[CITASA] ICS special issue available

[Christena Nippert-Eng]

Greetings, CITASA friends --

I am delighted to announce that the 2008 CITASA ASA special issue 
of "Information, Communication and Society" (iCS) is now available on 
line!

On behalf of all the guest editors, editorial assistants, authors, and 
the generous and hardworking staff at iCS and Routledge, I invite you 
have a look at a lovely smmorgasboard of the very diverse kinds of 
work we do in this section.  :)

More information about Volume 12 Issue 4, 2009 -- otherwise known 
as "Diversity: the second annual special issue of the communication 
and information technologies section of the American Sociological 
Association" -- is posted here:

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g912564489~tab=to
c~order=page

Don't forget, as a special bonus, four more papers from last year's 
conference will be featured as a special section of another issue 
later this year.  We'll let you know when to look for that one, 
too.  :)

This is so important for our section -- finally, a place we can 
highlight some of the great work presented each year -- and get some 
hard-won publications out of it, to boot.  For those who submit their 
conference papers and get selected, it's a great two-fer.  :)

Take a look.  Then, if you think the issue looks good, you feel left 
out, and/or you're thinking of submiting your own 2009 ASA conference 
paper for next year's special issue, you'll find the Call for Papers 
here:

http://citasa.org/announcements/cfp_journal/959

Note that the 2010 special issue will be co-edited by Gustavo Mesch 
and Shanyang Zhao.  Thank you Gustavo and Shanyang!


How to access the special issue:

First, two articles, Chen/Wellman and L. Robinson, will be available 
for free to anyone from the ICS website for the next three months.  
The staff at iCS are setting that up right now.

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rics

Second, thanks to the generousity of iCS and Routledge, all CITASA 
members who have paid their 2009 membership dues will soon receive an 
email coupon that will give them 3 free months of access to all 
articles in the special issue.

Third, Section members are eligible for a discount on an iCS 
subscription.  

http://www.citasa.org/files/icsoffer.pdf

This will soon be posted to the section website, too, 

http://citasa.org/

Cheers, everyone, from your special issue co-editor and rising Chair-
Elect! :)
Chris Nippert-Eng

Christena Nippert-Eng, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology
Associate Chair, Department of Social Sciences
Illinois Institute of Technology
312-567-6812 (office)
312-567-6821 (fax)
http://www.iit.edu/csl/ss/faculty/nippert_christena.shtml