Hi folks, I am writing to invite you to join CITASA for a pre-conference workshop before this year's ASAs. Our CITASA Symposium entitled [New] Media Cultures is co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for New Media. The Symposium is on August 15th--the day before the ASA Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Visit www.citasasymposium.info<http://www.citasasymposium.info> for more information. See you in the Bay Area in August! Please feel free to forward this to other groups that might be interested and to distribute widely. Also, I am attaching a flyer on a related event that might also be of interest-a datathon to be held before this year's ASAs too. Hope you can catch at least one of these! Best, Jenn ****** [Captionless image] Call For Abstracts and Participation CITASA Symposium: [New] Media Cultures Sponsored by CITASA & the UC Berkeley Center for New Media Venue: UC Berkeley Sutardja Dai Hall Symposium Date: August 15, 2014 Abstract Submission Deadline: March 1, 2014 Notification of Acceptances: March 15, 2014 citasasymposium.info<http://www.citasasymposium.info> #citasa14 The CITASA Symposium Committee is delighted to announce the call for abstracts for the 2014 Symposium entitled [New] Media Cultures. Sponsored by CITASA and the UC Berkeley Center for New Media, the Symposium is on August 15th--the day before the ASA Annual Meeting in San Francisco. We welcome submissions on any facet of culture, communication, and [new] media as broadly defined as possible. Themes that come to mind are the interplay between [new] media and any of the following: culture, communication, technology, convergence, the arts, cultural production, cultural change in the digital age-and of course anything else [new] media or communication or culture scholars find intriguing... Presentations will be eligible for submission to the 2015 Volume IV of Emerald Studies in Media and Communication entitled [New] Media Cultures (see www.emeraldmediastudies.com/<http://www.emeraldmediastudies.com/>). Space is limited. The deadline for submitting an abstract is March 1, 2014 (notification by March 15). Please send submissions including your name, email, and an abstract of 200-750 words outlining your research to: citasasymposium@gmail.com<mailto:citasasymposium@gmail.com> by March 1st. Thinking about attending the Datathon? Join us for both events on the UC Berkeley campus! (see http://ipk.nyu.edu/initiatives/datathons or apply at http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1516540/datathon). IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: March 1, 2014 Acceptance Notification: March 15, 2014 Registration Due: March 31, 2014 Symposium: August 15, 2014 at UC Berkeley, Sutardja Dai Hall WEB Site: www.citasasymposium.info<http://www.citasasymposium.info> Twitter: #citasa14 Contact Email: citasasymposium@gmail.com<mailto:citasasymposium@gmail.com> SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE Laura Robinson, Blanca Gordo, Nalini Kotamraju, Gina Neff, Jennifer Earl, Gabe Ignatow, Jenny Davis, Sara Schoonmaker, Joy Hightower, Whitney Boesel, Nathan Jurgenson, & Jen Schradie *********************************** Jennifer Earl Professor of Sociology Social Sciences 421 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721-0027 Phone: (520) 621-3296 ***********************************