Hi everyone. Just a reminder that the deadline is Sept. 30th. Mike and I hope to have lots of great submissions! Thanks. Shelia Call For Papers: iCS/CITASA Special Issue of Papers from 2012 ASA Meeting‎ Dear Colleagues, ‎ For the sixth year, the journal Information, Communication & Society (iCS, published by Routledge) ‎will publish a special issue in cooperation with the ASA section on Communication ‎and Information Technologies (CITASA). The special issue will be comprised of papers ‎presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Denver, Colorado that focus on issues of social media, technology, communication, information, or other related topics. Shelia Cotten (University of Alabama, Birmingham) and Mike Stern (NORC at the University of Chicago) will be the ‎editors. ‎ We invite you to submit a paper that was presented at the ASA 2012 meetings for consideration in this special ‎issue. Please submit manuscripts for consideration to iCS’s manuscript central website (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rics). After logging, please select “Special Issue” under manuscript type. In addition, do indicate in the cover letter that this submission is for the iCS/CITASA Special Issue of Papers from the 2012 ASA Meetings. Submitted manuscripts should be a maximum of 6,000 words and should conform to the ‎journal's submission guidelines; see http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1369118x.asp. Although you do not have to be a member of CITASA to submit to the iCS/CITASA special issue, if you do work in this area we hope that you will join the CITASA section. Remember, membership is free for students. Students interested in joining CITASA simply need to email Section Chair Dr. Shelia Cotten (cotten@uab.edu<mailto:cotten@uab.edu>) with that request. Deadlines: Full papers due: September 30, 2012 Refereeing completed: November 30, 2012 Final version of accepted papers due: January 10, 2013 Special issue publication (anticipated): June 2013 ‎ Please contact us with any questions. We hope to hear from you. Sincerely, Dr. Shelia Cotten Department of Sociology University of Alabama, Birmingham Chair, Communication and Information Technologies Section<http://citasa.org/>, American Sociological Association Dr. Mike Stern Methodology Fellow NORC at the University of Chicago and Assistant Professor Department of Sociology & Anthropology College of Charleston