Annual CITAMS Special Issue with iCS

Information, Communication & Society

CITAMS thanks iCS for partnering with us for our annual special issues showcasing some of the best work from our section, especially iCS Editor: Brian D. Loader and the iCS Editorial Board. Every fall CITAMS issues a call for papers presented at the previous ASA for consideration in a special issue of the journal Information, Communication & Society (ICS). Eligible papers are those presented at either the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association or CITAMS’ sponsored Media Sociology Symposium of that year. Please see Barry Wellman’s “CITASA and ICS: How the Relationship Began” for a history of the iCS-CITASA special issue.

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2026 CITAMS Special Issue with iCS

Information, Communication & Society

Did you have a paper accepted at the American Sociological Association annual meetings or at the Media Sociology Symposium in 2024 or 2025?

If so, you are invited to submit your paper for consideration in a special issue of the journal Information, Communication & Society (ICS). For the 19th year, ICS will publish a special issue featuring papers accepted at these meetings.

Only papers accepted at the 2024 or 2025 ASA annual meetings or Media Sociology Symposia are eligible for this special issue. Other papers may be submitted to the regular issues of ICS.

The special issue welcomes papers that focus on any facet of media, technology, communication, information, or related topics.

ICS is a highly ranked, interdisciplinary journal that brings together current research on the social, economic, and cultural impacts of new information and communications technologies. The journal positions itself at the center of contemporary debates about the information age. Submissions must conform to the ICS guidelines, are limited to 7000 words (8000 to include endnotes, tables, references etc.), and must be submitted via Manuscript Central (click on the green button). If you do not have an account, you will need to create one. Be sure to check the box for Special Issue and indicate “CITAMS 2026” in it, so that it will be routed appropriately.

Editors: Dhiraj Murthy and Neal Caren

Complete papers are due (submit via Manuscript Central) on November 1, 2025 before midnight AoE. Special issue publication is anticipated around May 2026.

If you have questions, please contact Dhiraj Murthy (dhiraj.murthy@austin.utexas.edu)

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iCS Special Issue 2024 

Editors: Dustin Kidd, Timothy Recuber, Tyler Burgese, Andrew Chelius, Jaggar DeMarco, Dana Gallant, Benjamin Guidry, Glen Hartenbaum, Caitlin Joyce, Ye Ju Ki, Kyle McDonald, Lyndsay Metzker, Julia Scheffler, Victoria Vazquez, Jordan Walsh, and FengYi Yin.

Introduction: Making sense of digitally mediated disruptions: a mission for the sociology of media and communication technologies
Timothy Recuber & Celeste Campos-Castillo

Empowering pandemic pivots: the inclusive power of remote work and school
Laura Robinson & Bianca C. Reisdorf

This is how we .win! Capital-building and media manipulation practices on The_Donald
Stephen R. Barnard

Becoming spectacle and performing back: a Black disabled woman’s performance practices on TikTok
Bettine Josties

Finding the criminal within: the use and meaning of digital evidence at trial
Anya Degenshein
Does the type of privacy-protective behaviour matter? An analysis of online privacy protective action and motivation
Eva Orszaghova & Grant Blank

The failure-speed ethos: notes from a glocal startup scene
Jenny L. Davis

Migrating the state into corporate clouds
Dan M. Kotliar & Alex Gekker

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iCS Special Issue 2023

Beyond myopia in communications and the sociology of media by Dustin Kidd, Timothy Recuber, Matt Atwell, Tyler Burgese, Andrew Chelius, Jaggar DeMarco, Dana Gallant, Benjamin Guidry, Glen Hartenbaum, Caitlin Joyce, Ye Ju Ki, Kyle McDonald, Lindsay Metzker, Julia Scheffler, Victoria Vazquez, Jordan Walsh & FengYi Yin

Disciplinary brakes on the sociology of digital media: the incongruity of communication and the sociological imagination by Keith N. Hampton

