Everyone - Erika Pearson and I are organizing a panel for the conference this October and looking for papers that would work together under our theme. The preliminary summary is below. Please email your paper proposals/abstracts to me at stuszynski@bethanywv.edu and to Erika at erika.pearson@otago.ac.nz if you'd like to be considered. This panel seeks to explore the ways relationships are constructed (and misconstructed online). From questions of "What is a friend?" to the weak ties of Twitter followers, this panel looks at both critical theorizing and user experience of online socialization. Together, these papers consider ways to redefine the complex bonds that are currently lumped together under the broad and overused label 'friend.'" Stephanie Tuszynski Assistant Professor of Communication Bethany College This message may contain confidential information for the use of the addressee(s) above and may contain legally privileged information. If you are not the addressee, or the person responsible for delivering it to the addressee, you are hereby notified that reading, disseminating, distributing or copying this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message by mistake, immediately notify us by replying to the message and delete the original message immediately. Thank you.