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Section Annual Report for the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section

This annual report covers the period of section activity from September 2017 to August 2018 and a fiscal year from January 2018 to December 2018. The report is typically completed by the immediate past chair of each section as it covers the period this person served as chair. However, it is often completed in consultation with other officers and it may be submitted by anyone on the section council. Sections that do not file an Annual Report will have their budget allocation withheld until a complete report is received. Please submit the report by November 15. Section Governance Provide details of your section’s governance activity during the period between September 2017 and August 2018.

Business Meeting Copy and paste below (or attach separately) the agenda and approved meeting minutes from the section business meeting which include a count of members present and summary of decisions made at this meeting.

CITAMS Business Meeting 2018 American Sociological Association, Philadelphia

Sun, August 12, 11:30am to 12:10pm Pennsylvania Convention Center, Level 100, 103B

AGENDA Thanks to Section Outgoing Officers & Welcome New officers

Welcome New Officers Chair-Elect: Anabel Quan-Haase (1-year term begins in 2018), Western University Council Member: Apryl Williams (2-year term begins in 2018), Susquehanna University Council Member: Timothy Recuber (2-year term begins in 2018), Hamilton College Member, Nominations Committee (3-year term begins in 2018): Jeffrey Lane, Rutgers University Student Representative: (1-year term begins 2018): (to be appointed by council)

Thank You to Outgoing Officers Council Member: Grant Blank, Oxford University Council Member: Paul Lopes, Colgate University Chair, Nominations Committee: Jeffrey Boase, University of Toronto

Student Representative: Leslie Jones Past Chair: Jessie Daniels, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY Continuing Officers Chair: Deana A. Rohlinger, Florida State University (1-year term begins in 2018) Past Chair: Wenhong Chen, University of Texas-Austin (1-year term begins in 2018) Council Member: Bryce Hannibal, Texas A&M University (2-year term begins 2017) Council Member: Sarah Sobieraj, Tufts University (2-year term begins 2017) Secretary-Treasurer: Mito Akiyoshi, Senshu University (2-year term begins 2017)

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Chair, Nominations Committee: Jenny Davis (3-year term begins 2016), Australian National University

2018-2019 Position Member Term Start Term End

Chair Deana Rohlinger 9/1/2018 8/31/2019

Chair-Elect Anabel Quan-Haase 9/1/2018 8/31/2019

Past Chair Wenhong Chen 9/1/2018 8/31/2019

Secretary/Treasurer Mito Akiyoshi 9/1/2017 8/31/2019

Nominations Committee Jenny L. Davis 9/1/2016 8/31/2019

Anabel Quan-Haase 9/1/2017 8/31/2020

Jeffrey Lane 9/1/2018 8/31/2021

Council Bryce Hannibal 9/1/2017 8/31/2019

Sarah Sobieraj 9/1/2017 8/31/2019

Apryl Williams 9/1/2018 8/31/2020

Timothy Recuber 9/1/2018 8/31/2020

Recognition of Service to the Section 2017-2018 CITAMS subcommittees

Communications/Socio-technical outreach Committee: Anabel Quan-Haase (Twitter), Jessie Daniels/ Laura Robinson (website), Wenhong Chen (Facebook/Listserve) Media Sociology / Pre-conference Subcommittee: Laura Robinson, Bryce Hannibal, Paul Lopes Membership Committee: Sarah Sobieraj, Deana Rohlinger, Bryce Hannibal, Paul Lopes Newsletter Committee: Barry Wellman and Ian Sheinheit Reception/ CITAMS 30th anniversary committee: Keith Hampton, Wenhong Chen Roundtable Organizer: Sarah Sobieraj Sponsorship Committee: Laura Robinson and Wenhong Chen

Nominations Committee: Jeffrey Boase (Chair, j.boase@utoronto.ca), Jenny Davis (jennifer.davis@anu.edu.au), Anabel Quan-Haase (aquan@uwo.ca) Nomination and election, in spite of a technical error on the ballot. Working with ASA, Jeff Boase as nominating committee chair, and the section chair arranged a special election for the two positions of council member in June 2018. Awards Committees: 2018 CITAMS Award Results William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award Winner: W. Russell Neuman, Professor of Media Technology, NYU & Professor (Emeritus), Communication Studies, University of Michigan

2017-2018 Committee: Jessie Daniels (Chair), Gary T. Marx, Jennifer Earl, Eszter Hargittai Best Article Award

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Winner: Christopher A. Bail, Taylor W. Brown, and Marcus Mann. 2017. "Channeling Hearts and Minds: Advocacy Organizations, Cognitive-Emotional Currents, and Public Conversation." American Sociological Review 82(6):1188-1213.

2017-2018 Committee: Mito Akiyoshi(Chair), Arnout van de Rijt, Sarah Sobieraj Best Student Paper Award Co-winner: Scott W. Duxbury, Laura C. Frizzell, Sadé L. Lindsay, Ohio State University, Mental Illness, the Media, and the Moral Politics of Mass Violence: The Role of Race in Mass Shootings Coverage Co-winner: Ethel L. Mickey, Northeastern University, Doing Gender, Doing Networks: Exploring Individual Networking Strategies in High-Tech

2017-2018 Committee: Wenhong Chen (Chair), Arvind Karunakaran, Bryce Hannibal Best Book Award Winner: Christo Sims, University of California, San Diego, Disruptive Fixation: School Reform and the Pitfalls of Techno-Idealism (Princeton, 2018)

