Section Newsletter Available
The spring 2009 ITP section newsletter is now available. To see it, click here. Please print, copy, post, and share as you see fit.

Award Winners Announced
The Information Technology and Politics Section is pleased to announce the winners of our awards for 2008. Click on "Awards" at left for links to the websites and full citations for the articles.

• The ITP Section Best Research Software Award recognizes work in software, other than statistical software, by a member of APSA, which best contributes to the furtherance of research in the field.
  • Recipient: Stuart Shulman, University of Massachusetts Amherst "The Coding Analysis Toolkit"
• The ITP Section Best Instructional Political Science Website Award recognizes the Website with the best instructional value for teaching political science.
  • Recipient: Gary King, Harvard University, Dataverse Network Project.
• The Lynne Rienner Publishers Best Paper Award recognizes the best scholarly article published about Information Technology and Politics.
  • Winners: Dhavan V. Shah, Jaeho Cho, Seungahn Nah, Melissa R. Gotlieb, Hyunseo Hwang, Nam-Jim Lee, Rosanne M. Scholl, and Douglas M. McLeod "Campaign Ads, Online Messaging, and Participation: Extending the Communication Mediation Model."
  • Honorable Mention: R. Charli Carpenter, "Studying Issue (Non)-Adoption in Transnational Advocacy Networks."

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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