As part of what is becoming an annual ritual, I have put together a spreadsheet of papers that relate to communication, information technologies, and media more generally, that will be presented at the ASA meeting (Boston, Aug 1-4). Both lists exclude papers presented at the CITASA pre-conference. This year\’s list contains over 165 papers, a significant increase over the 106 papers that I identified last year. Perhaps optimistically, I would like to think that the 50%+ increase in papers represents the revival of communication studies within sociology.
This special edition of Information, Communication & Society (iCS) that I co-edited with Barry Wellman has just been released. The issue consists of papers presented at the 2007 ASA meeting in New York.
Information, Communication & Society, Volume 11 Issue 4 (2008)
Sociology of ICTs
EDITORIAL COMMENT
Sociology and ICTs
Authors: Keith N. Hampton; Barry Wellman
THE TARGETS OF ONLINE PROTEST
State and private targets of four online protest tactics
Authors: Jennifer Earl; Katrina Kimport
CHANGING PATTERNS OF NEWS CONSUMPTION AND PARTICIPATION
News recommendation engines
Author: Emily Thorson
PERSONAL NETWORKS AND THE PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
Using multiple media to connect
Author: Jeffrey Boase
THE ASSOCIATION AMONG GENDER, COMPUTER USE AND ONLINE HEALTH SEARCHING, AND MENTAL HEALTH
Authors: Patricia Drentea; Melinda Goldner; Shelia Cotten; Timothy Hale
\’I\’M THERE, BUT I MIGHT NOT WANT TO TALK TO YOU\’
Authors: Anabel Quan-Haase; Jessica L. Collins
GROOMING, GOSSIP, FACEBOOK AND MYSPACE
What can we learn about these sites from those who won\’t assimilate?
Author: Zeynep Tufekci
COPRESENCE AS \’BEING WITH\’
Social contact in online public domains
Authors: Shanyang Zhao; David Elesh
I recently found this spoof of an E-harmony.com commercial. I\’m sure any relation to either my e-Neighbors project, or the i-neighbors.org website is a coincidence.