[Students-l] Fwd.: ASA Pre-Conference and Student Workshop : Call for Participation

[M.J. Menou]

> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 10:49:57 -0500
> From: "Keith N. Hampton" <khampton at asc.upenn.edu>
> Subject: [Air-L] ASA Pre-Conference and Student Workshop : Call for
> 	Participation
> To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> 
> 
> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
> http://www.citasa.org/pre-conference
> 
> ASA COMMUNICATION & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES PRE-CONFERENCE AND GRADUATE
> STUDENT WORKSHOP
> 
> "Worlds of Work: Communication and Information Technologies"
> 
> July 31, 2008
> Boston, MA
> 
> Submission Deadline: March 1, 2008
> Send Submissions to: CITASA2008 at CITASA.ORG 
> 
> Organized by the Communication and Information Technologies Section of the
> American Sociological Association (CITASA)
> 
> This one day event combines a pre-conference on information and
> communication technologies (ICTs) and "Worlds of Works," building on the
> theme of the 103rd annual meeting of the ASA, and a workshop for 20 selected
> graduate students researching any aspect of the sociology of communications
> or information technologies.
> 
> The program will include a keynote address by the winner of the "Microsoft
> CITASA Port 25 Award," a series of presentations on ICTs and the sociology
> of work, and a series of select student presentations of work-in-progress
> (on diverse themes within the sociological study of communications and IT)
> to both a general audience and to a mentor panel of well known and
> established researchers in the field.
> 
> Communication and information technologies are an important source of change
> in work today, affecting both the ways work is done on a day-to-day basis
> and the long term relations of labor and production.  The different types of
> communication, markets, goods and services enabled by ICTs have allowed new
> work configurations to become prominent, even as they help to reshape
> existing ways of working.
> 
> These new configurations and changed practices are creating altogether
> different kinds of "worlds" in which work is done.  Office work activities
> are increasingly becoming computer-mediated, allowing work to move from
> traditional settings to the home or to virtual environments.  The use of
> ICTs allow the emergence of new organizational forms, ushering in an era of
> globally distributed work no longer as reliant on geographic co-location and
> moving some work processes out of firms and into "communities."  New forms
> of industrial production that challenge many of the traditional ideas about
> work are becoming more common, open source software development being the
> primary example and providing serious challenges to the traditional
> sociology of work.
> 
> This pre-conference workshop will address these issues and others that lie
> at the intersection of sociology of work and the sociology of communication
> and information technology.
> 
> PRE-CONFERENCE CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
> Submissions can be in the form of an abstract of 500 words OR a full paper
> of no more than 7,000 words. Any full paper accepted for presentation can be
> considered for inclusion in the annual CITASA special issue of the journal
> Information, Communication and Society (iCS).
> 
> Any research that lies at the intersection of sociology of work and ICT is
> welcome. Sociologist working outside of sociology departments and those with
> formal training in other disciplines who take a sociological approach are
> strongly encouraged to apply. Submissions are encouraged in the following
> specific areas:
> - ICTs in the office
> - ICTs and globalization of work
> - Telework and distributed teams
> - New "worlds" of work
> - Online communities and work
> - Software development and the sociology of work
> - Open source and user-created content and sociology of work
> - ICTs and research methods in the study of work
> 
> GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Submissions are encouraged
> from all areas related to the sociology of communication and information
> technologies (not exclusively the study of work). Submissions should be in
> the form of an abstract of 500 words OR a full paper of no more than 7,000
> words. Any full paper accepted for presentation can be considered for
> inclusion in the annual CITASA special issue of the journal Information,
> Communication and Society (iCS).
> 
> Selected students will give a 15-20 minute presentation of their research to
> a mentor panel of well-known senior researchers. Each presentation will be
> followed by questions and discussion prompted by the panel and general
> audience.
> 
> Students will be chosen by the organizing committee with the intent of
> inviting students from diverse backgrounds, with diverse methods, working on
> a broad range of topic areas (not exclusively the study of work). Students
> actively preparing a dissertation proposal or working on thesis that has
> already been approved by your university are strongly urged to apply
> (students do not need to be in sociology departments to apply). A maximum of
> 20 students will be invited to participate and will receive a "Microsoft
> CITASA Port 25 Emerging Scholars Award" in the amount of $200 to help defray
> travel and accommodation.
> 
> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 1, 2008
> Full papers submitted to the CITASA pre-conference and workshop can
> simultaneously be submitted to sessions of the regular ASA conference.
> Papers accepted for the CITASA pre-conference and workshop do not count
> against ASA limits on the number of papers an author can present at the
> regular meeting.
> 
> SEND SUBMISSION TO: CITASA2008 at CITASA.ORG Authors will be notified by April
> 2.
> 
> MENTOR PANEL (more to come)
> Paul DiMaggio, Princeton University
> Barry Wellman, University of Toronto
> 
> LOCATION
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> Sidney-Pacific Graduate Community Building 70 Pacific Street Cambridge, MA
> 02139 http://s-p.mit.edu/about_sp/directions.php
> 
> ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
> Katie Bessiere, Carnegie Mellon University 
> Sarah Gatson, Texas A&M University 
> Keith N. Hampton, University of Pennsylvania 
> Steve Sawyer, The Pennsylvania State University 
> Yuri Takhteyev, University of California Berkeley 
> Jim Witte, Clemson University
> 
> The ASA Communication and Information Technologies Pre-Conference and
> Graduate Student Workshop is made possible thanks to the generous support of
> the Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft.
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