2017-2018 Committee: Deana Rohlinger (Chair), Phaedra Daipha, Mohammed Zayani, Grant Blank Public Sociology Award Winner: Professor Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, The New School for Social Research 2017-2018 Committee will be: Jeffrey Boase(Chair), Michael Stern, Leslie Jones

FUTURE STAFFING

Deana Rohlinger (incoming Chair) must appoint the following: Media Sociology Subcommittee: Roundtable Organizer: Membership Committee: Sponsorship Committee: Communications Committee: Reception/party planner for ASA 2019: Pre-conference planning for ASA 2019: Socio-technical outreach committee:

Communications Committee: Newsletter Committee: Student Representative These committees must be staffed according to CITAMS Bylaws (https://citams.org/section-bylaws/), which are as follows: Nominations Committee Career Achievement Award Paper ward Student Paper Award Book Award Public Sociology Time to follow to make sure awardee names appear in Annual Meeting Program Call for nomination: Jan/Feb Deadline for submission: March 15 Deadline for committee results: May 15 (or the latest May 31)

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Report

Financial Report: Mito Akiyoshi ($5,055 as of June 30 2018) Membership Report: Sarah Sobieraj, Deana Rohlinger, Bryce Hannibal, Paul Lopes (335 as of June 30 2018) Sponsorships and Collaborations Laura Robinson and Wenhong Chen ($1500+) Communications Report: Anabel Quan-Haase (Twitter), Jessie Daniels/ Laura Robinson (website), Wenhong Chen (Facebook/Listserve) Twitter account has 269 followers. Facebook page has 266 followers.

Media Sociology Pre-Conference Report: Casey Brienza Media Sociology / Pre-conference Subcommittee: Casey Brienza, Founder and Chair, Laura Robinson

• Laura Robinson: sponsorship has ranged from $200 to $450 per year since 2015 approx with arrangement that all CITAMS members receive free registration—cost of registration is more than section membership so idea is that it will help with membership numbers.

• The section will continue its support to the media sociology preconference. The specific dollar amount would be determined by the current chair in consultation with other section leaders.

• The current CITAMS chair or his or her appointee is entitled to nominate a keynote speaker at the preconference.

• The current CITAMS chair or his or her appointee is entitled to organize a CITAMS panel at the preconference.

Newsletter Committee: Barry Wellman and Ian Sheinheit

Even with our listserv, it's nice to aggregate a good deal of information into one handy newsletter space, making the sum greater than the parts. Ian Sheinheit and Barry Wellman were excited to build community in CITAMS by editing and publishing two long newsletters that bring together some--certainly not all--of our multifaceted activity. With the merger of Media with Communication and Information, this is especially important.

Roundtable Organizer: Sarah Sobieraj. 10 roundtables are organized. Reception/ CITAMS 30th anniversary committee: Keith Hampton led the search for the site of the section reception CITAMS@30.

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OPPORTUNITIES Announcements (5-6 min)

• Session publications CITMAS @30 (Laura Robinson/ Shelia Cotten et al., 3 min)

o 1) TWO forthcoming CITAMS@30 volumes with Emerald o 2) The one-time gift of $300 for the thirty year anniversary

• Current Calls: Emerald Series (Laura Robinson/ Shelia Cotten et al , 1 min) • Special Issue –ICS (Deana Rohlinger, 1 min)

• Oxford University Press：exploring the possibility of publishing an Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Communication, Information Technology, and Media (1 min).

PROBLEMS/ISSUES /FUTURE BUSINESS

1. Nomination Committee (Anabel Quan-Haase is elected as Chair-elect) Shall Anabel vacate her seat on the Nominations Committee, the bylaws state the following in terms of filling an empty seat: “In the event of a vacancy in an office, a Council membership, or a committee membership, the Chairperson shall make an interim appointment to serve until a replacement is elected in the next annual election” and “In the event of the death, resignation, absence or the inability to serve of any members elected or appointed to a committee, the Section Chair, in consultation with the Nominations Committee, may appoint a member of the Section to fill the vacancy during the Chair's term of office.”

Resolution: Deana A. Rohlinger as the new chair will be in charge of this issue.

2. Communication Issues Website and Listserve Laura Robinson on Website: I am happy to keep updating it (especially re the sponsorship from

Emerald and keeping that info up to date) and also happy to have others edit it as well. Whichever

way, we need to put a link with the contact person on the main site who will post material as needed--

OR see suggestion below for a posting page. Related to that, I have been paying the fees and getting

reimbursed by the section. Again, happy to continue or to let someone else do it. The next year's fees

will be due in early fall--I will keep paying them and asking for reimbursement until told otherwise.

Here are issues to address:

I would suggest going forward to: 1) try to link the listserv to the website OR have an open page where members can post their own announcements. We need to consider the possibility that someone could post objectionable material and consider some kind of caveat that we are not moderating the posts so that we are not responsible for the content OR decide the risk is not worth it. 2) As a number of different people have edited the pages and will no doubt do so in the future, the formatting is sometimes inconsistent. It would be helpful if everyone editing it used the same format. Resolution: Deana A. Rohlinger and Laura Robinson will coordinate.

