The management of this chapter of the Internet Society is handled by an elected Management Board:

• Shaula Haitner
• Dr. Alon Hasgal
• Rimon Levy (President)
• Prof. Judit Bar-Ilan
• Prof. Gustavo S. Mesch
• Shuky Peleg (Joshua) Peleg
• Elad Salomons
• Doron Shikmoni
• Dr. Yesha Sivan

http://www.ncsanet.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/2012-CALL-FOR-PAPERS1.pdf

2012 CALL FOR PAPERS If you are interested in presenting in a session, please submit your abstract online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ncsasubmissions . All submissions will be forwarded to the session organizer for their consideration, and they will inform you about the acceptance of your paper after the submission deadline has passed. Any questions regarding session specifics or topics should be addressed to the session organizer at the email below.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE December 15, 2011
If you are unable to locate an appropriate session, please contact one of the following organizers:

TECHNOLOGY
Sociology of Technology
Robert Shelby
University of Louisville
rlshel04@cardmail.louisville.edu

Media, Technology, and Society
Lynn Ritchey
University of Cincinnati – RWC
lynn.ritchey@uc.edu

PITTSBURGH
The Sociology of Pittsburgh
Norman Conti
Duquesne University
normanconti@gmail.com
From Coal to Shale: A Look at the Impacts of Extractive Industries on Communities in Pennsylvania
closed to submissions
Devynn Brant
Bucknell University
RENEWING SOCIOLOGY
History of Sociology
Lawrence T. Nichols
West Virginia University
Larry.Nichols@mail.wvu.edu
ANIMALS and SOCIETY
Animals and Society
Paul Becker
University of Dayton
Paul.Becker@notes.udayton.edu
APPLIED and PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY
Applied and Public Sociology
Natalie Haber-Barker
Northwestern University
nhaberbarker@childrensmemorial.org
BODY
Social Construction of the Body
Jennifer Carter
University of Cincinnati
carterja@mail.uc.edu
Sociology of the Body
Christine Mattley
Ohio University
mattley@ohio.edu
Sociology of Hair
Scarlett Stack
University of Cincinnati
stackks@mail.uc.edu
CRIMINOLOGY
Sexual Violence on Campus
Marla Kohlman Kenyon College
kohlmanm@kenyon.edu
Gender & Crime in the Media
Rachel Stein
West Virginia University
rachel.stein@mail.wvu.edu
Politics, Crime, and the Legal System
Chad Malone
The Ohio State University
malone.61@sociology.osu.edu
Alcohol-related Crime and Deviance
Karen Weiss
West VIrginia University
karen.weiss@mail.wvu.edu
DEVIANCE
Deviance
Leslie Elrod
University of Cincinnati–Blue Ash
Leslie.Elrod@uc.edu
Positive Deviance
Peter Barr
The University of Akron
pbb2@zips.uakron.edu
Framing Deviance and Public Opinion
Patricia Case
University of Toledo
Patricia.Case@utoledo.edu
EDUCATION
Sociology of Education
Lisa Hickman
Grand Valley State University
hickmanl@gvsu.edu
Inequality in America’s Schools: Inequality, Violence, and Achievement
Laci Fiala Walsh University
lfialaades@walsh.edu
FAMILY SOCIOLOGY
Notions of Family
Marla H. Kohlman
Kenyon College
kohlmanm@kenyon.edu
Intersectional Notions of Family
Marla Kohlman
Kenyon College
kohlmanm@kenyon.edu
Families: Issues and Inequalities
Donielle Boop
University of Cincinnati
boopdl@mail.uc.edu
Deviant Parents
Michelle Bemiller
Walsh University
mbemiller@walsh.edu
Constructing Family with Children Born of Assisted Reproductive Technology
Medora Barnes and Kimberly Dugan
John Carroll University and Eastern Connecticut State University
mbarnes@mirapoint.jcu.edu and dugank@easternct.edu
Research on Fatherhood
Nicholas A Jordan
The Ohio State University
jordan.455@buckeyemail.osu.edu
CHILDHOOD
Sociology of Childhood
Lisa Hickman
Grand Valley State University
hickmanl@gvsu.edu
Child Marriage in Indonesia closed to submissions
Basilica Dyah Putranti
Gadjah Mada University
ECONOMIC ISSUES
The Recession’s Impact on Well-Being
Julia Waity
Indiana University
jwaity@indiana.edu
Current Social Issues: Economy, Globalization, Class Bias in College Education, and
the Changing Political Climate in the U.S.
Fayyaz Hussain
Michigan State University
hussain3@msu.edu
Retirement: Implications of the Changing Times
Elizabeth Ann Whitaker
Central Michigan University
whita1ea@cmich.edu
Going…Going…Gone? Faculty Rights in an Era of Tight State Budgets, For-profit Higher Education, and the Increase in Contingent Faculty
Suzan Waller
Franklin University
wallers@franklin.edu
FOOD and ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
Food and Environmental Sustainability
Tim Bauer
Western Michigan University
timothy.e.bauer@wmich.edu
GENDER and SEXUALITY
Teenage Sexuality
Wanda McCarthy
University of Cincinnati
wanda.mccarthy@uc.edu
LGBTQ Studies
Cody Wedge
Western Michigan University
cody.l.wedge@wmich.edu
Sociology of Sexuality
Kelli Chapman
University of Cincinnati
chapmakr@mail.uc.edu
Sexuality
Wanda C. McCarthy
University of Cincinnati
wanda.mccarthy@uc.edu
Issues of Gender and Power
Marla Kohlman
Kenyon College
kohlmanm@kenyon.edu
GLOBAL ISSUES
Global Health
Dorothy Kalanzi
Gannon University
Kalanzi001@gannon.edu
Globalization: Theorizing, Measuring and Assessing the Changing Dynamics of Global Cities
Brendan Mullan
Michigan State University
Mullan@Msu.edu
Conflict and Political Change in the Developing World Robert M. Anthony
Ohio State University
anthony.74@sociology.osu.edu
Globalizing Trends in Disaster Sociology
Dana M. Greene
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
