academic writing, the editing process, and techniques for talking to Friday, August 15 journalists who contact you about your work. Participants will learn how to: • Recognize a news peg on which to hang an Op-Ed or article • Conferences Pitch an Op-Ed or article to a publication • Work within the give-and- Department Chairs Conference. Linking a Liberal take of a publication’s editing process • Demystify complex concepts for a general audience • Work with reporters seeking information about Learning Centered Sociology Major to Successful their research • Pre-session work: Before the workshop meets, Employment Outcomes: Vision, Mission, and participants will be asked to submit a brief description of their research Implementation (8:00am-5:15pm; ticket required for and to read a few published Op-Eds or essays written by academics admission) about their research. (Fee: None/Free of Charge; Participants must Directors of Graduate Study Conference. Preparing preregister for the Annual Meeting in order to register for this event.) Graduate Students for Multiple Career Outcomes: 3. Just Publics@ASA MediaCamp Pre-conference Vision, Mission and Implementation (1:00-5:45pm; Workshop 03. Being Interviewed On Camera ticket required for admission) Session Organizer: Jessie Daniels, City University of New York-Hunter College Other Groups Leader: C.J. Pascoe, University of Oregon Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD) Council Meeting (8:00am- Do you want to share your research and knowledge with the widest 4:30pm) possible audience? This hands-on workshop will prepare you to share Association of Black Sociologists (8:00am-6:30pm) your academic research with the public through the media. You will Gender, Science and Organizations Writing Workshop learn what kinds of stories appeal to journalists, how to get your stories to the attention of editors, how to best formulate your ideas in print and (8:00am-5:00pm; pre-registration required) how to be interviewed on camera. Participants will meet for a hands-on Korean Sociologists in America Miniconference (2:00- run through of being interviewed. Participants will also learn the basics 6:00pm) of the television interview, including: • How to pitch your story ideas to North American Chinese Sociologists Association broadcast news editors • How to contextualize your ideas within the parameters of broadcast news • How to field a wide variety of questions (8:30am-6:30pm) • How to act and react in front of the camera; and how to "own" your Section on Teaching and Learning Pre-conference interview. Participants will learn about the interview experience, strong Workshop on Teaching: Civility in the Classroom and weak answers, ideal body stance, and other key elements for an (8:00am-5:00pm) outstanding interview on camera. While not required, as an additional option, three-to-four participants will also have the opportunity to be Self Society Colloquium (8:00am-5:00pm) interviewed on camera and get critical feedback from the instructor(s). Space is limited to 15 participants. (Fee: None/Free of Charge; Meetings Participants must preregister for the Annual Meeting in order to register Orientation for 1st Year Minority Fellowship Program for this event.) (8:30am-4:30pm) Fellows Honors Program Orientation (4:00-6:00pm) 10:00 am Sessions 4. Course. Using Sensors in Sociological Research- 9:00 am Sessions CANCELLED 1. Just Publics@ASA MediaCamp Pre-conference Workshop 01. Blogging: Social Media Practicum 12:30 pm Sessions Session Organizer: Jessie Daniels, City University of 5. Just Publics@ASA MediaCamp Pre-conference New York-Hunter College Workshop 04. Twitter for Academics Leader: Nathan Scott Palmer, Georgia Southern Session Organizer and Leader: Jessie Daniels, City University University of New York-Hunter College This workshop takes academic attendees through the basic steps In this hands-on workshop, we’ll work with Twitter, taking the steps of establishing a blog — an online space to highlight their research and necessary to establish your academic brand presence on this social accomplishments. We’ll consider the merits of various free plug-and- media platform. We’ll explore the following skills: • Selecting an play blogging platforms like WordPress.com and Tumblr. While each appropriate user ID or “handle” • Creating a useful Twitter profile • has its merits, we’ll delve into WordPress.com during this session, Writing style when limited to 140 characters • Following other Twitter including the following skills: • Creating a WordPress.com account • personalities • Retweeting tweets and direct messaging • Integrating Writing a post, title and excerpt for each entry • Uploading and/or your Twitter presence into your WordPress.com blog *BYOD = Bring embedding media (photographs and PDFs) • Hyperlinking to your work Your Own Device (Fee: None/Free of Charge; Participants must • Changing design themes • Updating or editing posts (Fee: None/Free preregister for the Annual Meeting in order to register for this event.) of Charge; Participants must preregister for the Annual Meeting in order to register for this event.) 