3. William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award Clarity There was some confusion about the Career Award. The section has been giving out TWO categories for the Career Awward (mid-career and lifetime) since 2016, based on discussion at the council meeting in

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2015. The Council and the Business meeting approved of a shared Senior/Mid-Career Ogburn Award in 2015. Yet, the 2017-2018 Career Award Committee decided to select one lifetime award, arguing that “this is actually not ok within the current bylaws of the section”. One nominee for the award complained that this was not fair as the committee did not announce publicly that there would be no mid-career award this year. Several past chairs pointed out that other awards in CITAMS or other ASA sections often have co-winners, honorable mentions etc. In 2017, we subsequently received approval from the ASA's sections office. Solution: The section did not have formal discussion, vote or communication whether we should remove the mid-career award for 2017-2018 or forever. The language and recent history of the award gives nominees and their nominators reasons to believe that there is a mid-career award. Moving forward, greater clarity is needed. There are several options:

• TWO categories of the Career awards (mid-career and lifetime) in each year

• TWO categories of the Career awards (mid-career and lifetime) for alternative year (e.g. if 2017-2018 is lifetime, 2018-201p would be mid-career)

• Other options?

Resolution: Participants of business meeting support Council’s decision of having TWO categories of the Career awards (mid-career and lifetime) for alternative year (e.g. if 2017-2018 is lifetime, 2018-2019 would be mid-career)

4. Future finance and budget Deana Rohlinger

Dear Colleagues,

I would like CITAMS to consider adding potentially three bylaws related to fiscal management into our bylaws.

As you can see in the graph below, which reports the section’s finances from 1997 through 2017, the CITAMS budget can fluctuate fairly dramatically over time. In an effort to better manage the section finances from one year to the next, CITAMS should consider the following: 1) Requiring the section chair to create a budget, the council to improve it, and the Secretary-Treasurer to enforce it; 2) Requiring the section to craft a long-term budgeting plan; and 3) Requiring the Secretary-Treasurer to maintain the section’s records.

At least one other ASA section has moved to a 5-year budgeting model where current year expenditures are budgeted based on forecasts of future meeting costs, which vary substantially by city. At any given time, ASA makes the next several meeting locations available to members, allowing a section to determine the average cost of their receptions in that city and forecast a localized budget for their reception across the five year time frame. The table below shows an empty model worksheet the section could use for this kind of budgeting. As is clear from the table, it is actually possible to forecast a current year and seven additional years based on current ASA meeting locations. As the past Secretary-Treasurer, I created a Dropbox for the section and compiled information made available to me. This archive simply needs to be maintained.

Resolution: participants of business meeting support Council’s decision of adopting new budget practice starting from 2018-2019.

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Council Meeting Copy and paste below (or attach separately) the agenda and approved meeting minutes of all Council Meetings conducted between August 2017 and September 2018. Minutes must include a list of council members present and a summary of decisions made. Minutes are not a transcript of proceedings but a listing of what discussions took place and official actions taken.

CITAMS Council Meeting 2018 American Sociological Association, Philadelphia

Sunday, August 12 at 7:30am-8:15am Venue: 13 Restaurant, 1201 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19107, +1-215-625-2900

(Light Breakfast will be served, Sponsored by UT Austin)

2017-2018 CITAMS COUNCIL Wenhong Chen: Chair Deana A. Rohlinger: Chair-Elect Jessie Daniels: Past Chair Mito Akiyoshi: Secretary/Treasurer Grant Blank: Council Member Paul Lopes: Council Member Bryce Hannibal: Council Member Sarah Soberiaj: Council Member Jeffrey Boase: Nominating Committee (Chair) Jenny Davis: Nominating Committee Anabel Quan-Haase, Nominating Committee Student Representative: Leslie Jones

Participants (2017-2018 council members and new members elected in 2018 are invited) Expected to attend: Mito Akiyoshi, Grant Blank, Wenhong Chen, Jenny Davis, Jeffery Lane, Paul Lopes, Tim Recuber, Laura Robinson, Deana Rohlinger, Sarah Sobieraj, and Apryl Williams

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AGENDA Thanks to Section Outgoing Officers & Welcome New officers

Welcome New Officers

Chair-Elect: Anabel Quan-Haase (1-year term begins in 2018), Western University Council Member: Apryl Williams (2-year term begins in 2018), Susquehanna University Council Member: Timothy Recuber (2-year term begins in 2018), Hamilton College Member, Nominations Committee (3-year term begins in 2018): Jeffrey Lane, Rutgers University Student Representative: (1-year term begins 2018): (to be appointed by council)

Thank You to Outgoing Officers

Great thanks to our outgoing committee members Council Member: Grant Blank, Oxford University Council Member: Paul Lopes, Colgate University Chair, Nominations Committee: Jeffrey Boase, University of Toronto

Student Representative: Leslie Jones Past Chair: Jessie Daniels, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

Continuing Officers

Chair: Deana A. Rohlinger, Florida State University (1-year term begins in 2018) Past Chair: Wenhong Chen, University of Texas-Austin (1-year term begins in 2018) Council Member: Bryce Hannibal, Texas A&M University (2-year term begins 2017) Council Member: Sarah Sobieraj, Tufts University (2-year term begins 2017) Secretary-Treasurer: Mito Akiyoshi, Senshu University (2-year term begins 2017) Chair, Nominations Committee: Jenny Davis (3-year term begins 2016), Australian National University