greenedm@email.unc.edu
Sociology of Globalization
Darrick Brake
Western Michigan University
darrick.l.brake@wmich.edu
LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY
Issues in Social and Public Policy
Joseph Yenerall
Duquesne University
yenerall@duq.edu
Social Policy Issues
Frances L. Shupe
University of Louisville
flshup01@louisville.edu
Leadership in Society
Barbara Jones Denison
Shippensburg University
bjdeni@ship.edu
MASCULINITIES
Social Construction of Masculinities
Susan Alexander
Saint Mary’s College
salexand@saintmarys.edu
Men and Masculinities
Marci Cottingham
University of Akron
mdc63@uakron.edu
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MEDICAL and HEALTH
Medical Sociology
Dorothy Kalanzi
Gannon University
Kalanzi001@gannon.edu
The Challenges of Care Work: Theory and Practice
Mary Tuominen
Denison University
tuominen@denison.edu
Social Psychology and Health
Joy Harvell
University of Akron
jgh22@zips.uakron.edu
Health and Society
Rebecca Brooks
Ohio Northern University
r-brooks.1@onu.edu
HIV and AIDS
Carolette Norwood
University of Cincinnati
carolette.norwood@uc.edu
Population Health
Maggie Rechel
The Ohio State University
merechel@gmail.com
Plagues, Epidemics, and Contagions
Kent Schwirian
The Ohio State University Schwirian.2@sociology.osu.edu
MEDIA
Sociology of Media
Christine Mattley
Ohio University
mattley@ohio.edu
Media, Culture and Politics
Joshua Woods
West Virginia University
joshua.woods@mail.wvu.edu
RACE and ETHNICITY
Race & (Post-racial) Structure
Baranda Sawyers
Lansing Community College
barandasawyers@gmail.com
Race, Racism and the Obama Presidency
Robert Newby
Central Michigan University
newby1rg@cmich.edu
Race and Inequality
David Purcell
Kent State University
dpurcell@kent.edu
Racial and Ethnic Identities
Leslie T. C. Wang
Saint Mary’s College
lwang@saintmarys.edu
Impact of Tradition and Culture on Issues of Identity, Immigration, and Social Justice among Minority Communities
Heather Rodriguez
Marian University
hrodriguez@marian.edu
RELIGION
Sociology of Religion
Christopher Bradley
Indiana – Purdue University Fort Wayne
bradleyc@ipfw.edu
RESEARCH METHOLODOGY
Sociology of Narrative
Lawrence T. Nichols
West Virginia University
Larry.Nichols@mail.wvu.edu
Researching Vulnerable Populations
Meghan Novisky
Kent State University
mnovisky@kent.edu
Outside the Laboratory: New Applications of Traditional Experimental Paradigms
Lisa Dilks
West Virginia University
lisa.dilks@mail.wvu.edu
SOCIAL PROBLEMS and ISSUES
Framing Social Issues
Annulla Linders
University of Cincinnati
annulla.linders@uc.edu
Social Inequality
Mary S. Senter
Central Michigan University
Mary.Senter@cmich.edu
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Social Movements
Annulla Linders
University of Cincinnati
annulla.linders@uc.edu
Social Movement Activism: Responses and Involvement in Collective Efforts at Social Change
Eric Swank
Morehead State University
e.swank@morehead-st.edu
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Self and Identity
Jay Hays and Michael Steiner
Kent State University and The University of Akron
jwhays@kent.edu ; mcs57@zips.uakron.edu
Self, Identity, and Social Inequality
Lindsey Ayers and Sarah Samblanet
Kent State University
layers2@kent.edu ssamblan@kent.edu
The Handling of Conflict in Everyday Life
Jason Manning
West Virginia University
jason.manning@mail.wvu.edu
Self, Identity, and Mental Health
Mary Gallagher
Kent State University
mngallag@kent.edu
Social Process and Building the Social Self
Patricia Case
University of Toledo
Patricia.Case@utoledo.edu
SOCIOLOGY
Sociology: Profession, Freedom, and Responsibility
Fayyaz Hussain
Western Michigan University
hussain3@msu.edu
SPORTS
Sociology of Sports
Carrie S. Erlin
Saint Mary’s College
cerlin@saintmarys.edu
TECHNOLOGY
Sociology of Technology
Robert Shelby
University of Louisville
rlshel04@cardmail.louisville.edu
Media, Technology, and Society
Lynn Ritchey
University of Cincinnati – RWC
lynn.ritchey@uc.edu
THEORY
Sociological Theory and Contemporary Issues
Robert Carrothers
Ohio Northern University
r-carrothers@onu.edu
Issues in Sociological Theory
Darrick Brake
Western Michigan University
darrick.l.brake@wmich.edu
Undergraduate Student Research Session: Capstone Research on Intersectionality Theory closed to submissions
Kristin Park
Westminster College, PA
URBANIZATION and CITIES
Urban Sociology
Natalie Haber-Barker
Northwestern University
nhaberbarker@childrensmemorial.org
New & Old Kids on the Block: Change in American Cities
Amanda Staight
University of Cincinnati
staighaj@mail.uc.edu
Gangs and Deviance in Communities
John Smithers
University of Illinois at Chicago Jsmit42@uic.edu
Population Issues
Elias T. Nigem
University Of Toledo
Enigem@utnet.utoledo.edu
WAR, PEACE and CONFLICT
Peace, War, and Conflict
Steve Carlton-Ford
University of Cincinnati
carltosl@uc.edu
Peace and War
Julie Hart and Todd Callais Ohio Dominican University
hartj@ohiodominican.edu
NCSA Student Section
The NCSA Student Section exists as a resource to: facilitate student involvement in the NCSA, connect graduate and undergraduate students, provide an informal and welcoming environment for network building, and support one another in our sociological career. Please submit ideas and suggestions for activities and sessions that you would like to see offered for students at the next conference. Ideas may be submitted to nsca.student@gmail.com or on the NCSA FaceBook page.

