• The New Information and Communication Technologies: A Chance for Leapfrogging Development? Organizers: Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu, Ateneo de Manila U, Philippines and Markus Schulz
• The $100 Laptop: Creating a World of Addressable Consumers or Cosmopolitan Citizens? Organizers: Jaime Jiménez, UNAM, Mexico; Hermilio Santos, PUCRS, Brazil; and Markus Schulz
• Intellectual Copyright, Digital Inequality, and Global Hegemony. Organizers:   Jaime Jiménez, UNAM, Mexico; Hermilio Santos, PUCRS, Brazil; and Markus Schulz
• The Internet: From Utopia to Nightmare? Organizers: Jaime Jiménez, UNAM, Mexico; Hermilio Santos, PUCRS, Brazil; and Markus Schulz
• Social Movements and New Media. Organizer: Markus Schulz
• Las Nuevas Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación en el Mundo Latino: Perspectivas Sociológicas desde Europa y América Latina (This is a Spanish-language session on The New Information and Communication Technologies in the Latin World: Sociological Perspectives from Europe and Latin America). Organizers: Laura Cruz-Castro, IESAM, Spain; Hermilio Santos, PUCRS, Brazil; and Markus Schulz

Deadlines and Procedures

If you wish to present a paper, please email your proposal with a title and a brief description of the proposed paper (150 to 250 words) to the session organizer(s) by November 30, 2007. Be sure to include in your proposal your name and full contact information. Paper proposals that do not fit to the topic of any of the planned sessions may be submitted to the RC07 Program Coordinator for integration in additional sessions or alternative arrangements.

Session proposals are welcome too. They should include a title, a brief description of the topic, chair's name and contact information, and a list of four to six speakers and a discussant. Session proposals may be in any of the ISA's official languages, English, Spanish, or French.

Applications for limited financial support should be emailed directly by the applicant to the ISA Secretariat before January 31, 2008.

Notifications of papers accepted for presentation and further instructions will be send to participants by the end of January 2008. It is anticipated that online registration opens in early 2008. May 31, 2008 is the anticipated deadline for pre-registration and submission of accepted abstracts to Cambridge Sociological Abstracts for inclusion in the congress catalog.