2018-2019 Position Member Term Start Term End

Chair Deana Rohlinger 9/1/2018 8/31/2019

Chair-Elect Anabel Quan-Haase 9/1/2018 8/31/2019

Past Chair Wenhong Chen 9/1/2018 8/31/2019

Secretary/Treasurer Mito Akiyoshi 9/1/2017 8/31/2019

Nominations Committee Jenny L. Davis 9/1/2016 8/31/2019

Anabel Quan-Haase 9/1/2017 8/31/2020

Jeffrey Lane 9/1/2018 8/31/2021

Council Bryce Hannibal 9/1/2017 8/31/2019

Sarah Sobieraj 9/1/2017 8/31/2019

Apryl Williams 9/1/2018 8/31/2020

Timothy Recuber 9/1/2018 8/31/2020

Recognition of Service to the Section 2017-2018 CITAMS subcommittees

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Communications/Socio-technical outreach Committee: Anabel Quan-Haase (Twitter), Jessie Daniels/ Laura Robinson (website), Wenhong Chen (Facebook/Listserve) Media Sociology / Pre-conference Subcommittee: Laura Robinson, Bryce Hannibal, Paul Lopes Membership Committee: Sarah Sobieraj, Deana Rohlinger, Bryce Hannibal, Paul Lopes Newsletter Committee: Barry Wellman and Ian Sheinheit Reception/ CITAMS 30th anniversary committee: Keith Hampton, Wenhong Chen Roundtable Organizer: Sarah Sobieraj Sponsorship Committee: Laura Robinson and Wenhong Chen

Nominations Committee: Jeffrey Boase (Chair, j.boase@utoronto.ca), Jenny Davis (jennifer.davis@anu.edu.au), Anabel Quan-Haase (aquan@uwo.ca) Nomination and election, in spite of a technical error on the ballot. Working with ASA, Jeff Boase as nominating committee chair, and the section chair arranged a special election for the two positions of council member in June 2018. Awards Committees: 2018 CITAMS Award Results William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award Winner: W. Russell Neuman, Professor of Media Technology, NYU & Professor (Emeritus), Communication Studies, University of Michigan

2017-2018 Committee: Jessie Daniels (Chair), Gary T. Marx, Jennifer Earl, Eszter Hargittai Best Article Award Winner: Christopher A. Bail, Taylor W. Brown, and Marcus Mann. 2017. "Channeling Hearts and Minds: Advocacy Organizations, Cognitive-Emotional Currents, and Public Conversation." American Sociological Review 82(6):1188-1213.

2017-2018 Committee: Mito Akiyoshi(Chair), Arnout van de Rijt, Sarah Sobieraj Best Student Paper Award Co-winner: Scott W. Duxbury, Laura C. Frizzell, Sadé L. Lindsay, Ohio State University, Mental Illness, the Media, and the Moral Politics of Mass Violence: The Role of Race in Mass Shootings Coverage Co-winner: Ethel L. Mickey, Northeastern University, Doing Gender, Doing Networks: Exploring Individual Networking Strategies in High-Tech

2017-2018 Committee: Wenhong Chen (Chair), Arvind Karunakaran, Bryce Hannibal Best Book Award Winner: Christo Sims, University of California, San Diego, Disruptive Fixation: School Reform and the Pitfalls of Techno-Idealism (Princeton, 2018)

2017-2018 Committee: Deana Rohlinger (Chair), Phaedra Daipha, Mohammed Zayani, Grant Blank Public Sociology Award

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Winner: Professor Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, The New School for Social Research 2017-2018 Committee will be: Jeffrey Boase(Chair), Michael Stern, Leslie Jones

FUTURE STAFFING

Deana Rohlinger (incoming Chair) must appoint the following: Media Sociology Subcommittee: Roundtable Organizer: Membership Committee: Sponsorship Committee: Communications Committee: Reception/party planner for ASA 2019: Pre-conference planning for ASA 2019: Socio-technical outreach committee:

Communications Committee: Newsletter Committee: Student Representative These committees must be staffed according to CITAMS Bylaws (https://citams.org/section-bylaws/), which are as follows: Nominations Committee There shall be a Nominations Committee consisting of three members elected at-large by the entire voting membership of the Section. Members shall serve three year staggered terms with one person elected each year. One elected member shall retire each year. The current Section chair will serve as an ex-officio member. The committee member in their third year will serve as chair of this committee. Each year the Nominations Committee shall develop a slate of at least two candidates for each elected vacancy. The slate of nominees shall be placed on the ballot of the Section’s annual Election.

Career Achievement Award There shall be constituted each year a Career Achievement Award Committee to select the recipient of the William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award. This award recognizes a sustained body of research that has provided an outstanding contribution to the advancement of knowledge in the areas relevant to the section. The Committee shall consist of the immediate past-Chair, the most immediate prior winner of this award, and the council member serving in their second year of their term who has the last alphabetical last name. The immediate past-Chair will serve as chair of this committee. If any individuals are unable or unwilling to serve, the Section Chair, in consultation with the Nominations Committee, may appoint a replacement for that year. Paper ward There shall be constituted each year a Best Article Award Committee to select the recipient of the Paper Award. This award recognizes an outstanding published paper or book chapter on a topic relevant to the section. Submissions must be in English and published within the two calendar years prior to the award nomination deadline. The Committee shall consist of the Secretary/Treasurer, the most immediate prior winner of this award, and the council member serving in their first year of their term who has the last alphabetical last name. The

