Newsletter

The SSIT newsletter hits member inboxes around the end of each month.

Please contact the SSIT Newsletter Editor-in-Chief, Shannon Lodoen (lodoens@erau.edu), if you have a news item, SSIT-related update, volunteer opportunity, call for papers, award notice, or “Feature Article” idea for a future issue.

Submissions are due by the first week of the month.

Current Newsletter

Click here to access the May 2025 newsletter. From that issue:

Greetings SSIT Members,

Believe it or not, you have been receiving SSIT newsletters and their accompanying “Messages from the Editor” from me for eight and a half years. Back in December of 2016, SSIT VP Publications John Impagliazzo had convinced me to take on the Newsletter Editor-in-Chief role, and I didn’t quite know what I was in for. We had decided to shift from SSIT’s previous quarterly publication to a monthly schedule, in hopes of keeping the membership more regularly updated. I knew that the goal was to increase engagement and enhance visibility for SSIT activities. I hoped that there would be a sufficient quantity of content to merit the monthly distribution. I set to work figuring out Mailchimp… and I sent out my very first SSIT Newsletter.

Here we are, eight and a half years later, and quite a lot has changed! The monthly SSIT Newsletter has (at least I hope) become an anticipated and appreciated fixture in your regularly scheduled IEEE reading routine. Our wonderful partnership with the IEEE Technical Activities office now ensures smooth production and distribution for the publication (thanks Beverly!). Our SSIT Publications roster now includes an Associate Newsletter Editor position, which has enabled us to expand and enrich our coverage of areas including SSIT Standards Committee work and conference-related activities (thanks Aleks and Shannon!). Our sections are now so full that we need a “Table of Contents” to help readers with navigation… and I am now sending out my final SSIT Newsletter.

It has been a real pleasure and privilege to get to know the SSIT community through my role as the Newsletter EiC, where I have gained an appreciation for the dedicated volunteer work that our society members perform to encourage discussion about, awareness of, and careful responses to the “social implications of technology” in today’s world. I hope that this Newsletter has helped advance these goals over the past eight and a half years, and I look forward to seeing it take new shape under its incoming leadership team.

I am leaving you all in very capable hands: stepping into the EiC role in June is Dr. Shannon Lodoen (our previous Associate Editor, who completed her PhD last year and is now on faculty at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University–more on Shannon in the “Announcements” section below); and the wonderful Aleks Franiczek will be continuing on as Associate Editor through the transition.

As always, we invite content submissions for future newsletters via email to halove@uwaterloo.ca. The deadline for inclusion in the next newsletter is 9 June.

Best wishes to all,

Heather Love (SSIT Newsletter EiC)

Aleksander Franiczek (SSIT Newsletter Associate Editor)

Past Newsletters

To read past issues of the SSIT Newsletter, visit the Newsletter Archive page.

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