Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ FRSC NetLab Network INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $15 Kindle $9 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________ Dear AoIR Members ASA's Section on Communications and Information Technologies is running a membership drive right now. And if you are a student who is already an American Sociological Association member, you are eligible for a FREE CITASA membership! Just fill out the online form at the following address to receive a free section membership: http://tinyurl.com/CITASA-freestudent The deadline is September 20th for requesting a free membership. Please note: we can only provide the free section memberships, so students must already be a member of the ASA, but that is already true for all students who attended the recent annual meetings in San Francisco. As background, the number of panels that CITASA gets at each ASA is directly determined by section membership. Thus, each membership is important to maintaining a vibrant space for research on communications and technology. If we can get about 25 students to request free section memberships (which is not unusual), we are likely to go over the 400 member mark for the first time in our history and get an additional session at the 2015 ASAs! Also we are creating a section that will foster more work in Media Sociology, which includes creating more space and opportunities for those scholars to share their work. So, we really hope you will forward this to any student who might be eligible and implore them to fill out this online form. Thanks so much for your help in this effort! Sincerely, Barry Wellman and Erin M. Evans PhD Candidate Department of Sociology University of California, Irvine emevans@uci.edu http://www.sociology.uci.edu/socio_grad_profile/emevans