Information for 2012 NCSA Session Organizers
In addition to the Call for Papers in this newsletter, information is also posted on the NCSA website at ncsanet.org.
All paper submissions from potential presenters will be collected electronically via a link on the NCSA website and within the call for papers itself. The deadline for paper submissions will be December 15, 2011. After that date you will receive an email with a copy of all paper titles, abstracts, authors’ names, and their institutional affiliations which have been submitted to your session. If you would like full papers to review you may request them directly from the authors at that time.
After December 15, session organizer will select which papers are appropriate to include in your session. Please note that sessions are limited to 75 minutes in length, which provides a forum for 3-5 paper presentations and time for discussion. If you receive a high number of submissions, you may elect to split your session into two or more themed sessions. It will be at the discretion of session organizers to cancel a session with 2 or fewer papers.
Session organizers are responsible for entering the information of presenters in their sessions into the online portal, which will be posted after December 15 A link will be provided after December 15.
IMPORTANT: Session organizers are responsible for contacting those individuals who submit to your session to advise them as to the acceptance of their paper for presentation.
All presenters and organizers are also required to both be members of the NCSA at the time of the conference as well as register for the conference. Organizers should provide this information to session participants along with your expectations regarding length of time each presenter will have in your session. NCSA membership, conference registration, and hotel registration information is available on the NCSA website ncsanet.org.
2012 Registration Fees
Professional $75
Student $25
High School Teachers’ Workshop $100
Undergraduate group $100

