That being said: The next APSA submission deadline – January 14, 2026 – is just around the corner! Please find the section’s call for proposals here: connect.apsanet.org/apsa2026/202... We hope to see you in Boston!

Thank you all for devoting your time to the APSA ITP community and for contributing to making the next APSA annual meeting in Boston 2026 as lively and successful as the last one!

Want to nominate someone our yourself for an award? The deadline for nominations is April 1, 2026!

Most importantly, watch out for the Best Student Paper Award which will be awarded by Yilin Su, Allison Ko and Camila Mont’Alverne as well as the Best Dissertation Award which will be handed out by Rosalynd Southern, Will Schulz, Shir Raviv and Eddie Yang!

Jan Zilinsky, Thomas Zeitzoff and Rajeshwari Majumdar will be handing out the Best Conference Paper Award. Curd Knüpfer, Michael Bossetta and Manu Singh Burson serve on the Best Public Facing Scholarship Award.

Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Václav Štětka and Benjamin Burnley serve on the committee for the Best Book Award. Lindsay Hoffman, Daniel Muise, Augusto Valeriani and Sabina Mihelj will choose the Best Article Published in our journal, Information Technology and Politics.

We welcome Shelley Boulianne as 2025-2026 Section Chair, Jiang Li as Vice Chair and Cher Elect, Ben Epstein as Section Secretary, Leticia Bode as Treasurer and Katharina Heger as Communications Officer! Furthermore, we would like to announce the award committee members:

First of all, we thank Patricia Rossini and Shelley Boulianne for serving as past Section Chair and Program Chair! Thank you both for organizing such insightful and inspiring ITP panels at APSA these past two years! (And thank you for introducing some first-time attendees to timbits..🍩)