Disney animated movies, their princesses, and everyone else by Alia R. Tyner-Mullings

Critical discourse analysis guided topic modeling: the case of Al-Jazeera Arabic by Toni Rouhana

Rage against the streaming studio system: worker resistance to Hollywood’s networked era by Aymar Jean Christian & Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin

Buy now, pay later: redefining indebted users as responsible consumers by Rachel Aalders

Ethical ambiguity and complexity: tech workers’ perceptions of big data ethics in China and the US by Di Di

Fair privacy: how college students perceive fair privacy protection in online datasets by Yu Tao & Wendy Hui Wang

Correcting overconfidence in online privacy: experimenting with an educational game by Kristyn Karl & Yu Tao

Smartphones in the university classroom: less problematic than we tend to think? by Luc Bonneville & Diane Riddell

Investigating how the interaction between individual and circumstantial determinants influence the emergence of digital poverty: a post-pandemic survey among families with children in England by Maria Laura Ruiu, Massimo Ragnedda, Felice Addeo & Gabriele Ruiu

Digital inequalities and public health during COVID-19: media dependency and vaccination by Grant Blank & Bianca Reisdorf

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iCS Special Issue 2022 

Information Technology & Media Sociology in a (Still) Pandemic World: CITAMS 2022 Special Issue, Guest Editors: Jenny L. Davis, Dustin Kidd, Muyang Li, Rachel Aalders, and Tyler Burgese

Introduction: Information technology & media sociology in a (still) pandemic world by Jenny L. Davis, Dustin Kidd, Muyang Li, Rachel Aalders & Tyler Burgese

Digital technologies, dysfunctional movement-party dynamics and the threat to democracy by Deana A. Rohlinger

Cloaked science: the Yan reports by Jennifer Nilsen, Joan Donovan & Rob Faris

Socially mediated political consumerism by Shelley Boulianne

Red, yellow, green or golden: the post-pandemic future of China’s health code apps by Wenhong Chen, Gejun Huang & An Hu

Expendable to essential? Changing perceptions of gig workers on Twitter in the onset of COVID-19 by Shubham Agrawal, Amy M. Schuster, Noah Britt, Jessica Liberman & Shelia R. Cotten

“Why should Facebook (not) ban trump?”: connecting divides in reasoning and morality in public deliberation by Zhifan Luo

You’ve got mail: how the Trump administration used legislative communication to frame his last year in office by Francesca Tripodi & Yuanye Ma

Framing dynamics and claimsmaking after the Parkland shooting by Deana A. Rohlinger, Warren Allen & Caitria DeLucchi

Sounds like meritocracy to my ears: exploring the link between inequality in popular music and personal culture by Luca Carbone & Jonathan Mijs

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iCS Special Issue 2021

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iCS Special Issue 2020 

The sociological imagination in studies of communication, information technologies, and media: CITAMS as an invisible college by Anabel Quan-Haase, Shelley Boulianne and Molly-Gloria Harper

Mobilizing media: comparing TV and social media effects on protest mobilization by Shelley Boulianne, Karolina Koc-Michalska and Bruce Bimber

Perceptions about the impact of automation in the workplace by Matias Dodel and Gustavo S. Mesch

The winners and the losers of the platform economy: who participates? byLyn Hoang, Grant Blank and Anabel Quan-Haase

The differential impact of network connectedness and size on researchers’ productivity and influence by Tsahi Hayat, Dimitrina Dimitrova and Barry Wellman

Attributions of ethical responsibility by Artificial Intelligence practitioners by Will Orr and Jenny L. Davis

United States older adults’ willingness to use emerging technologies by Travis Kadylak and Shelia R. Cotten

Externalized domestication: smart speaker assistants, networks and domestication theory by Saba Rebecca Brause and Grant Blank

Black box measures? How to study people’s algorithm skills by Eszter Hargittai, Jonathan Gruber, Teodora Djukaric, Jaelle Fuchs and Lisa Brombach

