Hello All, I am very pleased to announce that the special issue of *Information, Communication & Society* featuring articles presented at the 2011 ASA Meeting is now available online through Taylor & Francis’ iFirst service. Please see below for the table of contents or link to the articles at: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/showAxaArticles?journalCode=rics20 As with previous issues, this annual issue is sponsored by CITASA. <http://www.tandfonline.com/action/showAxaArticles?journalCode=rics20>On behalf of myself and Gina Neff, the co-editor on the issue, I would like to thank everyone for participating. Thanks to the authors for their contributions and for their help in showcasing some of the excellent work that is happening across the CITASA section. *INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY* Volume 15, Number 4, May 2012 *Special Issue: **Communication and Information Technologies Section (ASA) Special Issue* *CONTENTS* *Editorial Comment: * *The Social Matrix of the Emergent Web: Governance, Exchange, Participation, & Engagement. Introduction to the ASA Communication and Information Technologies Section 2012 Special Issue* * **Gina Neff and Laura Robinson* * * *ARTICLES* * * *SECTION 1: Structures of Governance and Exchange* * * *Digital formations of the powerful and the powerless: the case of informal political knowledge* *Saskia Sassen* * * *Caring capital websites* *Ronald E. Anderson* * * *Hacking the global: constructing markets and commons through free software* *Sara Schoonmaker* * * *The exchange of material culture among rock fans in online communities* *Andrea J. Baker* * * ** *SECTION 2: Participation, Movements & Engagement* * * *The participatory web: a user perspective on Web 2.0* *Grant Blank & Bianca C. Reisdorf * * * *The trend of class, race and ethnicity in social media inequality: who still can’t afford to blog? * *Jen Schradie* * * *Communicating injustice? Framing and online protest against Chinese government land expropriation* *Qiongyou Pu & Stephen J. Scanlan* * * *Private protest? Public and private engagement online* *Jennifer Earl* Laura Robinson www.laurarobinson.org laura@laurarobinson.org Assistant Professor Department of Sociology Santa Clara University <laura@laurarobinson.org> <laura@laurarobinson.org> Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Sociology Cornell University <laura@laurarobinson.org>