I have attached a copy of the final program for the 2008 CITASA pre-conference on July 31. Breakfast and lunch are provided. Hope to see many of you there. 2008 CITASA PRE-CONFERENCE AND GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP "Worlds of Work: Communication and Information Technologies" Communication and Information Technologies Section of the American Sociological Association (CITASA) July 31, 2008 Boston, MA Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sidney-Pacific Graduate Community Building 70 Pacific Street Cambridge, MA 02139 http://s-p.mit.edu/about_sp/directions.php The CITASA pre-conference and graduate student workshop will be held on July 31, 2008 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. All sessions are open to members of CITASA, the ASA, and the general public. This year's pre-conference builds on the "Worlds of Work" theme of the 103rd annual meeting of the ASA. A detailed program including paper abstracts can be found at http://citasa.org/pre-conference <http://citasa.org/pre-conference> . PROGRAM 8:00‐8:45 Breakfast 8:45‐9:00 Introduction 9:00‐10:00 Keynote and Recipient of the Microsoft CITASA Port 25 Award Researching Free/Libre Open Source Software Communities YuWei Lin (University of Manchester) 10:00‐10:30 Coffee Break 10:30‐12:30 Graduate Students and Mentors Panels Session 1 : Knowledge Technology and Work Mentor Panel Wanda Orlikowski (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Paul DiMaggio (Princeton University) Jane Fountain (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Presentations When Code Meets Place: Collaboration and Innovation at WiFi Hotspots Laura Forlano (Columbia University) Can Knowledge in a Knowledge Production Workplace be Measured Quantitatively? Peter Timusk (University of Ottawa) Managing Customer Relationships During Telephone Sales in the Context of the Global Distribution of Work Between an Offshored and a French Call Center Karine Lan Hing Ting (École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications) Social Construction of the Internet Structure: Comparative Study on Notebook Retailers Between United States and South Korea Ho Young (University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign) Session 2 : Isolation, Interaction and Space in New Technology‐Mediated Communication Mentor Panel Barry Wellman (University of Toronto) William Bainbridge (National Science Foundation) Gustavo Mesch (University of Haifa) Presentations When the Unexpected Occurs: Implications of Context for Copresence and Emotion in Technology‐Mediated Communication Celeste Campos (University of Iowa) and Donna Lancianese (University of Iowa) Warcrack: Examination of Social Isolation Constructs in Players of Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games Steven Dashiell (University of Maryland Baltimore County) Behind an Open Source Project: Combining On‐ and Off‐line Ethnographic Methods Yuri Takhteyev (UC Berkeley) Expressing Territoriality in Social Systems Jennifer Thom‐Santelli (Cornell University) Session 3 : Open Source Software and User Generated Content Mentor Panel Hiroshi Ono (Texas A&M University) YuWei Lin (University of Manchester) Andrea Tapia (Pennsylvania State University) Presentations Integrating Usability Activities into an Open Source Project Hosting Website: The Case of Codeplex Paula Bach (Penn State University) The Social Organization of Free Software Production Alexander Jerneck (University of Pennsylvania) User‐Generated Content and Beyond: Unpaid Labor, Fandom Community Relations, and the Future of Media Production Sue Regonini (University of South Florida) Theorizing the Knowledge‐Based Economy Beyond Polanyi: Lessons from IBM's Pragmatic Embrace of Free and Open Source Software Aaron Shaw (UC Berkeley) 12:30‐1:30 Lunch Sociological Tools for Exploring Computer‐Mediated Collective Action Marc Smith (Microsoft Research) 1:30‐1:45 Break 1:45‐3:15 Session : Work and Information Technology Making the Game work? Lessons from Ethnographies of SingStar Gordon Fletcher (Salford Business School ) and Ben Light (Salford Business School) Distributed Teams, Change Management, and the Standardization of Work at Outsourcing Companies Jacqueline Zalewski (West Chester University) Incorporating Social Context and User‐Centered Design in Creation of an Animated Work Environment James Witte (Clemson University) 3:15‐3:45 Coffee Break 3:45‐5:15 Graduate Students and Mentors Panels Session 4 : Organization and Design of Online Knowledge Communities Mentor Panel Barry Wellman (University of Toronto) Wanda Orlikowski (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Jane Fountain (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Presentations Community Innovativeness: A New Perspective on Knowledge Creation Benjamin Addom (Syracuse University) Design Attributes of Wired Residential Communities for Teleworkers Tooran Alizadeh (University of Sydney) Online Recruiting: Where Career, Community and Social Network Research Meet Elfi Ettinger (University of Twente) Session 5 : Online Public Discourse Mentor Panel Paul DiMaggio (Princeton University) William Bainbridge (National Science Foundation) Gustavo Mesch (University of Haifa) Presentations Consider the Relationship: The Role of Internet Based Technologies in Health Information Seeking Kristen Berg (University of Toronto) Elections or Selections? Blogging the Nigerian 2007 General Elections Presley Ifukor (University of Osnabrueck) The Iraq War Debate on Usenet Alex Jenkins (Drexel University) 5:15‐5:30 Closing Remarks RECEPTION August 3: 6:30‐8:30pm Bowling for Social Capital Lucky Strike Lanes, 145 Ipswich Street, Boston (behind Fenway Park) http://www.luckystrikeboston.com/ The ASA Communication and Information Technologies Pre-Conference and Graduate Student Workshop is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft. _______________________________________________ CITASA mailing list CITASA@citasa.org http://citasa.org/mailman/listinfo/citasa_citasa.org