Dear all, While browsing through our official website (http://www.citasa.org), I thought of a useful addition: a list of conferences and journals that we consider most useful and interesting. This would be particularly useful to our new members (including myself, I should note), who are just starting their adventure with CITASA and may not know what are the estabilished conferences and 'need-to-read' journals in our field. Do you think this would be a worthwhile addition to the website? If so, perhaps we can brainstorm the additions here, and then whoever is responsible for the website can pick through our suggestions and add them there? To start, here are some thoughts (the below list is certainly not comprehensive, and represents only my limited experience): Conferences * WikiSym / International Symposium on Wikis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiSym) * Wikimania (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimania) Journals * First Monday (http://firstmonday.org/) * International Journal of Information and Communication Technology (http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijict) * International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education (IJICTE) (http://www.igi-global.com/journals/details.asp?id=4287) * Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning (http://itdl.org/index.htm0 * Journal of Information Technology & Politics (JITP) (http://www.jitp.net/) * New Media & Society (http://nms.sagepub.com/) -- Piotr Konieczny "The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in reality, not in theory."

Perhaps the conference for the Association of Internet Researchers? It's in Wisconson this year. Here's the website to the conference: http://ir10.aoir.org/ > Dear all, > > While browsing through our official website (http://www.citasa.org), I > thought of a useful addition: a list of conferences and journals that we > consider most useful and interesting. This would be particularly useful > to our new members (including myself, I should note), who are just > starting their adventure with CITASA and may not know what are the > estabilished conferences and 'need-to-read' journals in our field. > > Do you think this would be a worthwhile addition to the website? If so, > perhaps we can brainstorm the additions here, and then whoever is > responsible for the website can pick through our suggestions and add > them there? > > To start, here are some thoughts (the below list is certainly not > comprehensive, and represents only my limited experience): > > Conferences > * WikiSym / International Symposium on Wikis > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiSym) > * Wikimania (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimania) > > Journals > * First Monday (http://firstmonday.org/) > * International Journal of Information and Communication Technology > (http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijict) > * International Journal of Information and Communication Technology > Education (IJICTE) > (http://www.igi-global.com/journals/details.asp?id=4287) > * Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning > (http://itdl.org/index.htm0 > * Journal of Information Technology & Politics (JITP) > (http://www.jitp.net/) > * New Media & Society (http://nms.sagepub.com/) > > > -- > Piotr Konieczny > > "The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in reality, not in > theory." > > > _______________________________________________ > CITASA mailing list > CITASA@list.citasa.org > http://list.citasa.org/mailman/listinfo/citasa_list.citasa.org > > -- Steven Dashiell, MA student Department of Sociology University of Maryland, Baltimore County phone (410) 244-0476 email sdashie1@umbc.edu

This sounds like a good idea to me. It could help improve the resources tab of the website. I'd like to see what the list thinks about the different suggestions, though. So, if we can post them to the list so that members can comment, that would be good. If I don't hear anything about a particular resource, I'll go ahead and post it. One suggestion, though. Along with a title and a link (e.g. New Media & Society (http://nms.sagepub.com/)), give a sentence or two about why it's a good resource, who the intended audience is, what it's main theme or content is, etc. Right now the resources tab is a long list of links which you have to follow to figure out what they are. It'd be good to have a little information up front and it'll help me organize the resources into appropriate categories. Will Anderson Communications Coordinator CITASA ________________________________________ From: citasa-bounces@list.citasa.org [citasa-bounces@list.citasa.org] On Behalf Of Piotr Konieczny [piokon@post.pl] Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 5:21 PM To: citasa@list.citasa.org Subject: [CITASA] Suggested addition to CITASA site: useful conferences and journals Dear all, While browsing through our official website (http://www.citasa.org), I thought of a useful addition: a list of conferences and journals that we consider most useful and interesting. This would be particularly useful to our new members (including myself, I should note), who are just starting their adventure with CITASA and may not know what are the estabilished conferences and 'need-to-read' journals in our field. Do you think this would be a worthwhile addition to the website? If so, perhaps we can brainstorm the additions here, and then whoever is responsible for the website can pick through our suggestions and add them there? To start, here are some thoughts (the below list is certainly not comprehensive, and represents only my limited experience): Conferences * WikiSym / International Symposium on Wikis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiSym) * Wikimania (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimania) Journals * First Monday (http://firstmonday.org/) * International Journal of Information and Communication Technology (http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijict) * International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education (IJICTE) (http://www.igi-global.com/journals/details.asp?id=4287) * Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning (http://itdl.org/index.htm0 * Journal of Information Technology & Politics (JITP) (http://www.jitp.net/) * New Media & Society (http://nms.sagepub.com/) -- Piotr Konieczny "The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in reality, not in theory." _______________________________________________ CITASA mailing list CITASA@list.citasa.org http://list.citasa.org/mailman/listinfo/citasa_list.citasa.org

