A call has been issued for particpants for the 2013 Digital Societies and Social Technologies (DSST) Summer Institute. To address the challenges emerging from social, technical and cultural intersection of new technologies a trans-disciplinary community of scholars has come together from fields as wide ranging as CSCW, HCI, social computing, organization studies, information visualization, social informatics, sociology, information systems, medical informatics, computer science, ICT for development, education, learning science, journalism, and political science.