[CITASA] CITASA Awards - Call for Nominations: Deadline March 16

[Keith Hampton]

Just a reminder, the paper, book, and student awards are open to submissions published in 2007 or 2008. Please send your nominations directly to the appropriate committee chair. The deadline is March 16.





Call for Nominations

Section on Communication and Information Technologies

American Sociological Association



DEADLINE: March 16, 2009



Nominations should be sent directly to the Chair of the relevant award committee. Self nominations are welcome.



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.

Committee Co-Chairs: Anabel Quan-Haase (University of Western Ontario) aquan at uwo.ca<mailto:aquan at uwo.ca>, and Barry Wellman (University of Toronto) wellman at chass.utoronto.ca<mailto:wellman at chass.utoronto.ca>



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. Recipients receive $250 in recognition of their work.

                Committee Chair: Michael Macy, mwm14 at cornell.edu<mailto:mwm14 at cornell.edu>



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

Committee Chair: Leslie Regan Shade (Concordia), lshade at alcor.concordia.ca<mailto:lshade at alcor.concordia.ca>, Department of Communication Studies, 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, CJ 3.230, 3rd Floor, Montreal, Quebec, H4B 1R6, Canada



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

                Committee Chair: Hiroshi Ono (Texas A&M University), hono at tamu.edu<mailto:hono at tamu.edu>



CITASA Student Paper/Application Award recognizes a published or unpublished paper/book chapter, or the design or use of a communication or information technology that provides an exceptional contribution to the sociology of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. Recipients receive $250 in recognition of their work.

                Committee Chair: Zeynep Tufekci (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), zeynep at umbc.edu<mailto:zeynep at umbc.edu>



Authorship

Books, chapters, articles, papers and computing applications may have multiple authors. In the case of student-faculty collaborations, the student must be the lead or senior author. Author's need not have a degree in sociology or be in a sociology department to be considered for an award.



Submission Formats

Submissions involving new or existing software should include detailed descriptions of the project. Chapters, articles, papers and computing application project descriptions should be sent as email attachments. Book authors should send three copies of their book. Authors of software applications should also provide online access to their software or send three copies on CD. Submissions must be in English and written within the two calendar years prior to the award presentation. There are no limitations on length.



Call for nominations:

http://citasa.org/awards



Past award recipients:

http://citasa.org/awards/recipients



Keith Hampton

Chair, CITASA

http://citasa.org




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