[Air-l] A prize book, and a book prize

[Barry Wellman]

Jane Fountain has been honored with an Outstanding Academic Book award for
2002 by Choice, whose highly prestigious award recognizes "the best of the
best in published scholarship." Her pathbreaking study of the global
transformation of governance, Building the Virtual State: Information
Technology and Institutional Change, was published by the Brookings
Institution Press in August 2001. Fountain is Associate Professor of Public
Policy; co-chair of the Information, Technology, and Governance Faculty
Group; and Director of the National Center for Digital Government at the
Kennedy School.

Every year in the January issue, Choice magazine publishes a highly
selective list of Outstanding Academic Titles. This prestigious list
reflects the best in scholarly titles reviewed by Choice.  In making the
award, the editors apply several criteria including excellence in
presentation and scholarship, significance of the contribution to a field,
and distinction as an important?often the first?treatment of a subject.