I haven't seen this news posted here yet so here it goes... Many thanks to Anabel and Bernie for putting this special issue together! --Guillaume ---- A special issue on "Social Media" of the Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society (BSTS) has just been released. Note that until Oct. 15, all Sage journals are offering open access (upon free registration). Table of Contents (http://bst.sagepub.com/content/current ) October 2010; 30 (5): Persistence and Change in Social Media - Bernie Hogan and Anabel Quan-Haase Dynamic Debates: An Analysis of Group Polarization Over Time on Twitter - Sarita Yardi and Danah Boyd Tweeting Prayers and Communicating Grief Over Michael Jackson Online - Jimmy Sanderson and Pauline Hope Cheong Logging On and Letting Out: Using Online Social Networks to Grieve and to Mourn - Brian Carroll and Katie Landry Uses and Gratifications of Social Media: A Comparison of Facebook and Instant Messaging - Anabel Quan-Haase and Alyson L. Young Metaphors of Synchrony: Emergence and Differentiation of Online Chat Devices - Guillaume Latzko-Toth ------------ Guillaume Latzko-Toth, Ph.D. Postdoctoral fellow Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago