Congratulations to our section's 2011 Award winners! And thanks to the committees for taking on the difficult task of selecting among the exciting work that is happening in our section.

Please join us at 8:30 on Monday August 22 for our combined roundtable session and business meeting when we will present awards.

CITASA William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award
James E. Katz, Rutgers University

CITASA Paper Award
Hampton, Keith N., Oren Livio and Lauren Sessions Goulet. 2010. "The Social Life of Wireless Urban Spaces:  Internet Use, Social Networks, and the Public Realm" Journal of Communication 60: 701-722.

CITASA Student Paper Award

Dmitry Epstein, Cornell University, "Who's Responsible for the Digital Divide? Public Perceptions and Policy Implications."  co-authored with Erik Nisbet and Tarleton Gillespie.  Published in 2011 in "The Information Society" 27(2), 92-104.

Honorable Mention:

Michael Conover, Indiana University, "Political Polarization on Twitter."  Co-authored with Jacob Ratkiewicz, M. Francisco, Bruno Gonçalves, Sandro Flammini, and Fil Menczer. In the proceedings of ICWSM 2011.

CITASA Book Award
Pablo Boczkowski, News at Work: Imitation in an Age of Information Abundance (University of Chicago Press, 2010).

CITASA Award for Public Sociology
Lee Rainie, Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project

Hope to see you all in Las Vegas,

Dr. Gina Neff
Assistant Professor
Deparatment of Communication
University of Washington

Chair-Elect
Communication and Information Section
American Sociological Association

Hiya.
We have a job, or two, this year. Please consider applying.

Andrea H. Tapia, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
Affiliate Associate Professor of (1) Labor and Industrial Relations, (2) Sociology and (3) Science and Technology Studies
Penn State University

Check out my pages!
http://andreatapia.net
http://cohort.ist.psu.edu
http://evosta.ist.psu.edu
http://emerse.ist.psu.edu
http://ist.psu.edu

2012 Summer Research Institute for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems
July 29 – August 2, 2011 – The Bishop’s Lodge Resort, Santa Fe, NM, USA

Application: Screening begins March 9th, 2012
Eligibility: Advanced doctoral students, post-doctoral scholars and pre-tenure faculty at US-based institutions

Notification: Early April 2012
Cost: reasonable expenses will be covered for all accepted participants

Background
A science of socio-technical systems is emerging from research in the fields of CSCW, social computing, social informatics, the sociology of computing, HCI, information systems and other related intellectual communities. The Consortium for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems (CSST, see www.sociotech.net) is an organization devoted to advancing research on socio-technical systems. Building on the success of the three previous Summer Research Institutes, the CSST will, with generous support by the National Science Foundation, again be hosting a summer research institute for advanced doctoral students, post-doctoral scholars, and pre-tenure faculty. A primary goal of the institute is to build a new cohort of faculty and graduate students who are interested in research on the design and interplay of the social and technical that spans levels of individuals, groups, organizations, and larger communities. Examples of this kind of work include research on:

• new forms of organizing (e.g., virtual organizations, massive online activities)

• social computing (e.g., online communities, online social networks);

• distributed work (e.g., collaboratories, virtual teams);

• technology and work in context (e.g. healthcare informatics, IT and journalism, eScience)

• emerging technologies (e.g., recommender systems, prediction markets);

• novel forms of production (e.g., open source software, Wikipedia);

• new forms of expression and entertainment (e.g., blogs, wikis, massively
  multiplayer online role-playing games);

• information and communication technologies for developing regions (e.g., cell phone-based applications to assist economic development, infrastructure development for local economic action).

Institute mentors
The institute has assembled a faculty of distinguished scholars in the domain of socio-technical systems to serve as mentors. This includes the followingleading scholars, in addition to others from both industry and government:

• Brian Butler, University of Maryland, Director
• Andrea Tapia, Pennsylvania State University, Assistant Director
• Geoff Bowker, UCI
• Tom Erickson, IBM
• Wayne Lutters, UMBC
• Tony Salvador, Intel
• Steve Sawyer, Syracuse University
• Diane Bailey, University of Texas – Austin
• Bonnie Nardi - UCI

Institute goals
The goals of the institute are to:

• Expand on and strengthen connections among the cohort of researchers in this area, and build on the network of relations formed through the prior Summer Research Institutes.
• Guide the work of the new researchers by interacting with experts in socio-technical systems science. Provide encouragement and support for the selection of socio-technical systems research topics.
• Illustrate the interrelationship and diversity of the field of socio-technical systems research.

How the institute will be conducted
The institute will be conducted as a residential program at the Bishop’s Lodge Resort outside Santa Fe, New Mexico (http://www.bishopslodge.com/) with a combination of small group sessions devoted to providing feedback onparticipant's research and larger group sessions consisting of panels and presentations led by the Institute's mentors. These sessions will cover research topics such as core principles and viable research methods and also career development, how to obtain funding, and publication strategies. Timeeach afternoon will be reserved for informal recreational activities. All reasonable, pre-paid costs of participation, including travel, lodging, and meals are covered by support from NSF.

How to apply
The application process requires three parts:

1. A 350 word response to the question: How will your research contribute to advancing our scientific understanding of socio-technical systems? A few core citations may be helpful in framing your answer, especially if they are not to your own work. (The accompanying reference list does not apply toward your word count.)

2. Your current curriculum vitae.

3. Your contact information and affiliation: your name, your current U.S.-based institution and affiliation, your preferred email address, and your status (PhD candidate, post-doctoral scholar, pre-tenure faculty, or an explanation of some other status).

Please email your application materials as attachments using PDF or a common word processing format to bsbutler@umd.edu with “CSST 2012” in the subject line.

Please also note that participation in this institute will be restricted to doctoral candidates who have advanced to candidacy by the time of submission up through pre-tenure faculty who are at US institutions.
This includes post-doctoral scholars who are not in tenure-track positions if they are less than five years fromhaving completed their doctorate.

Selection and notification
All applications will be reviewed by the institute director, associate director, and all mentors. Selection will reflect the following criteria:

·      Clear articulation of the research contribution to socio-technical systems (theory, practice or design);

·      Clear development of socio-technical concepts and principles relative to your research interests;

·      A career point where participation in the institution would be of greatest practical value;

·      Contribution to a balanced anddiverse group of participants.

Additional information
For further information please visitwww.sociotech.net, e-mail bsbutler@umd.edu, or speak with prior Institute participants at CSST workshops or on our Facebook group -- "Researchers of the Socio-Technical."

Andrea H. Tapia, Ph.D. (Dra. Andrea H. Tapia)
Becaria Fulbright 2012

Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
Affiliate Associate Professor of (1) Labor and Industrial Relations, (2)Sociology and (3) Science and Technology Studies
Penn State University-University Park, USA

Gestion del Riesgo en Desastres y Atención de Emergencias
Sección de Sismología, Vulcanología y Exploración Geofísica
Escuela Centroamericana de Geología
Universidad de Costa Rica

Check out my pages!
http://andreatapia.nethttp://andreatapia.net/
http://cohort.ist.psu.eduhttp://cohort.ist.psu.edu/
http://evosta.ist.psu.eduhttp://evosta.ist.psu.edu/
http://emerse.ist.psu.eduhttp://emerse.ist.psu.edu/
http://ist.psu.eduhttp://ist.psu.edu/