The ‘bad women drivers’ myth: the overrepresentation of female drivers and gender bias in China’s media by Muyang Li and Zhifan Luo

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iCS Special Issue 2019

Dynamic Perspectives on Media and Information Technologies by Deana A. Rohlinger, Jenny L. Davis, Pierce Dignam & Cynthia Williams

On multiple agencies: when do things matter? by Maria Erofeeva

Interactionism in the age of ubiquitous telecommunication by Nils Oliver Klowait

Supplementing a survey with respondent Twitter data to measure e-cigarette information exposure by Joe Murphy, Y. Patrick Hsieh, Michael Wenger, Annice E. Kim & Rob Chew

Generalizing from social media data: a formal theory approach by Jenny L. Davis & Tony P. Love

When are artificial intelligence versus human agents faulted for wrongdoing? Moral attributions after individual and joint decisions by Daniel B. Shank, Alyssa DeSanti & Timothy Maninger

Contested affordances: teachers and students negotiating the classroom integration of mobile technology by Brooke Dinsmore

Gender inequality in mobile technology access: the role of economic and social development by Aarushi Bhandari

Charm offensive: mediatized country image transformations in international relations by Julia Sonnevend

‘It’s so scary how common this is now:’ frames in media coverage of the opioid epidemic by Ohio newspapers and themes in Facebook user reactions by David Russell, Naomi J. Spence & Kelly M. Thames

Race and the beauty premium: Mechanical Turk workers’ evaluations of Twitter accounts by Anne Groggel, Shirin Nilizadeh, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Apu Kapadia & Fabio Rojas

Digital remediation: social support and online learning communities can help offset rural digital inequality by Howard T. Welser, M. Laeeq Khan & Michael Dickard

Symposium on Political Communication and Social Movements

Symposium on political communication and social movements: ships passing in the night by Deana A. Rohlinger

Audiences in social context: bridging the divides between political communications and social movements scholarship by Sarah Sobieraj

Symposium on political communication and social movements – the campfire and the tent: what social movement studies and political communication can learn from one another by David Karpf

Symposium on political communication and social movements: audience, persuasion, and influence by Jennifer Earl

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iCS Special Issue 2018

CITAMS as a transfield: introduction to the special issue by Jenny L. Davis, Jason A. Smith & Barry Wellman

Abandoned not: media sociology as a networked transfield by Wenhong Chen

The identity curation game: digital inequality, identity work, and emotion management by Laura Robinson

Are older adults networked individuals? Insights from East Yorkers’ network structure, relational autonomy, and digital media use by Hua Wang, Renwen Zhang,  & Barry Wellman

Does compassion go viral? Social media, caring, and the Fort McMurray wildfire by Shelley Boulianne, Joanne Minaker & Timothy J. Haney

Inequality in digital skills and the adoption of online safety behaviors by Matias Dodel & Gustavo Mesch

The echo chamber is overstated: the moderating effect of political interest and diverse media by Elizabeth Dubois & Grant Blank

Professionalization through attrition? An event history analysis of mortalities in citizen journalism by Ryan P. Larson & Andrew M. Lindner

Armchair detectives and the social construction of falsehoods: an actor–network approach by Penn Pantumsinchai

Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Navigating Creepy versus Cool in Wearable Biotech by Elizabeth Wissinger

Beyond privacy: bodily integrity as an alternative framework for understanding non-consensual pornography by PJ Patella-Rey

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iCS Special Issue 2017

Digital media technologies in everyday life by Jessie Daniels, Apryl Williams & Shantel Buggs

Pierre Bourdieu: theorizing the digital by Gabe Ignatow & Laura Robinson

Connected seniors: how older adults in East York exchange social support online and offline by Anabel Quan-Haase, Guang Ying Mo & Barry Wellman

I got all my sisters with me (on Black Twitter): second screening of How to Get Away with Murder as a discourse on Black Womanhood by Apryl Williams & Vanessa Gonlin

