[Air-L] Call for Nominations: International Journal of Press/Politics Best Book Award

[Cristian Vaccari]

*Call for Nominations: International Journal of Press/Politics Best Book
Award*

Nominations are invited for the annual *International Journal of
Press/Politics* Best Book Award, to be sent to IJPP Editor-in-Chief
Cristian Vaccari by email no later than *March 1*.

*Rationale*

*The International Journal of Press/Politics* Best Book Award honors
internationally-oriented books that advance our theoretical and empirical
understanding of the linkages between news media and politics in a
globalized world in a significant way. It is given annually by the
*International
Journal of Press/Politics* and sponsored by Sage Publications.

The award committee will judge each nominated book on several criteria,
including the extent to which the book goes beyond analyzing a single case
country to present a broader and internationally-oriented argument, the
significance of the problems addressed, the strength of the evidence the
book relies on, conceptual innovation, the clarity of writing, and the
book’s ability to link journalism studies, political communication
research, and other relevant intellectual fields.

*Eligibility*

Books published within the last ten years will be considered. Monographs as
well as edited volumes of exceptional quality and coherence will be
considered for the award. Books by current members of the award committee
are ineligible and committee members will recuse themselves from discussion
of books by members of their own department, works published in series that
they edit, and similar circumstances.

*Nominations*

Nominations including a rationale of no more than 350 words should be
emailed by *March 1* to Cristian Vaccari at c.vaccari at lboro.ac.uk.

The nomination must specify why the book should receive the award by
outlining the importance of the book to the study of media and politics and
by identifying its international contribution and relevance. Please include
links to or copies of relevant reviews in scholarly journals.

Arrangements should be made with the publishers of nominated books for *three
hard copies* to be sent by March 1 to Cristian Vaccari, School of Social
Sciences, Brockington Building U.3.19, Loughborough University, Epinal Way,
Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, United Kingdom.

*Award committee*

The award committee consists of* Cristian Vaccari* (the editor of the*
International
Journal of Press/Politics*), *Kimberly Gross* (chair of the Political
Communication Division of ICA), and *Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt* (chair of
the Journalism Studies Division of ICA).

*Presentation*

The award will be presented at the 2019 ICA Annual Meeting and will be
announced on the IJPP website. The awarded book will also receive
recognition in issue 4/2019 of the journal.

*Past winners of the award*

2018: Erik Albæk, Arjen van Dalen, Nael Jebril, and Claes H. de
Vreese, *Political
Journalism in Comparative Perspective* (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
2017: Katrin Voltmer, *The Media in Transitional Democracies* (Polity
Press, 2013).
2016: Andrew Chadwick, *The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power* (Oxford
University Press, 1st edition 2013).
2015: Rodney Benson, *Shaping Immigration News* (Cambridge University
Press, 2014).



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Cristian Vaccari
Reader in Political Communication, Loughborough University
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Associate Professor in Political Science, University of Bologna
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(on
leave)
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