North Central Sociological Association 2011 Ruth and John Useem Plenary
Address: Pragmatism and Ideology in Revolutionary Leadership                      Jack A. Goldstone
Culture, Context, or Religion: What Really Gets Single Mothers down the Aisle
Shannon N. Davis
Housing for Families but Not for People: Federal Policy and Normative Family Ideals in Midcentury California
Jon R. Norman
Individual-Level Predictors of Perceived Safety: Data from an International Sample
Shelly A. McGrath and Stacilyn Chananie-Hill
The Impact of the Economic Downturn, Immigrants, and Political Representation on White Supremacist Group Organization
in the United States
Stacia Gilliard-Matthews

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for the annual North Central Sociological Association meeting
April 12-15, 2012

On-line submission link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/S73ZRT7

If you are interested in organizing a session, please use the on-line submission link above or
send a title and a very brief description of your session to the appropriate conference organizers by September 1, 2012.

Research Paper Sessions Organizer
Carrie Erlin, Saint Mary’s College cerlin@saintmarys.edu

Teaching Sessions Organizer
Melinda Messineo, Ball State University mmessineo@bsu.edu

Thematic Panels and Workshops Organizer
Carrie Erlin, Saint Mary’s College cerlin@saintmarys.edu

Non-thematic Panels and Workshops Organizer
Melissa Holtzman, Ball State University
mkholtzman@bsu.edu

High School Workshop Organizer
Keith Roberts, Hanover College robertsk@hanover.edu

Local Arrangements and Presentations
Barbara Denison, Shippensburg University bjdeni@ship.edu

Preparing Future Faculty Panels
Jay Howard, Butler University jhoward@butler.edu

North Central Student Sociology Conference (NCSSC)
Gail McGuire, Indiana University–South Bend gmcguire@iusb.edu

If you have any questions about whether your session would be appropriate or would like to organize a session
please contact Carrie Erlin, Program Chair, Saint Mary’s College, cerlin@saintmarys.edu

The complete Table of Contents of the 2011 June issue follows

Volume 14, Number 4, June 2011

Special Issue: Communication and Information Technologies Section (ASA) Special Issue

CONTENTS

Editorial Comment:  ICT: From Social Adoption to Social Effects

Gustavo S. Mesch & Nalini P. Kotamraju

 ARTICLES

Using affordable technology to decrease digital inequality: results from Birmingham’s one laptop per child xo laptop project

Sheila Cotton, Timothy Hale, Michael Moroney, LaToya O’Neal & Casey Borch

Ethnic differences in internet access: the role of occupation and exposure

Gustavo S. Mesch & Ilan Talmud

 Information-channel preferences and information-opportunity-structures

Laura Robinson

 IT use and leisure time displacement: convergent evidence over the last 15 years

Paul Robinson

 Comparing bonding and bridging ties for democratic engagement: everyday use of communication technologies within core networks for civic and civil behaviors

Keith Hampton

 Socioeconomic status updates: Family SES and emergent social capital in college student Facebook networks

Brandon Brooks, Howard Welser, Bernie Hogan & Scott Titsworth

 Reconceptualizing the public/private distinction in the age of information technology

