[Air-L] Call for Nominations: CITASA Awards

[Keith Hampton]

I forgot an important detail: book and paper nominations must be for work
published within the last two calendar years.

-Keith
 

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From: Keith Hampton [mailto:khampton at asc.upenn.edu] 
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Subject: Call for Nominations: CITASA Awards

CITASA AWARDS CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Deadline: March 15, 2008

The Communication and Information Technologies Section presents five awards
each year at the annual meeting of the American
Sociological Association:

1. CITASA William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award recognizes a sustained
body of research that has provided an outstanding contribution to the
advancement of knowledge in the area of sociology of communications or the
sociology of information technology.

2. CITASA Award for Public Sociology recognizes a specific achievement in
teaching, the development or the use of a communication or information
technology, or the dissemination of knowledge that advances public
understanding or engagement with the sociology of communications or the
sociology of information technology.

3. CITASA Book Award recognizes an outstanding book related to the sociology
communications or the sociology of information technology.

4. CITASA Paper Award recognizes an outstanding published paper or book
chapter related to the sociology of communications or the sociology of
information technology.

5. CITASA Student Paper/Application Award recognizes a published or
unpublished paper/book chapter, or the design or use of a communication or
information technology that provides an exceptional contribution to the
sociology of communications or the sociology of information technology. The
award is open to students in other disciplines than sociology.  Students do
not need to be members of ASA or CITASA. 

More information, including past recipients can be found at 
http://citasa.org/awards

Nominations and materials should be submitted to the CITASA Awards Chairs by
the indicated deadlines.  Self nominations are welcome.

AWARD CHAIRS:
CITASA William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award
  Barry Wellman, University of Toronto (wellman at chass.utoronto.ca)

CITASA Public Sociology Award
  Marc Smith, Microsoft Research (masmith at microsoft.com)

CITASA Outstanding Book Award
  Gustavo Mesch, University of Haifa (gustavo at soc.haifa.ac.il)

CITASA Paper Award
  Shanyang Zhao, Temple University (bzhao001 at temple.edu)

CITASA Student Paper Award
  Fred Turner, Stanford University (fturner at stanford.edu)