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Secretary/Treasurer will serve as chair of this committee. If any individuals are unable or unwilling to serve, the Section Chair, in consultation with the Nominations Committee, may appoint a replacement for that year. Student Paper Award There shall be constituted each year a Best Student Paper Award Committee to select the recipient of the Student Paper Award. This award recognizes an outstanding published or unpublished paper/book chapter on a topic relevant to the section, or an outstanding design or use of media, communication, or information technology. The Committee shall consist of the current chair of the section, the most immediate prior winner of this award, and the council member serving in their first year of their term who has the first alphabetical last name. The current section chair will serve as chair of this committee. If any individuals are unable or unwilling to serve, the Section Chair, in consultation with the Nominations Committee, may appoint a replacement for that year. Book Award There shall be constituted each year a Best Book Award Committee to select the recipient of the Book Award. This award recognizes an outstanding book on a topic relevant to the section. Submissions must be in English and published within the two calendar years prior to the award presentation. The Committee shall consist of the chair-elect of the section, the most immediate prior winner of this award, and the council member serving in their second year of their term who has the first alphabetical last name. The chair-elect will serve as chair of this committee. If any individuals are unable or unwilling to serve, the Section Chair, in consultation with the Nominations Committee, may appoint a replacement for that year. Public Sociology There shall be constituted each year a Public Sociology Award Committee to select the recipient of the Public Sociology Award. This award recognizes a specific achievement in teaching, the development or the use of a communication, media, or information technology, or the dissemination of knowledge that advances public understanding or engagement on topics of concern in the section. The Committee shall consist of the chair of the nominations committee, the most immediate prior winner of this award, and the student council member. The nominations committee chair will serve as chair of this committee. If any individuals are unable or unwilling to serve, the Section Chair, in consultation with the Nominations Committee, may appoint a replacement for that year. Time to follow to make sure awardee names appear in Annual Meeting Program Call for nomination: Jan/Feb Deadline for submission: March 15 Deadline for committee results: May 15 (or the latest May 31)

Report Financial Report: Mito Akiyoshi ($4989 as of July 31 2018)

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Membership Report: Sarah Sobieraj, Deana Rohlinger, Bryce Hannibal, Paul Lopes (341 as of July 31 2018) Sponsorships and Collaborations Laura Robinson and Wenhong Chen ($1500+) Communications Report: Anabel Quan-Haase (Twitter), Jessie Daniels/ Laura Robinson (website), Wenhong Chen (Facebook/Listserve) Twitter account has 269 followers. Facebook page has 266 followers.

Media Sociology Pre-Conference Report: Casey Brienza Media Sociology / Pre-conference Subcommittee: Casey Brienza, Founder and Chair, Laura Robinson

• Laura Robinson: sponsorship has ranged from $200 to $450 per year since 2015 approx with arrangement that all CITAMS members receive free registration—cost of registration is more than section membership so idea is that it will help with membership numbers.

• The section will continue its support to the media sociology preconference. The specific dollar amount would be determined by the current chair in consultation with other section leaders.

• The current CITAMS chair or his or her appointee is entitled to nominate a keynote speaker at the preconference.

• The current CITAMS chair or his or her appointee is entitled to organize a CITAMS panel at the preconference.

Newsletter Committee: Barry Wellman and Ian Sheinheit

Even with our listserv, it's nice to aggregate a good deal of information into one handy newsletter space, making the sum greater than the parts. Ian Sheinheit and Barry Wellman were excited to build community in CITAMS by editing and publishing two long newsletters that bring together some--certainly not all--of our multifaceted activity. With the merger of Media with Communication and Information, this is especially important.

Roundtable Organizer: Sarah Sobieraj. 10 roundtables are organized. See page 12. Reception/ CITAMS 30th anniversary committee: Keith Hampton led the search for the site of the section reception CITAMS@30. See page 13

OPPORTUNITIES Announcements

• Session publications CITMAS @30 (Laura Robinson/ Shelia Cotten et al.,)

1) TWO forthcoming CITAMS@30 volumes with Emerald 2) The one-time gift of $300 for the thirty year anniversary

• Current Calls: Emerald Series (Laura Robinson/ Shelia Cotten et al., 1 min) • Special Issue –ICS (Deana Rohlinger, 1 min)

• Oxford University Press：exploring the possibility of publishing an Oxford Handbook of the

Sociology of Communication, Information Technology, and Media (1 min).

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PROBLEMS/ISSUES /FUTURE BUSINESS

5. Nomination Committee (Anabel Quan-Haase is elected as Chair-elect) Shall Anabel vacate her seat on the Nominations Committee, the bylaws state the following in terms of filling an empty seat: “In the event of a vacancy in an office, a Council membership, or a committee membership, the Chairperson shall make an interim appointment to serve until a replacement is elected in the next annual election” and “In the event of the death, resignation, absence or the inability to serve of any members elected or appointed to a committee, the Section Chair, in consultation with the Nominations Committee, may appoint a member of the Section to fill the vacancy during the Chair's term of office.”

Resolution: Deana A. Rohlinger as the new chair will be in charge of this issue.

6. Communication Issues Website and Listserve Laura Robinson on Website

I am happy to keep updating it (especially re the sponsorship from Emerald and keeping that info up to date) and also happy to have others edit it as well. Whichever way, we need to put a link with the contact person on the main site who will post material as needed--OR see suggestion below for a posting page. Related to that, I have been paying the fees and getting reimbursed by the section. Again, happy to continue or to let someone else do it. The next year's fees will be due in early fall--I will keep paying them and asking for reimbursement until told otherwise. Here are issues to address: I would suggest going forward to: 1) try to link the listserv to the website OR have an open page where members can post their own announcements. We need to consider the possibility that someone could post objectionable material and consider some kind of caveat that we are not moderating the posts so that we are not responsible for the content OR decide the risk is not worth it. 2) As a number of different people have edited the pages and will no doubt do so in the future, the formatting is sometimes inconsistent. It would be helpful if everyone editing it used the same format.