A transnational networked public sphere of air pollution: analysis of a Twitter network of PM2.5 from the risk society perspective by Wenhong Chen, Fangjing Tu & Pei Zheng

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iCS Special Issue 2016 

Fluctuations, technologies and media: social change and sociology change by Nick LaLone & Andrea Tapia

Social networking sites and low-income teenagers: between opportunity and inequality by Marina Micheli

Contextual social capital: linking the contexts of social media use to its outcomes by Kelly Quinn

‘Can you hear me now?’ Phreaking the party line from operators to occupy by Joan Donovan

Invaluable values: an expectancy-value theory analysis of youths’ academic motivations and intentions by Christopher Ball, Kuo-Ting Huang, Shelia R. Cotten, R.V. Rikard & LaToya O. Coleman

In game we trust? Coplay and generalized trust in and beyond a Chinese MMOG world by Wenhong Chen, Cuihua Shen & Gejun Huang

Agenda setting and active audiences in online coverage of human trafficking by Maria Eirini Papadouka, Nicholas Evangelopoulos & Gabe Ignatow

Examining cross-disciplinary communication’s impact on multidisciplinary collaborations: implications for innovations by Guang Ying Mo

Interviews with digital seniors: ICT use in the context of everyday life by Anabel Quan-Haase, Kim Martin & Kathleen Schreurs

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iCS Special Issue 2015

“Where we’ve been and where we are going” by Laura Robinson and Apryl Williams

“CITASA: intellectual past and future” by Jennifer Earl

“Romantic breakups on Facebook: new scales for studying post-breakup behaviors, digital distress, and surveillance”  by Veronika Lukacs & Anabel Quan-Haase

“Strategies of control: workers’ use of ICTs to shape knowledge and service work” by Julia Ticona

“Social media use and participation: a meta-analysis of current research” by Shelley Boulianne

“Connecting people to politics over time? Internet communication technology and retention in MoveOn.org and the Florida Tea Party Movement” by Deana A. Rohlinger & Leslie A. Bunnage

“Professional journalists in ‘citizen’ journalism” by Andrew M. Lindner, Emma Connell & Erin Meyer

“Digital inequalities and why they matter” by Laura Robinson, Shelia R. Cotten, Hiroshi Ono, Anabel Quan-Haase, Gustavo Mesch, Wenhong Chen, Jeremy Schulz, Timothy M. Hale & Michael J. Stern

“Bigger sociological imaginations: framing big social data theory and methods” by Alexander Halavais

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iCS Special Issue 2014

“Hitting middle age never felt so good: introduction to the American Sociological Association Communication and Information Technologies section 2013 special issue” by Jennifer Earl & Katrina Kimport

“Testing the validity of social capital measures in the study of information and communication technologies” by Lora Appel, Punit Dadlani, Maria Dwyer, Keith Hampton, Vanessa Kitzie, Ziad A Matni, Patricia Moore & Rannie Teodoro

“Dimensions of Internet use: amount, variety, and types” by Grant Blank & Darja Groselj

“Twitter publics: how online political communities signaled electoral outcomes in the 2010 US house election” by Karissa McKelvey, Joseph DiGrazia & Fabio Rojas

“No praise without effort: experimental evidence on how rewards affect Wikipedia’s contributor community” by Michael Restivo & Arnout van de Rijt

“Need to know vs. need to share: information technology and the intersecting work of police, fire and paramedics” by Carrie B. Sanders

“Context collapse: theorizing context collusions and collisions” by Jenny L. Davis & Nathan Jurgenson

“Are we all equally at home socializing online? Cyberasociality and evidence for an unequal distribution of disdain for digitally-mediated sociality” by Zeynep Tufekci & Matthew E. Brashears

“Revisiting the digital divide in Canada: the impact of demographic factors on access to the internet, level of online activity, and social networking site usage” by Michael Haight, Anabel Quan-Haase & Bradley A Corbett

