On behalf of the CITASA Award Committee, I am pleased to announce the recipients of this year's CIATSA awards. Thank you to all of the committee members for their time and very hard work. The committee received a record number of nominations. Congratulations to the recipients. Please join us at the CIATSA Business Meeting on Aug 8 from 9:30-10:10am at the Parc 55 Hotel where the recipients will be presented with their awards. A description of the awards and list of past recipients can be found on the CITASA website: http://citasa.org/awards 2009 CITASA Student Paper Award Daniel A. Menchik and Xiaoli Tian (University of Chicago) Putting Social Context into Text: The Semiotics of E-mail Interaction. American Journal of Sociology 114(2): 332-370. (2008). Committee members: Zeynep Tufekci (Chair), Lori Kendall, and Anabel Quan-Haase 2009 CITASA Award for Public Sociology Peter Kollock (University of California at Los Angeles) Committee members: Michael Macy (Chair), Marc Smith, Keith Hampton 2009 CITASA Paper Award Eszter Hargitta, Jason Gallo, and Matthew Kane (Northwestern University) Cross-ideological discussions among conservative and liberal bloggers. Public Choice 134: 67-86. (2008). Honorable mention: Lori Kendall (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) How do issues of gender and sexuality influence the structures and process of qualitative internet research? pp. 99-118. In Internet Inquiry: Conversations about method, Annette Markham and Nancy Baym (eds). Los Angeles: Sage (2008). Committee members: Hiroshi Ono (Chair), Rich Ling, and Bernie Hogan 2009 CITASA Book Award Tarleton Gillespie (Cornell University) Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture. (MIT Press, 2007). Committee members: Leslie Shade (Chair), Marc Smith, and Alison Powell 2009 CITASA William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award Elihu Katz (University of Pennsylvania) Committee members: Anabel Quan-Haase (Co-Chair), Barry Wellman (Co-Chair), and Keith Hampton Keith Hampton CITASA, Chair ---------------------------------------- Keith N. Hampton Assistant Professor Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania 3620 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 www.mysocialnetwork.net Twitter: keithnhampton