Nick Lalone <nick.lalone@gmail.com> Feb 27 2018

I'm not really sure why i'm still the contact person for our mailing list host or why someone else hasn't been added. I left these tasks in the hand off folder as it is a significant point of possible vulnerability and bottleneck related to presentation as org. Also, I don't know why I still have administrative access to the CITAMS wordpress install. Resolution: Deana A. Rohlinger and Laura Robinson will coordinate.

7. William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award Clarity

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There was some confusion about the Career Award. The section has been giving out TWO categories for the Career Awward (mid-career and lifetime) since 2016, based on discussion at the council meeting in 2015. The Council and the Business meeting approved of a shared Senior/Mid-Career Ogburn Award in 2015. Yet, the 2017-2018 Career Award Committee decided to select one lifetime award, arguing that “this is actually not ok within the current bylaws of the section”. One nominee for the award complained that this was not fair as the committee did not announce publicly that there would be no mid-career award this year. Several past chairs pointed out that other awards in CITAMS or other ASA sections often have co-winners, honorable mentions etc. In 2017, we subsequently received approval from the ASA's sections office. Please see below.

Michael Murphy <Murphy@asanet.org> 9/1/17

Wenhong, Thanks for your e-mail. My read of what you outlined would be in line with current ASA policy. If you have any other questions, please let me know. Mike Michael Murphy Director, Administration and Governance American Sociological Association 1430 K Street NW Suite 600 Washington, DC 20005 From: Wenhong Chen <wenchen2006@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 6:22 PM To: Michael Murphy Subject: Re: Section 28 Rosters Dear Michael, I am Wenhong Chen, the 2017-2018 chair of CITAMS section (section 28). It was very nice chatting you at the ASA section officers orientation. At the orientation, a question was raised about the number of awards a section can give annually. Your answer is that the TYPE of awards should not exceed 5 but the NUMBER of awardees can go beyond 5. I would like to get your expert opinion on this situation. CITAMS has the following 5 types of awards 1. career achievement 2. paper 3. student paper 4. book 5. public sociology Starting from two years ago, the section council decided that for the career achievement awards, we should have one for senior one for mid-career. We would like to confirm this is in line with ASA policy.

Cheers,

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Wenhong Solution: The section did not have formal discussion, vote or communication whether we should remove the mid-career award for 2017-2018 or forever. The language and recent history of the award gives nominees and their nominators reasons to believe that there is a mid-career award. Moving forward, greater clarity is needed. There are several options:

• TWO categories of the Career awards (mid-career and lifetime) in each year

• TWO categories of the Career awards (mid-career and lifetime) for alternative year (e.g. if 2017-2018 is lifetime, 2018-2019 would be mid-career)

• Other options?

Resolution: The council decided to go for option 2: TWO categories of the Career awards (mid-career and lifetime) for alternative year (e.g. if 2017-2018 is lifetime, 2018-2019 would be mid-career)

8. Future finance and budget Deana Rohlinger

Dear Colleagues,

I would like CITAMS to consider adding potentially three bylaws related to fiscal management into our bylaws.

As you can see in the graph below, which reports the section’s finances from 1997 through 2017, the CITAMS budget can fluctuate fairly dramatically over time. In an effort to better manage the section finances from one year to the next, CITAMS should consider the following: 1) Requiring the section chair to create a budget, the council to improve it, and the Secretary-Treasurer to enforce it; 2) Requiring the section to craft a long-term budgeting plan; and 3) Requiring the Secretary-Treasurer to maintain the section’s records.

At least one other ASA section has moved to a 5-year budgeting model where current year expenditures are budgeted based on forecasts of future meeting costs, which vary substantially by city. At any given time, ASA makes the next several meeting locations available to members, allowing a section to determine the average cost of their receptions in that city and forecast a localized budget for their reception across the five year time frame. The table below shows an empty model worksheet the section could use for this kind of budgeting. As is clear from the table, it is actually possible to forecast a current year and seven additional years based on current ASA meeting locations. As the past Secretary-Treasurer, I created a Dropbox for the section and compiled information made available to me. This archive simply needs to be maintained.

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2017-2018 2018-2019

2019-2020 2020-2021

2021-2022

2022-2023 2023-2024

Chair: Wenhong Chen

Deana Rohlinger

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Meeting Location: Philadelphia NYC San Francisco

Chicago Los Angeles

Philadelphia Montreal

Section Day at ASAs: 2 3 4 1 2 3 4

Income

Carry Forward from Last Year

4178 3899

ASA Base Allocation 1739 1000

Dues, Total for Year 700

Development Receipts 0 0

Expenses

ASA Reception 1747 1700

Workshop 0 0

Awards (cash and plaques) 205 220

Council meeting 0 0

Co-Sponsorships 0 0

Other 0 0

Membership Number (used in estimating dues income for following year)

350

Resolution: Council adopts the suggestion and new budget practice will start from 2018-2019.

