Nominations for Awards Sought
The ITP Section will present four awards at the next annual meeting. To make a nomination for the Best Book Award, the Best Graduate Student Paper Award, the Best Published Article Award, or the Best Political Science Website or Software Award, please click here.

JITP Proposed to Become Official
The section proposed to APSA that the Journal of Information Technology and Politics become the official journal of the section. In the proposal, the section states, "As a journal focusing on innovations in theory, policy, and teaching, JITP is dedicated not only to publishing leading research, but also to strengthening and enhancing the peer review process… JITP also has a highly regarded and slightly innovative Replication Policy that is aligned with the leading research journals in the field… We cannot help but anticipate explosive growth in the scholarship of ITP, and JITP has the inside track to be the journal of record in the subfield and across other subfields where the impact of IT is ubiquitous."

Section Newsletter Available
The fall 2009 ITP section newsletter is now available. To see it, click here. Please print, copy, post, and share as you see fit. All the details about the upcoming APSA Meeting can be found inside.

Award Winners Announced
The Information Technology and Politics Section is pleased to announce the winners of our awards for 2009.

• The ITP Section Best Instructional Software Award recognizes work in software by a member of APSA, which best contributes to the furtherance of teaching in the field.
  • Recipient: Micah Altman and Michael P. McDonald, BARD: Better Automated Redistricting
• The Best Paper Award recognizes the best scholarly article published about Information Technology and Politics during 2008.
  • Winners: Matthew A. Baum and Tim Groeling, "New Media and the Polarization of American Political Discourse," Political Communications, 25 (October 2008), pp. 345-365.

Renew Your Membership Now!
Please do not neglect to renew your membership in the ITP section. Don't forget that this year you will receive a free subscription to the Journal of Information Technology and Politics.

Call for Manuscripts, JITP
The Journal of Information Technology & Politics (www.jitp.net) has adopted an online submission and review system (click here). The Journal has 470 reviewers in its database from a range of disciplines and countries. The goal is to get you 3-5 reviews of your manuscript within 60-90 days of submission. Please consider making JITP an outlet for your best ITP-style work.

Submission Types
JITP accepts a variety of manuscripts. Please review the descriptions below and identify the submission type best suited to your intended submission.

• Research Paper (20-40 pages)
  Research papers are theoretically driven, focusing on an intersection of politics and IT and reporting substantial findings.
• Policy Viewpoints (10-25 pages)
  Policy Viewpoints explore competing perspectives in an ITP policy debate that are informed by academic research.
• Teaching Innovation (10-25 pages)
  Teaching Innovation articles explore creative uses of information technology tools to improve student learning in political science and other related fields. Tutorials and papers that evaluate the effectiveness of technology tools improving learning both are welcome.
• Workbench Note (10-25 pages)
  Workbench Notes present a brief introduction and evaluation of one or more novel ITP tools developed to gain analytical leverage over political processes, or to advance political science instruction.
• Review Essay (10-25 pages)
  An original theoretically guided essay linking three or more related recent books to an important ITP subject area.
• Book Reviews (3-6 pages)
  A review of a book, or other book-length document, such as a government or foundation report.

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