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iCS Special Issue 2013

“REAL(-IZING) UTOPIAS AND DISMANTLING DYSTOPIAS: Introduction to the ASA Communication and Information Technologies Section 2013 special issue” by Michael J. Stern & Shelia R. Cotten

“THIS PROTEST WILL BE TWEETED: Twitter and protest policing during the Pittsburgh G20” by Jennifer Earl, Heather McKee Hurwitz, Analicia Mejia Mesinas, Margaret Tolan & Ashley Arlotti

“PRIVACY PROTECTION STRATEGIES ON FACEBOOK: The Internet privacy paradox revisited” by Alyson Leigh Young & Anabel Quan-Haase

“IS THERE SUCH A THING AS AN ONLINE HEALTH LIFESTYLE?: Examining the relationship between social status, Internet access, and health behaviors” by Timothy M. Hale

“WHEN YOU JUST CANNOT GET AWAY: Exploring the use of information and communication technologies in facilitating negative work/home spillover” by Ronald W. Berkowsky

“NET TIME NEGOTIATIONS WITHIN THE FAMILY” by Laura Robinson & Jeremy Schulz

“EXPLAINING COMMUNICATION DISPLACEMENT AND LARGE-SCALE SOCIAL CHANGE IN CORE NETWORKS: A cross-national comparison of why bigger is not better and less can mean more” by Keith N. Hampton & Richard Ling

“WHO CREATES CONTENT?: Stratification and content creation on the Internet” by Grant Blank

“NEW DOMAINS FOR STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS: Reformulating standard data analysis as structural analysis” by Joel H. Levine

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iCS Special Issue 2012 

THE SOCIAL MATRIX OF THE EMERGENT WEB: GOVERNANCE, EXCHANGE, PARTICIPATION, & ENGAGEMENT Introduction to the ASA Communication and Information Technologies Section 2012 special issue by Gina Neff & Laura Robinson

INTERACTIONS OF THE TECHNICAL AND THE SOCIAL Digital formations of the powerful and the powerless by Saskia Sassen

CARING CAPITAL WEBSITES by Ronald E. Anderson

HACKING THE GLOBAL Constructing markets and commons through free software by Sara Schoonmaker

THE EXCHANGE OF MATERIAL CULTURE AMONG ROCK FANS IN ONLINE COMMUNITIES by Andrea Baker

THE PARTICIPATORY WEB A user perspective on Web 2.0 by Grant Blank & Bianca C. Reisdorf

THE TREND OF CLASS, RACE, AND ETHNICITY IN SOCIAL MEDIA INEQUALITY Who still cannot afford to blog? By Jen Schradie

COMMUNICATING INJUSTICE? Framing and online protest against Chinese government land expropriation by Qiongyou Pu & Stephen J. Scanlan

PRIVATE PROTEST? Public and private engagement online by Jennifer Earl

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iCS Special Issue 2011 

ICT: From Social Adoption to Social Effects Communication and Information Technologies Section (ASA) Special Issue by Gustavo S. Mesch & Nalini P. Kotamraju

USING AFFORDABLE TECHNOLOGY TO DECREASE DIGITAL INEQUALITY Results from Birmingham’s One Laptop Per Child XO laptop project by Shelia R. Cotten, Timothy M. Hale, Michael Howell Moroney, LaToya O’Neal & Casey Borch

ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN INTERNET ACCESS The role of occupation and exposure by Gustavo S. Mesch & Ilan Talmud

INFORMATION-CHANNEL PREFERENCES AND INFORMATION-OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURES by Laura Robinson

IT USE AND LEISURE TIME DISPLACEMENT Convergent evidence over the last 15 years by John P. Robinson

COMPARING BONDING AND BRIDGING TIES FOR DEMOCRATIC ENGAGEMENT Everyday use of communication technologies within social networks for civic and civil behaviors by Keith N. Hampton

SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS UPDATES Family SES and emergent social capital in college student Facebook networks by Brandon Brooks, Howard T. Welser, Bernie Hogan & Scott Titsworth

RECONCEPTUALIZING THE PUBLIC/PRIVATE DISTINCTION IN THE AGE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY by Sarah Michele Ford

THE LATINO CYBER-MORAL PANIC PROCESS IN THE UNITED STATES by Nadia Yamel Flores-Yeffal, Guadalupe Vidales & April Plemons

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iCS Special Issue 2010 

An introduction to the special CITASA section on contentious politics on and offline by Barry Wellman

NEW INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AND GRASSROOTS MOBILIZATION by Victoria Carty

MANUFACTURING COMMUNITY IN AN ONLINE ACTIVIST ORGANIZATION The rhetoric of MoveOn.org’s e-mails by Marc Eaton

MOBILIZING FRIENDS AND STRANGERS Understanding the role of the Internet in the Step It Up day of action by Dana R. Fisher & Marije Boekkooi

THE DYNAMICS OF PROTEST-RELATED DIFFUSION ON THE WEB by Jennifer Earl

THE USE OF THE WELSH LANGUAGE ON FACEBOOK An initial investigation by Courtenay Honeycutt & Daniel Cunliffe

THEORIZING WEB 2.0 A cultural perspective by Felicia Wu Song

Book Review NetWorking/Networking: Citizen Initiated Internet Politics by Peter John Chen

Book Review Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet by Lauren Cruikshank

Book Review Communication Power by Christian Fuchs

Book Review The Second Life Herald: The Virtual Tabloid that Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse by Laura Ripamonti

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iCS Special Issue 2009 

Diversity: Introduction to the second annual special issue of the communication and information technologies section of the American Sociological Association by Barry Wellman & Christena Nippert-Eng

LOCAL MUSICIANS BUILDING GLOBAL AUDIENCES Social capital and the distribution of user-created content on- and off-line by Carey Sargent

A TASTE FOR THE NECESSARY A Bourdieuian approach to digital inequality by Laura Robinson

SOCIAL ATTITUDE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN INTERNET USERS AND NON-USERS Evidence from the General Social Survey by John P. Robinson & Steven P. Martin

NET AND JET The Internet use, travel and social networks of Chinese Canadian entrepreneurs by Wenhong Chen & Barry Wellman

SOFTWARE POLITICS IN BRAZIL Toward a political economy of digital inclusion by Sara Schoonmaker

NETWORKS OF PRACTICE AS HETEROGENEOUS ACTOR-NETWORKS The case of software development in Brazil by Yuri Takhteyev

WIRELESS DEVICES FOR HUMANITARIAN DATA COLLECTION The socio-technical implications for multi-level organizational change by Andrea Tapia & Carleen Maitland

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iCS Special Issue 2008

Sociology and ICTs by Keith N. Hampton & Barry Wellman

THE TARGETS OF ONLINE PROTEST State and private targets of four online protest tactics by Jennifer Earl & Katrina Kimport

CHANGING PATTERNS OF NEWS CONSUMPTION AND PARTICIPATION News recommendation engines by Emily Thorson

PERSONAL NETWORKS AND THE PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Using multiple media to connect by Jeffrey Boase

THE ASSOCIATION AMONG GENDER, COMPUTER USE AND ONLINE HEALTH SEARCHING, AND MENTAL HEALTH by Patricia Drentea, Melinda Goldner, Shelia Cotten & Timothy Hale

‘I’M THERE, BUT I MIGHT NOT WANT TO TALK TO YOU’ by Anabel Quan-Haase & Jessica L. Collins

GROOMING, GOSSIP, FACEBOOK AND MYSPACE What can we learn about these sites from those who won’t assimilate? By Zeynep Tufekci

COPRESENCE AS ‘BEING WITH’ Social contact in online public domains by Shanyang Zhao & David Elesh

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