[Air-L] 2019 Nancy Baym Book Award Winners

[Radhika G]

This book is amazing!!!



On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 7:32 AM Nancy Baym via Air-L <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

>     It’s a great honor to announce that AoIR’s book award committee has
> chosen The Digital Street by Jeffrey Lane (Oxford University Press) for
> this year’s Nancy Baym Book Award.
>
>     We are also recognizing Robert Gehl’s Weaving the Dark Web: Legitimacy
> on Freenet, Tor, and I2P (MIT Press) with an Honorable Mention.
>
> The Digital Street is a compelling ethnography of the interconnecting
> codes of disadvantaged girls and boys on the streets of Harlem and digital
> media. He shows the overlaps, disconnects, and, perhaps most importantly,
> the opportunities social media may offer for intervening in youth violence.
> Its combination of urban ethnography with the digital provides a model both
> for ethnographers unused to considering the digital, and for digital
> ethnographers less versed in urban approaches. Read more about it here:
> https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-digital-street-9780199381272?cc=us&lang=en&
>
>     Weaving the Dark Web is a methodologically and theoretically rich
> analysis that provides insights of use to anyone concerned with alternative
> histories or futures of the internet. Learn more here:
> https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/weaving-dark-web
>
>     Every year it is challenging to pick a winner, but never more so than
> this year. The depth and breadth of work coming from our community is
> extraordinary. I’m grateful for all the submissions.
>
>     I would also like to thank the awards committee - Jeff Hemsley,
> Nicholas John, and Katrin Tiidenberg, for their work reviewing this year’s
> nominations, and our association coordinator Michelle for keeping
> everything organized and tracking down the many loose ends on our behalf.
>
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Radhika Gajjala
Managing Editor: Fembot Collective
Co-editor of Ada: Journal of Gender and New Media (adanewmedia.org)

Professor,
School of Media and Communication
and
American Culture Studies Program

Bowling Green State University,
Bowling Green Ohio
http://www.radhikagajjala.org