6. Just Publics@ASA MediaCamp Pre-conference 2. Just Publics@ASA MediaCamp Pre-conference Workshop 05. Podcasting 101 Workshop 02. Op-Ed Pieces and Pitches Session Organizer: Jessie Daniels, City University of Session Organizer: Jessie Daniels, City University of New York-Hunter College New York-Hunter College Leader: Heidi Knoblauch, Yale University This workshop will show participants how to make a podcast and Leader: Tressie Cottom, Emory University publish it to iTunes. In this workshop, participants will learn how to use This workshop will focus on reaching the public via op-eds, essays, their smart phones to record high quality audio in the field and then edit and interviews with reporters. We’ll cover the idea of news pegs, the art that audio into a polished podcast using GarageBand. (Fee: None/Free of pitching a piece to editors, the difference between journalistic and of Charge; Participants must preregister for the Annual Meeting in order relationships in qualitative data. (Fee: $70.00; Participants must to register for this event.) preregister for the Annual Meeting in order to register for this event.) 7. Just Publics@ASA MediaCamp Pre-conference 3:30 pm Sessions Workshop 06. Being Interviewed on Camera Session Organizer: Jessie Daniels, City University of 10. Just Publics@ASA MediaCamp Pre-conference New York-Hunter College Workshop 07. Hands-On Blogging Skills Camp Leader: Pepper J. Schwartz, University of Washington Session Organizer: Jessie Daniels, City University of Participants will meet for a hands-on run through of being New York-Hunter College interviewed. Participants will also learn about the interview experience, Leader: Nathan Scott Palmer, Georgia Southern strong and weak answers, ideal body stance, and other key elements University for an outstanding interview on camera. While not required, as an You learned how to create your own blog, now spend some time additional option, three-to-four participants will also have the writing some posts and designing your site. *BYOD = Bring Your Own opportunity to be interviewed on camera and get critical feedback from Device (Fee: None/Free of Charge; Participants must preregister for the instructor(s). Space is limited to 15 participants. (Fee: None/Free of the Annual Meeting in order to register for this event.) Charge; Participants must preregister for the Annual Meeting in order to register for this event.) 11. Just Publics@ASA MediaCamp Pre-conference 1:30 pm Sessions Workshop 08. Hands-On Podcasting Skills Camp 8. Course. What Do I Do When My Respondent Session Organizer: Jessie Daniels, City University of Facebooks? Making Sense of Social Media Use in New York-Hunter College Ethnographic Research Leader: Heidi Knoblauch, Yale University You learned how to record and edit audio, now spend some time (1:30-5:30pm) creating your first podcast episode. *BYOD = Bring Your Own Device Session Organizer and Leader: C.J. Pascoe, University (Fee: None/Free of Charge; Participants must preregister for the of Oregon Annual Meeting in order to register for this event.) The ethnographic tradition in sociology has not kept pace with an increasingly mediated social environment The course will address what 12. Just Publics@ASA MediaCamp Pre-conference it means to do participant observation now that digital technologies and Workshop 09. Hands-On Twitter Skills Camp social media are staples in the lives of many research respondents. Session Organizer and Leader: Jessie Daniels, City The online world may feel less “virtual” to many of them (and us) and more like a “real” part of their (and our) social environments. The University of New York-Hunter College course will address multiple ways to incorporate this emerging digital Get advanced knowledge of Twitter by crafting tweets. Practice reality as well as the sociability of these digital practices into building followers and using Twitter more effectively in your research, ethnographic research. The course is designed for ethnographers who scholarship and advocacy. *BYOD = Bring Your Own Device. (Fee: are not interested in researching new media per se (though they may None/Free of Charge; Participants must preregister for the Annual find it useful as well) but are looking for ways to account for the whole Meeting in order to register for this event.) of their participants’ lived experiences, which, more likely than not at this moment in history, involves a mediated component. This workshop 4:30 pm