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Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology 2018 Programing

We have three CITAMAS’ section sessions at ASA Annual Meeting 2018 and two regular sessions CITAMS members may find relevant:

o Internet and Society (3) o Media Sociology (2)

Media and Power CITAMS session on Communication, Information Technologies, and MediaSociology section of the American Sociological Association welcomes papers that focus on any aspect of power and media writ large. Papers may examine any form of power and/or power inequalities in any form of media. Each paper presented at this session is also invited to be considered in the yearly CITAMS special issue of the Journal of Information, Communication and Society. Session Organizer: Laura Robinson, Santa Clara University CITAMS@30: Perspectives, Purposes and Promises Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the section, the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS) welcomes papers on the history, present and future of Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology, its place and role in sociology, the academe and the society. Each paper presented at this session is also invited to be considered in the yearly CITAMS special issue of the Journal of Information, Communication and Society. Session Organizer: Wenhong Chen, University of Texas at Austin Section on Communication, Information Technologies and Media Sociology Refereed Roundtables (one-hour). The CITAMS roundtable sessions are open to any paper falling under the topics present in our section's name: Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS) Thematically similar papers are grouped together into an average of 10-12 groups after submissions are closed. At the table, presenters are invited to discuss their research with authors who share similarly themed submissions. Generally, each presenter is given 5-10 minutes to give an overview of their work to the other CITAMS members sitting at the table with them. Discussion about the table’s corpus of knowledge is pursued until the end of the session. The goal of these roundtables is to foster community among the CITAMS members as well as offering an opportunity for previously disconnected researchers to meet each other. Previous table themes include: Media Sociology and Social Movements, Games and Play through Media and Communication Technology, Inequality and Communication; Communication Technology and Organizations; Communication and Social Construction, Representations and Resistance, Collective Meaning, Media Sociology and Issues of Access, and nearly every other configuration of media sociology and communication technologies can consider. Each paper presented at the roundtable is also invited to be considered for the yearly CITAMS special issue of the Journal of Information Communication and Society. Session Organizer: Sarah Sobieraj, Tufts University

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The Previous Year

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Describe section activities during the period between September 2017 and August 2018.

• Membership recruitment and retention – What efforts did the section make to retain members and reach out to new members? What were the results of the efforts?

Membership Report: Sarah Sobieraj, Deana Rohlinger, Bryce Hannibal, Paul Lopes (335 as of June 30 2018). Chair and membership committee members analyzed the membership list, reaching out to existing and potential members through email and social media. How to increase student membership has been discussed. Members were requested to reach out to students. Timing of student gift membership was discussed.

• Communications – How does the section communicate with its members? Did it begin using any new technologies or strategies? If so, were they effective? Include links to the section website, newsletters, and any other electronic media used.

Communications Report: Anabel Quan-Haase (Twitter), Jessie Daniels/ Laura Robinson (website), Wenhong Chen (Facebook/Listserve) Twitter account has 269 followers. Facebook page has 266 followers. Newsletter Committee: Barry Wellman and Ian Sheinheit

Even with our listserv, it's nice to aggregate a good deal of information into one handy newsletter space, making the sum greater than the parts. Ian Sheinheit and Barry Wellman were excited to build community in CITAMS by editing and publishing two long newsletters that bring together some--certainly not all--of our multifaceted activity. With the merger of Media with Communication and Information, this is especially important. Website: https://citams.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CITAMSASA/ Twitter: @CITAMS_ASA

CITAMS@30 section reception was held at Dave & Buster's, Sunday, August 12 @ 6pm, 325 N

Christopher Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19106, to celebrate the section’s 30th anniversary.

Jenny Davis, Jason Smith, and Barry Wellman coedited the section’s annual special issue with Information, Communication & Societ in 2018.

Laura Robinson, Shelia Cotten, Casey Brienza, Barry Wellman and Wenhong Chen co-edited

two volumes celebrating CITAMS@30 for Emerald Studies in Media and Communications.

Contributors, including past Chairs, council members, as well as members will revisit the

section history, examine important themes relevant to the thirty-year section history, and imagine

the section future.

• Mentoring – What, if any, mentoring opportunities does the section offer to students, early career faculty, nonfaculty, etc.?

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Graduate students, junior faculty, as well as nonfaculty are invited to participate in various events and activities of the section, including the media sociology pre-conference, newsletter/communication, section panels and roundtables as well as activities celebrating the section’s 30th anniversary.

• Programming – Provide an overview of the section’s programming at the annual meeting, scholarly/ professional development activities outside of the annual meeting, development of substantive resources, partnerships with other sections or groups, etc.

We have three CITAMAS’ section sessions at ASA Annual Meeting 2018 and two regular sessions CITAMS members may find relevant:

o Internet and Society (3) o Media Sociology (2)

Media and Power CITAMS session on Communication, Information Technologies, and MediaSociology section of the American Sociological Association welcomes papers that focus on any aspect of power and media writ large. Papers may examine any form of power and/or power inequalities in any form of media. Each paper presented at this session is also invited to be considered in the yearly CITAMS special issue of the Journal of Information, Communication and Society. Session Organizer: Laura Robinson, Santa Clara University CITAMS@30: Perspectives, Purposes and Promises Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the section, the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS) welcomes papers on the history, present and future of Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology, its place and role in sociology, the academe and the society. Each paper presented at this session is also invited to be considered in the yearly CITAMS special issue of the Journal of Information, Communication and Society. Session Organizer: Wenhong Chen, University of Texas at Austin Section on Communication, Information Technologies and Media Sociology Refereed Roundtables (one-hour). The CITAMS roundtable sessions are open to any paper falling under the topics present in our section's name: Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS) Thematically similar papers are grouped together into an average of 10-12 groups after submissions are closed. At the table, presenters are invited to discuss their research with authors who share similarly themed submissions. Generally, each presenter is given 5-10 minutes to give an overview of their work to the other CITAMS members sitting at the table with them. Discussion about the table’s corpus of knowledge is pursued until the end of the session. The goal of these roundtables is to foster community among the CITAMS members as well as offering an opportunity for previously disconnected researchers to meet each other. Previous table themes include: Media Sociology and Social Movements, Games and Play through Media and Communication Technology, Inequality and Communication; Communication Technology and Organizations; Communication and Social Construction, Representations and Resistance, Collective Meaning, Media Sociology and Issues of Access, and nearly every other configuration of media sociology and communication technologies can consider. Each paper presented at the roundtable is

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also invited to be considered for the yearly CITAMS special issue of the Journal of Information Communication and Society. Session Organizer: Sarah Sobieraj, Tufts University

Plans for the Coming Year Describe section plans for the period between September 2018 and August 2019. These plans should align with the 2018 budget and proposed 2019 budget below.

