CITAMS at the 118th ASA Annual Meeting 

August 17-21, 2023, Philadelphia, PA

CITAMS Open Panel

This session is open to paper submissions for any work related to the themes of the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology (CITAMS) section. This is an opportunity to highlight cutting edge work in the field, or to revisit classic themes.

Thanks to a special relationship between the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology (CITAMS) section and the journal Information, Communication & Society (ICS), all papers with a theme of information, communication, or media that are presented at the 2023 meetings of the ASA are eligible for submission to a special issue of ICS edited by the CITAMS chair each fall. CITAMS is committed to full accessibility of participation for all members and will work with contributors to ensure this.

Organizers: Open Panel: Dustin Kidd, Temple University; dkidd@temple.edu and Timothy Recuber, Smith College; trecuber@smith.edu

CITAMS Open-Refereed Roundtables

This session is open to paper submissions for any work related to the themes of the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology (CITAMS) section. This is an opportunity to highlight cutting edge work in the field, or to revisit classic themes. Papers will be grouped into themes once submissions are received.

Thanks to a special relationship between the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology (CITAMS) section and the journal Information, Communications & Society (ICS), all papers with a theme of information, communication, or media that are presented at the 2023 meetings of the ASA are eligible for submission to a special issue of ICS edited by the CITAMS chair each fall. CITAMS is committed to full accessibility of participation for all members and will work with contributors to ensure this.

Organizers: Open-Refereed Roundtables: Dustin Kidd, Temple University; dkidd@temple.edu, Timothy Recuber, Smith College; trecuber@smith.edu, and Jenny Davis, The Australian National University; jennifer.davis@anu.edu.au

Miscommunication, Disinformation Technologies, and Bad Media

Lies and manipulation are frequent topics of public discourse, regarding a range of topics from politics and public policies to jobs and consumerism. The tools of these lies are often the very technologies that are central to the CITAMS section. This is an opportunity to explore the dark corners of information technology, communication, and the media.

Thanks to a special relationship between the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology (CITAMS) section and the journal Information, Communication & Society (ICS), all papers with a theme of information, communication, or media that are presented at the 2023 meetings of the ASA are eligible for submission to a special issue of ICS edited by the CITAMS chair each fall. CITAMS is committed to full accessibility of participation for all members and will work with contributors to ensure this.

Organizers: Miscommunication, Disinformation Technologies, and Bad Media: Dustin Kidd, Temple University; dkidd@temple.edu and Gina Longo, Virginia Commonwealth University; longog2@vcu.edu

Technologies of Disability Representation

Communication technologies are the primary method of representation in the narratives and images of modern life. These technologies include mass media, social media, smart phones, and much more. This session is focused on disability media studies through an intersectional lens. It highlights the important role of both media studies and disability studies in the study of communications and information technology. Papers for this open panel might include quantitative studies of unequal representations, qualitative studies of key themes in representation, case studies of particular models of representation, and theoretical analyses that help to explain or contextualize representations of disability and its intersections with one or more of the following: race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, nationality, region, class, etc. Papers might focus on television, film, social media platforms, smart phone applications, novels and other text-based communication, YouTube, search engines, and assistive or adaptive technologies. This session is co-sponsored by the Disability in Society section of ASA.

Thanks to a special relationship between the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology (CITAMS) section and the journal Information, Communication & Society (ICS), all papers with a theme of information, communication, or media that are presented at the 2023 meetings of the ASA are eligible for submission to a special issue of ICS edited by the CITAMS chair each fall. CITAMS is committed to full accessibility of participation for all members and will work with contributors to ensure this.

Organizer: Technologies of Disability Representation: Dustin Kidd, Temple University; dkidd@temple.edu

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