Mark your calenders for the Sessions organized by our section 4. CITASA sessions The Social Impacts of Technology and Information‎ Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 15 - 8:30am - 10:10am Building: Atlanta Marriott ‎Marquis Session Organizer: Shelia R. Cotten (University of Alabama - Birmingham) ‎ The Best of Two Worlds? Internet Use, Online Communication, and ‎Social Networks ‎*Wenhong Chen (University of Texas at Austin)‎ The Digital Campaign: How Barack Obama Achieved the Dream Cynthia Love (Siena College), *Sudarat Musikawong (Siena College)‎ You Can Teach An Old Dog New Tricks ‎*Vicki Winstead (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Elizabeth Allyne Yost ‎‎(University of Alabama at Birmingham), Shelia R. Cotten (University of Alabama - ‎Birmingham), William A. Anderson (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Amanda ‎M. Warr (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Ronald William Berkowsky ‎‎(University of Alabama at Birmingham)‎ Well-Being and Internet Use ‎*Paul A. Rey (University of Maryland), *Zeynep Tufekci (University of Maryland, ‎Baltimore County)‎ Presider: Shelia R. Cotten (University of Alabama - Birmingham) ‎ Social Media and Social Capital Scheduled Time: Sun, Aug 15 - 10:30am - 12:10pm Building: Atlanta Marriott ‎Marquis Session Organizer: Gustavo S. Mesch (University of Haifa) ‎ Dear AskMe, Can Building Networks and Reading Random Articles Help ‎Me Solve Other People’s Problems?‎ ‎*Alexandra Marin (University of Toronto)‎ Internet Use and Social Ties of Americans: An Analysis of General Social ‎Survey Data ‎*Zeynep Tufekci (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)‎ Social Capital and Communication Multiplexity in Social Relationship ‎Maintenance: An Alternative Theoretical Approach‎ ‎*Yu-Li Hsieh (Northwestern University), Eszter Hargittai (Northwestern University)‎ Social Influence and Group Pressure: the Logic of Internet-Enabled ‎Collective Action ‎*Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon (Nuffield College, University of Oxford)‎ Talking over the crowd: A Discourse Analysis on comments from Special ‎topic blogs ‎*Ibrahim Halil Yucel (Penn State University)‎ Section Roundtables Organizer Tim Hale, U of Alabama Sun, Aug 15 - 2:30pm - 3:30pm Building: Atlanta Marriott Marquis Roundtable 1: Tie Interdependencies in Email Communication Networks ‎*Ofer Engel (London School of Economics and Political Science)‎ The effect of Social Networking Sites, e-mail, I.M. and Weblogs on Self ‎Esteem:‎ ‎*Gustavo S. Mesch (University of Haifa)‎ Are Gender and Race Important Factors Shaping the Use and ‎Consequences of Email to Family?‎ ‎*Noelle A. Chesley (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Briana Fox (SER-Jobs for ‎Progress)‎ Roundtable 2: Technological Influences on Social Ties across the Lifespan ‎*Brandi Marie McCullough (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), *Shelia R. ‎Cotten (University of Alabama - Birmingham),*Rebecca G. Adams (University of ‎North Carolina at Greensboro)‎ Using Affordable Technology To Bridge The Digital Divide: Results from ‎Birmingham’s XO Laptop Project ‎*Shelia R. Cotten (University of Alabama - Birmingham), *Timothy M. Hale ‎‎(University of Alabama at Birmingham), Michael Howell-Moroney (University of ‎Alabama at Birmingham), LaToya J. ONeal (University of Alabama-Birmingham)‎ Digital adaptability: New construct and measure for digital inequality ‎research ‎*Cassidy Puckett (Northwestern University)‎ Roundtable 3 Socioeconomic inequality, education and social capital: What factors ‎shape social network growth among college students?‎ ‎*Howard T. Welser (Ohio University), Brandon Brooks (Ohio University), Bernard ‎Hogan (University of Toronto), Scott Titsworth (Ohio University)‎ Affordances for Networked Activism: Evaluating the capacities of ‎social movement sites to connect and motivate activists ‎*Nina Cesare (Ohio University), *Howard T. Welser (Ohio University)‎ Chinese Netizens and China’s Democratization:The Political ‎Consequences of the Rise of the Chinese Netizens ‎*Ya-Wen Lei (University of Michigan)‎ Roundtable 4 Cultural Fragmentation, Popular Culture, and Changing Perceptions of ‎Deviance Among Generation Y.‎ ‎*J. M. Larshus (SUNY-Albany), William J. Kinney (University of St. Thomas)‎ More than a Panic: Correlates of the Importance of Drugs and ‎Unemployment ‎*Jarrett Alan Thibodeaux (Vanderbilt University)‎ Terri's Fate: Regional and Political Differences in the Discussion of the ‎End of Life Outcomes ‎*Katy Schindler (Florida State University), *JoEllen Pederson (Florida State ‎University)‎ Rountable 5 Social Justice and the Virtualization of Health and Illness in the Age of ‎Biological Citizenship.‎ ‎*Alexander Stingl (Pompeii-Project EU)‎ The Golden Era: Authenticity, Invented Tradition and Hip-Hop History ‎*Michael Barnes (California State University, Long Beach)‎ Transformative Social Processes of Cyberspace: Applying the Theories ‎of Durkheim and Weber to the Internet ‎*David Drissel (Iowa Central Community College)‎ Roundtable 6 Measuring Electronic Government Procurement Success and Testing ‎for the Moderating Effect of Computer Self-efficacy ‎*Chyi-Lu Jang (National Sun Yat-Sen University)‎ Strategic Choice Models in a Globalized Marketplace: Perspectives ‎through the RBV and TCE Theoretical Lenses ‎*Zengie Mangaliso (Westfield State College), Mzamo P. Mangaliso (Eugene M. ‎Isenberg School of Management, UMass/Amherst)‎ Roundtable 7 A Comparison of Promoter and Listener Preferences for Popular Music ‎Artists ‎*Patricia L. Donze (University of California-Los Angeles)‎ Institutional Structures of Online Knowledge Production: Wikipedia, ‎Knol, and Citizendium ‎*Edo Navot (University of Wisconsin - Madison)‎ Science's Taste for Open Access ‎*James A. Evans (University of Chicago)‎ Roundtable 8 Table Presider: John P. Robinson (University of Maryland) ‎ Status Dynamics in Online Gift Exchange: How Competition and the ‎Spread of Status Value Shape Reciprocity ‎*Patrick Park (Cornell University)‎ The Outreach of Barack Obama to the African American Community ‎Using Online Social Networking ‎*Cynthia Love (Siena College), Sudarat Musikawong (Siena College)‎ IT, TV AND Time Displacement: A 45-Year Comparison ‎*John P. Robinson (University of Maryland)‎ Thank you to all the session and roundtable organizers and presiders for their work Gustavo Mesch, CITASA chair