Good morning, everyone -- or whatever it is wherever you are. :) For those of you who have not yet made up your minds about the session to which you want to submit your 2011 ASA paper, I've had a look through the ASA's list of sessions. I've selected the most obvious ones -- including our own -- and cut and pasted them below. Wherever you send your paper, wherever you present, do *not* forget to also submit your work for consideration in our special issue of the ICS next year! (That call goes out in September, usually.) Keep in mind that what we do infuses nearly every single session's focus. Your work may well be essential for a session that doesn't mention anything about CITs. Submit it there, too! Go forth. Be brave. Help spread the word. :) In the meantime, I hope this is helpful. See you in Las Vegas! (Can you believe it?) CNE Submission Deadline: January 13, 2011, 3PM EST Regular Sessions Internet and Communication Technology. Barry Wellman, University of Toronto Survelliance. Dan Ryan, Jr., Mills College Section Sessions Section on Communication and Information Technology 1. Privacy in the Digital Age (co-sponsored with the Section on Sociology of Law and Section on Sociology of Culture). Session Organizers: Eszter Hargittai, Northwestern University; Francesca Polletta, University of California-Irvine; John Sutton, University of California-Santa Barbara; Stephen Valocchi, Trinity College 2. New Media Frontiers. Session Organizer: Laura Robinson, Santa Clara University 3. Section on Communication and Information Technologies Roundtables (one-hour). Session Organizer: Carey Sergent, University of Virginia Section on Sociology of Law 1. Privacy in the Digital Age: Law, Culture, and Contention I (co-sponsored with the Section on Communication and Information Technology and Section on Sociology of Culture). Recent controversies around Internet privacy call for sociological perspectives on the law, politics, and culture of privacy in the digital age. How are people understanding privacy, and the boundaries between the public and private, in their use of the web? Are legal models for regulating privacy proving up to the task of the new digital technologies? Is mobilization around privacy issues based in preexisting civil liberties organizations and frames or is it tapping new groups and themes? We invite empirical papers discussing these and other questions related to the theme of privacy in the digital age. Session Organizer: Jennifer Earl, University of California-Santa Barbara Section on Environment & Technology 1. Open Topic on Environment and Technology (2 sessions). Session Organizer: Beth Schaefer Caniglia, Oklahoma State University 2. Section on Environment & Technology Roundtables (one-hour). Session Organizer: Beth Schaefer Caniglia, Oklahoma State University Section on Science, Knowledge & Technology 1. Internet and Identity. Internet, or more generally the '‘world wide web', has transformed social interactions, economic practices, and political engagements as never before. The issue here is not merely of a space-time compression that has resulted in making interactions faster and easier: Rather, internet has become the basis of new modalities of interactions that were not possible earlier. This session seeks to engage with different facets of the relationship between internet and identity. The aim is to sociologically explore how transformations in the internet technologies have been crucial to and concatenated with formations and articulations of identities in different domains of the society. Session Organizers: Amit Prasad, University of Missouri-Columbia, and Aneesh Aneesh, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology Roundtables (one-hour). This time block will be divided. One hour will be devoted to round table sessions, and we will spend the final forty minutes conducting the SKAT section Business Meeting. Roundtables will be thematically grouped, with no more than four presenters per table. Interested scholars are encouraged to submit work on any topic likely to be of interest to the diverse membership of SKAT. At the round tables, presenters will have roughly seven minutes to put forth the central highlights of their work. The remainder of the period will be devoted to discussion by all at the table. Session Organizers: Kathleen Oberlin, Indiana University and Wendy McGuire, University of Toronto You can find the full session listings here: http://asanet.org/images/meetings/docs/pdf/Listing_of_Topics.pdf Christena Nippert-Eng, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Sociology www.islandsofprivacy.com http://www.iit.edu/csl/socs/faculty/nippert_christena.shtml Acting Chair, Department of Social Sciences, IIT Chair, American Sociological Association Section on Communication and Information Technologies 312-567-6812 (office) 312-567-6821 (fax)