Greetings ~ You are invited to submit your paper for consideration in a special ‎issue of the journal Information, Communication & Society (ICS). For the tenth year, the journal ICS ‎will publish a special issue in cooperation with our section. Eligible papers are those ‎presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association and the Media Pre-Conference in Seattle, Washington. The special issue welcomes papers that focus on any facet of media, technology, communication, information, or related topics. ICS has enabled 'green open access,' <http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/search.php?jtitle=ics&issn=1369-118X&zetocpub=193%7CSSH+Titles&romeopub=193%7CSSH+Titles&fIDnum=|&mode=simple&la=en&version=&source=journal&sourceid=5346>meaning that authors may post pre-print versions of their paper on their own website, in an institutional repository or in a subject repository, such as the SocARXIV <https://socopen.org/2016/07/09/announcing-the-development-of-socarxiv-an-open-social-science-archive/> . Please submit manuscripts for consideration through ScholarOne, available at:http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rics. If you do not have an account, you will need to create one. Also, be sure to check the box for “Special Issue” and indicate “CITAMS” in it, so that it will be routed appropriately. All accepted manuscripts must respect a word limit of 6,000-8,000 words (depending on the number of submissions accepted) and conform to the ‎journal's submission guidelines. *RELEVANT DATES:* *Full papers due: October 31, 2016* Refereeing completed: December 1, 2016 Final version of accepted papers due: January 1, 2017 Special issue publication (anticipated): June 2017 ‎ If you have any questions, please feel free to contact one of the co-editors: - Jessie Daniels: jessiedanielsnyc@gmail.com - Shantel Buggs: sgbuggs@utexas.edu - Apryl Williams: apryl17w@tamu.edu Thank you! *Jessie Daniels* Professor, Sociology, Hunter College-CUNY [image: photo] Website: http://www.jessienyc.com/books.html In the new york times: http://bit.ly/LTE_2016 New book: http://bit.ly/ScholarDigital <http://twitter.com/JessieNYC> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/jessiedaniels/> Racism Review Decolonizing White Sociology <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/racismreview/nYnz/~3/4jMjztNA9Q4/>