Sarah Ford

 The latino cyber-moral panic process in the United States

Nadia Flores-Yeffal, Guadalupe Vidales & April Plemons

Internet adoption expanded rapidly in recent years and its use is been associated with the formation of social networks, the accumulation of social capital and a wage premium. Thus, lack of Internet access might reflect past social inequalities and lead to its amplification. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the sources of ethnic differential access to the Internet. The central assumption is that in deeply divided societies, where there is a partial, but significant, overlap between ethnicity and the occupational structure, disadvantaged minorities lack digital access, as they are concentrated in occupations that are not exposed to computers and the Internet. The hypotheses were tested with a representative sample of the Israeli population, a deeply divided society according to ethnic lines. The findings indicate that Arab Israelis are less likely to have access to the Internet because they are concentrated in blue-collar occupations that are not exposed at work to computers and the Internet. Furthermore, lack of exposure foments the development of negative attitudes to technology that presumably defer them from adopting the Internet. The implications of the findings for the replication of digital inequalities in society are discussed.

An earlier version of the study can be downloaded at

http://soc.haifa.ac.il/~gustavo/mesch&talmudDD.pdf

Edited and published at the Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Haifa, in association with Paradigm Publishers, Boulder, Colorado ISSN 0038-0237

Editor: Gustavo S. Mesch

The Three Cultures of Postindustrial societies Ralph Schroeder

 From Obama to Osama: Image of God and Trust in Muslims among the Highly Religious in the United States Wesley M. Hinze, F. Carson Mencken, & Charles M. Tolbert

Coexistence in the Urban Economy: Native Whites, European Immigrants, and the Retail Trade in the Late-Nineteenth-Century United States Robert L. Boyd

 Investigating the Biasing Effect of Identity in Self-Reports of Socially Desirable Behavior Philip S. Brenner

for submissions

http://www.sociologicalfocus.net

Taking advantage of Israel’s multi-ethnic society, divided along ethnic and immigrant lines, I tested the diversification hypothesis with a large sample of Internet users that resemble the country’s population of Internet users. According to the diversification hypothesis, in socially segregated societies disadvantaged groups have deficits in social capital, particularly bridging social capital. Their use of channels of online communication will be motivated by an attempt to compensate for their disadvantage, and will direct the use of IT to expand their occupational and business ties. From this argument two hypothesis were derived. First, minority and immigrants will be more likely to choose the use of the IT best suited to this task. The findings of the study mostly support this hypothesis. Controlling for socio-demographic and minority status, it was found that people who are motivated to use the Internet to expand business and professional contacts are more likely to use Chat rooms and weblogs. At the same time those motivated to use the Internet to maintain ties with families and friends are more likely to use social networking sites. This finding indicates that each IT application is perceived by users to be suited to a different task.As for the specific hypothesis that minorities and immigrants will be more likely than Israeli Jews to use chat rooms and weblogs to expand their social ties, the results  are mixed. Regarding chat rooms, there is only support for immigrants being more likely than Arab Israelis to use chat rooms. Regarding weblogs, the latter proved more likely to use them than immigrants and Israeli Jews. The three groups did not differ from their use of social networking sites.

Second, a more direct test of the diversification hypothesis was conducted. The hypothesis that Arab Israelis and Immigrants have different motivations for the use of IT was tested by means of OLS regression multivariate analysis. The findings here indicated that the main difference was between Israeli Jews and Immigrants on the one hand and Arab Israelis on the other. Immigrants and Israeli Jews proved more likely than Arab Israelis to use IT for maintaining family ties and to sustaining ties with existing friends. At the same time Arab Israelis were shown as more likely to use IT to make new contacts and to expand their business contacts.

Taking the results together the strongest support of the diversification hypothesis seems to apply to the Arab Israeli population than to the immigrants. This difference might be explained through the differences existing between the two groups in society. As shown in the descriptive analysis, the Arab population of Israel is more disadvantaged in human capital than the immigrant population. Furthermore, the Arab population, perceived as part of the Arab world with which Israel is in a constant state of war, faces more discrimination than the new immigrants. This difference in social standing might be reflected in the more consistent pattern of motivations and usage by the Arab population than by the immigrant groups.