ August, and the annual meetings in Montreal, are fast approaching. The main date for CITAMS sessions will be on Saturday, August 12. Below, specific info on session times and locations. Hope to see you there! Best, ~ Jessie ** * *030 - Roundtable Session Time: Sat, August 12, 8:30 to 9:30amPlace: Palais des congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 517BBusiness Meeting (following 9:30am-10:10am)* *065 - Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology. Race, Social Movements and Digital Media Technologies* *Sat, August 12, 10:30am to 12:10pm, Palais des congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 513C* Description: From the rise of #BlackLivesMatter to the spread of alt-right memes like "Pepe," the ubiquity of digital media technologies has significant implications for social movements. This open session welcomes papers that offer sociological insights into the ways these technologies reconfigure our understanding of social movements. - *The Effect of #BlackLivesMatter: The Significance of Communities and Collective Identity* - Simon Weffer-Elizondo, Northern Illinois University; Stephanie Delise Jones, University of California, Irvine - *Hate Speech Online and the Fight for Legal Protection: The Case of Japan* - Vivian Shaw, University of Texas at Austin - *The Master’s Tools Reimagined: Police Militarization and Strategies of Black Digital Resistance* - Caliesha Lavonne Comley, Boston College - *Black Women and the Subversive Occupation of Digital Space* - Leslie Jones, University of Pennsylvania *107 - Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology. Culture, Inequality and Social Inclusion in the Digital Era* *Sat, August 12, 2:30 to 4:10pm, Palais des congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 513B* Description: Following this year's conference theme, how do we understand sociological concepts of culture, inequality and social inclusion in the digital era? How are we using digital technologies to create more open and inclusive cultures? In what ways are we using these technologies to justify and sustain inequality? Papers for this open session should shed light on key theoretical or methodological issues that arise from digital media technologies. - *Free Speech, Representation and Inclusion on Social Media Platforms* - Zeynep Tufekci, University of North Carolina - S*kills Gaps, Surveillance, and Hope in Training at a High-Tech Charter School* - Daniel Greene, Microsoft Research New England - *The Digital Hustle: Precarious labor of high and low status workers in the "gig" economy* - Julia B. Ticona, University of Virginia - *Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Biotechnology and the Future of Wearable Tech* - Elizabeth A. Wissinger, City University of New York/BMCC - *The Pipeline of Online Participation Inequalities: The Case of Wikipedia Editing* - Aaron Shaw, Northwestern University; Eszter Hargittai, University of Zurich *Jessie Daniels* Professor, Sociology, Hunter College-CUNY [image: photo] Website: http://www.jessiedaniels.net In the new york times: http://bit.ly/LTE_2016 New book: http://bit.ly/Going_Public <http://twitter.com/JessieNYC> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/jessiedaniels/> Racism Review Trump’s Impact on Americans of Color <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/racismreview/nYnz/~3/vN5ru-EqzU8/>