• Membership recruitment and retention – What efforts will the section make to retain members and reach out to new members? What are the goals of the efforts? DR: This is a problem for the section. I have sent lapsed members emails urging them to rejoin, reinstated regular communication with members via the ASA listserv, and put together a team to expand our online presence and activity. I am also sponsoring the 2019 reception with two larger sections – SKAT and CBSM, and have invited scholars who represent the section’s diversity to organize panels this year. We are making a concerted effort to publicize the work and achievements of CITAMS members and member, Andrew Linder, has agreed to spearhead a student outreach/faculty pairing effort beginning in January 2019. The goal is to grow and create more of a community in the section.

• Communications – How does the section plan to communicate with its members? Does the section plan on using any new technologies or strategies? If so, how? DR: We have a newsletter and a website. We are expanding our activities on both as well as making a concerted effort to increase our social media presence. This is working so far. We’ve gained about 150 followers on Twitter and 50 on Facebook.

• Mentoring – What efforts will the section make to mentor students, early career faculty, nonfaculty, etc.? DR: The section currently does not do this at all and, long term, needs to have a mentoring program. I will see if I can build support for a program since I helped put together the one for CBSM. I am working with Data & Society to organize a grad student-faculty mixer and information session so that sociologists can learn about non-academic jobs, and will include a non-academic job roundtable in our ASA session.

• Programming – Provide an overview of the section’s upcoming plans for programming at the annual meeting, scholarly/ professional development activities outside of the annual meeting, development of substantive resources, partnerships with other sections or groups, etc. DR: The 2019 sessions will focus on 1) entertainment and diversity and 2) journalism and diversity. This reflects an effort to better represent a broader range of member interest and attract graduate students to the section. Outside of the meeting, I am working with Data & Society to provide members an opportunity to meet (and potentially collaborate with) their staff. The opportunity will be extended to reception co-sponsors (SKAT and CBSM) in an effort to maximize the events networking potential. CITAMS will also help sponsor the Media Sociology Pre-Conference.

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2018 Finances Provide a narrative on how the 2018 budget matched with actual expenses and income from 2018. Please account for any substantive differences.

New budget practice will start from 2018-2019.

Budget for 2019 Creating a budget will help the section plan its activities for the year. Your 2019 budget should reflect the narrative in the “Plans for the Coming Year” section. The following table will help you organize and calculate a budget. Expected 2019 Expenditures

Expense Category Budgeted Amount Details (use the cells in this column to provide information on each expense)

Annual Meeting

Reception $1700 Use this space to provide details

Other Meeting Expenses $ 0 Use this space to provide details

Awards

Student Awards $ 0 Use this space to provide details

Award Plaques $ 220 Use this space to provide details

Other $ 0 Use this space to provide details

Communications

Website $ 70 Use this space to provide details

Newsletter $ 0 Use this space to provide details

Other $ 0 Use this space to provide details

Miscellaneous

Membership $ 0 Use this space to provide details

Other $ 0 Use this space to provide details

Total 2019 Budgeted Expenditures

$ 1990 Sum estimated expenses

Estimated 2019 Income

Income Category Estimated Amount Details

Section Allocation – Base $ 1000 ASA Office will provide figure mid-October. See note 1 on how this figure is calculated.

Section Allocation – Per Member $ 700 ASA Office will provide figure mid-October. See note 2 on how this figure is calculated.

Premium Dues $ 0 ASA Office will provide an estimated figure. See note 3 on how this figure is calculated.

Contributions $ 500

Misc $ 0

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Total 2019 Estimated Income $ 2200 Sum estimated income

Budget Summary

Estimated Remaining Balance at end of December 2018 $ 3899

Accounting for all estimated costs for the remainder of the year, estimate the remaining balance.

Total 2019 Estimated Income +$ 2200 Fill in from the Estimated Income table above

Total 2019 Budgeted Expenditures

- $ 1990 Fill in from the Budgeted Expenditures table above

Total = $ 4109 To calculate net amount, sum Lines 1 and 2, then subtract Line 3.

Notes The following explains how income is calculated. By October 20, the ASA Office will provide the following information, so sections do not have to calculate estimates themselves.

1 Section Allocation – Base Based off of this year’s final membership count as of September 30, sections receive a base allocation as follows:

• Sections with 300 or more members receive a base allocation of $1,000

• Sections with fewer than 300 members and more than 200 members receive: [# of section members - 100] x $5

• Sections with fewer than 199 members receive a base allocation of $500 2 Section Allocation – Per Member Based off of this year’s final membership count as of September 30, sections receive two dollars for each member. 3 Premium Dues The base rate is $10 for regular members, $5 for students and $10 for associate, low income, and high school teacher members. Any dues raised by the sections in excess of the base rate go directly to the section throughout the year based on actual membership numbers. Subscription Fees for Section Journals are not added here.

To see current and historical membership counts, please visit www.asanet.org/SectionMembership. Please note that membership year ends on September 30.

Miscellaneous Is there any additional information about the section or the area of study you would like to share with the Committee on Sections? Is there any feedback you would like to provide to the Committee on Sections?

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