Dear friends and colleagues, The *C*ommunication, *I*nformation *T*echnologies, and *M*edia *S*ociology section of the *A*merican *S*ociological *A*ssociation <http://www.asanet.org/> (CITAMS) called for nominations for the 2017 *CITAMS Book Award *in spring 2017. CITAMS Book Award recognizes an outstanding book related to the sociology of communication, media, and/or information technology. Submissions must be in English and published within the two calendar years prior to the award presentation. There are no limitations on length. Single author, multiple author, and edited books are eligible. It was my great pleasure and honor to serve on the 2017 CITAMS Book Award results. The 2017 committee had three members: Wenhong Chen (chair, UT Austin), Heather Haveman (UC Berkeley), and Janet Vertesi (Princeton). The committee received a total of 20 nominated books. Each committee member reviewed the books and voted independently. This is not an easy decision as the 20 nominated books collectively represent the richness, diversity, and extremely high quality scholarship of sociological work on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology. On behalf of the committee and the section, I would like to thank the book authors as well as the nominators. Based on votes and deliberation, the committee decided to have two co-winners: Daipha, Phaedra. (2015). *Masters of Uncertainty: Weather Forecasters and the Quest for Ground Truth*. University of Chicago Press. Zayani, Mohamed. (2015). *Networked Publics & Digital Contention. *Oxford University Press. Please find below our blurbs for the two co-winners, prepared by Heather Haveman, Janet Vertesi, and me. We strongly recommend you to read the books! Daipha, Phaedra. (2015). *Masters of Uncertainty: Weather Forecasters and the Quest for Ground Truth*. University of Chicago Press. Dr. Daipha carries out rich ethnographic work on a group of hard-to-reach social actors and how they make decisions to forecast future. The book is engagingly written and fascinating. Advancing a sociological perspective of decision making on weather forecasting, Daipha further tests the theory in the fields of finance and medicine. The book going to be very important to the work of many members of CITAMS and scholars working in the field of sociology of science and technology. Zayani, Mohamed. (2015). *Networked Publics & Digital Contention. *Oxford University Press. This is a serious analysis of the role media played in the Tunisian spring revolution. Far from a simple mechanical analysis of media effects, Dr. Zayani provides a subtle evolutionary analysis of how people used media, how they understood media, and how they expressed themselves through media. Well situated in historical context, so non-MENA specialists will get it. Theoretically, it is well balanced between social-movement theories and media scholarship. The book award committee found it to be a nuanced and historically grounded account of Tunisia's web and political contexts. Readers can learn more from this book - both empirically and theoretically - than from the others in the mix. This book can be assigned to students as the right way to write about the so-called revolutionary and Twitter-fueled Arab Spring. And please nominate or self-nominate books in Spring 2018! Cheers, Wenhong 文泓 Wenhong Chen Associate Professor of Media Studies and Sociology Chair, Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section, ASA University of Texas at Austin T: 512-471-4952 <(512)%20471-4952> F: 512-471-4077 <(512)%20471-4077> wenhong.chen@austin.utexas.edu http://utexas.academia.edu/wenhongchen New edited book: *Networked China* http://www.routledge.com/9781138840027/ <http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138840027/> Office hour signup http://bit.ly/1xpHy1c 1 University Station A0800, CMA 5.142 University of Texas at Austin 2504 Whitis Ave Stop A0800 Austin, TX 78712-1067