Dear Colleagues,

For the second time, the journal Information, Communication and Society (ICS) (Routledge) will publish an annual special issue in cooperation with the ASA section on Communication and Information Technologies. The special issue will be comprised of papers presented at the 2008 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Boston, this August. Barry Wellman (University of Toronto) and Christena Nippert-Eng (Illinois Institute of Technology) will be the editors.

We invite you to submit the paper you're presenting at the ASAs for consideration in this special issue. (If you have more than one appropriate paper, please select the most promising and submit only that one to us.)

Please send your submission to *both*

Barry Wellman

AND

Christena Nippert-Eng

We also encourage you to meet with us at the reception for the Communication and Information Technologies at the ASAs. (See http://www.citasa.org/conferences/.)

Deadlines: Full papers are due by November 3, 2008 (This is an absolutely firm deadline. Early submissions are encouraged!)

Refereeing will be complete by December 31, 2008.

Final accepted papers will be due to the editors by February 3, 2008 with an ICS publication date of June 2009.

We hope to hear from you.
Chris and Barry