Here are a few. Note I've never been to CHI or KDD, but I have read some of the papers from those conferences. I have attended all of the others at least once: ICWSM - International Conference on Weblogging and Social Media http://www.icwsm.org This is a cross-disciplinary conference, where you'll see papers on machine learning techniques for identifying spam, psychological studies of comment response patterns, and ethnographic analysis of social networking services all in the same place. It's coming along nicely, and I'd like to see more Sociologists presenting their work. It's focused on weblogs and web 2.0, but you can definitely use those as a data source for sociological analysis and get good traction. WWW - (primarily the section on social networking) http://www.www2009.org This is one of the most competitive CS conferences out there - a main track paper here is the equivalent of a publication in AJS or ASR, although you'll be hard pressed to convince most Sociology departments that any conference paper is worth anything. The section on social networking is usually excellent. Given the expense and the high barrier for entry (they won't take a basic statistical analysis of some online network - you'd better be looking at a million nodes and doing something technically interesting in addition to gleaning meaningful sociological insights) it's probably not for everyone, but if you get a chance you should go at least once - and definitely dig out the proceedings and see if there's anything of interest to you. HICSS - Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (digital spaces and persistent conversations tracks) http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu This conference gets mixed reviews, but the sociological, social psychological, and HCI tracks (named above) are good. I personally did not find much utility in the social networks tracks, but I have highly specific needs, so maybe you'll get some use out of it. This is akin to a minor publication, and they do encourage resubmission to a journal although I think a lot of the folks who publish there are CS types who focus more on conference pubs than journals. CHI - ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction http://www.chi2009.org I know little about CHI, but I have seen some nuggets of interesting social science come out of here. Pay attention to the proceedings, and maybe you'll be in a position to publish there someday. It's one of the main HCI conferences. For the more technically oriented among us, KDD often has items of sociological interest mixed in with the crazy technical data mining papers. Note - apart from HICSS, all of these conferences are final publication venues - you should not re-use the same paper and publish it someplace else. Sunbelt (the INSNA conference) and ASA are worth attending, but they are not publication venues. -Tom On Feb 4, 2009, at 9:24 AM, William A Anderson wrote: > This sounds like a good idea to me. It could help improve the > resources tab of the website. > > I'd like to see what the list thinks about the different > suggestions, though. So, if we can post them to the list so that > members can comment, that would be good. If I don't hear anything > about a particular resource, I'll go ahead and post it. > > One suggestion, though. Along with a title and a link (e.g. New > Media & Society (http://nms.sagepub.com/)), give a sentence or two > about why it's a good resource, who the intended audience is, what > it's main theme or content is, etc. Right now the resources tab is > a long list of links which you have to follow to figure out what > they are. It'd be good to have a little information up front and > it'll help me organize the resources into appropriate categories. > > Will Anderson > Communications Coordinator > CITASA > ________________________________________ > From: citasa-bounces@list.citasa.org [citasa- > bounces@list.citasa.org] On Behalf Of Piotr Konieczny [piokon@post.pl] > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 5:21 PM > To: citasa@list.citasa.org > Subject: [CITASA] Suggested addition to CITASA site: useful > conferences and journals > > Dear all, > > While browsing through our official website (http://www.citasa.org), I > thought of a useful addition: a list of conferences and journals > that we > consider most useful and interesting. This would be particularly > useful > to our new members (including myself, I should note), who are just > starting their adventure with CITASA and may not know what are the > estabilished conferences and 'need-to-read' journals in our field. > > Do you think this would be a worthwhile addition to the website? If > so, > perhaps we can brainstorm the additions here, and then whoever is > responsible for the website can pick through our suggestions and add > them there? > > To start, here are some thoughts (the below list is certainly not > comprehensive, and represents only my limited experience): > > Conferences > * WikiSym / International Symposium on Wikis > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiSym) > * Wikimania (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimania) > > Journals > * First Monday (http://firstmonday.org/) > * International Journal of Information and Communication Technology > (http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijict) > * International Journal of Information and Communication Technology > Education (IJICTE) (http://www.igi-global.com/journals/details.asp? > id=4287) > * Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning > (http://itdl.org/index.htm0 > * Journal of Information Technology & Politics (JITP) (http:// > www.jitp.net/) > * New Media & Society (http://nms.sagepub.com/) > > > -- > Piotr Konieczny > > "The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in reality, not in > theory." > > > _______________________________________________ > CITASA mailing list > CITASA@list.citasa.org > http://list.citasa.org/mailman/listinfo/citasa_list.citasa.org > > _______________________________________________ > CITASA mailing list > CITASA@list.citasa.org > http://list.citasa.org/mailman/listinfo/citasa_list.citasa.org