[Air-L] Call for nominations for The International Journal of Press/Politics Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award 2023

[Cristian Vaccari]

Dear colleagues,

I am writing to share the call for nominations for The International
Journal of Press/Politics Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award 2023.
The award honors internationally oriented books published within the
last ten years that advance our theoretical and empirical
understanding of the linkages between news media and politics in a
globalized world in a significant way.

You can find the call for nominations at the bottom of this email and
on the journal website at
https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/HIJ/2023%20IJPP%20book%20award%20announcement-1670345784.pdf.

I would be very grateful if you could consider nominating books
(self-nominations are also accepted) and share this call for
nominations with anyone you think may be interested in it. The
deadline is March 17, 2023.

Call for Nominations
The International Journal of Press/Politics Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best
Book Award 2023
Deadline: 17 March 2023

Nominations are invited for the annual International Journal of
Press/PoliticsHazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award, to be sent to
committee members no later than March 17, 2023.

Rationale
The International Journal of Press/Politics Hazel Gaudet-Erskine 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 the following
criteria: the extent to which the book contributes to internationally
relevant knowledge; the significance of the problems addressed; the
strength of the evidence the book relies on; conceptual innovation,
clarity of writing; and the book’s ability to link journalism studies,
political communication research, and other relevant fields of
intellectual and scholarly inquiry.

Eligibility
Books written in English and 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.

Award committee
The award committee consists of Cristian Vaccari (Editor-in-Chief of
the International Journal of Press/Politics), Frank Esser (chair of
the Political Communication Division of ICA), and Annika Sehl (chair
of the Journalism Studies Division of ICA).

Nominations
Nominations including a rationale of no more than 350 words should be
emailed to Cristian Vaccari (c.vaccari at lboro.ac.uk by March 17, 2023.
Self-nominations are accepted.

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 if applicable.

Arrangements should be made with the publishers of nominated books for
one hard copy or e-book (i.e., the full book in PDF form) to be sent
by March 17 to each of the three committee members at the following
addresses:
• Cristian Vaccari, School of Social Sciences and Humanities,
Brockington Building U3.19, Loughborough University, Epinal Way,
Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, United Kingdom. Email:
c.vaccari at lboro.ac.uk.
• Frank Esser, Department of Communication and Media Research,
University of Zurich, Andreas St 15, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland. Email:
f.esser at ikmz.uzh.ch
• Annika Sehl, Department of Journalism, Catholic University of
Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Ostenstraße 25, 85072 Eichstätt, Germany. Email:
annika.sehl at ku.de

Presentation
The award will be presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the
International Communication Association and will be announced on the
IJPP website.

Past winners of the award
2022: Nikki Usher, News for the Rich, White, and Blue: How Place and
Power Distort American Journalism (Columbia University Press 2021).

2021: Allissa V. Richardson, Bearing Witness While Black: African
Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism (Oxford
University Press 2020).

2020: Thomas Hanitzsch, Folker Hanusch, Jyotika Ramaprasad, and Arnold
S. de Beer (Editors), Worlds of Journalism: Journalistic Cultures
Around the Globe (Columbia University Press, 2019).

2019: Maria Repnikova, Media Politics in China: Improvising Power
Under Authoritarianism (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

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).

Cristian Vaccari
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Professor of Political Communication, Loughborough University
Director, Centre for Research in Communication and Culture
Editor-in-Chief, The International Journal of Press/Politics
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New book: Outside the Bubble: Social Media and Political Participation
in Western Democracies (with Augusto Valeriani, OUP 2021)
New project: Everyday Sharing of Misinformation on Private Social
Media (with Andrew Chadwick)
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Personal website: https://cristianvaccari.com/
Google Scholar profile
Twitter: @prof_vaccari
Preferred pronouns: he/him/his