2016 CITASA Student Paper Award Recognizes 1) a published or unpublished article/paper/book chapter contributing to sociology of communication, media, and/or information technology OR 2) the design or use of a communication, media or information technology that provides an exceptional contribution to the sociology of communications, media, and/or information technology. Regarding 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. The award is open to students in other disciplines than sociology; authors need not have a degree in sociology or be in a sociology department to be considered for an award but award nominees must be current CITASA to be considered for this award. Graduate students can request a free membership to CITASA as long as they are current members of ASA. Submissions must be in English and written within the two calendar years prior to the award deadline for nominations. There are no limitations on length. Award winners will be invited to serve on future award committees. All materials for this award must be received by March 1, 2015. Send by email to all three committee members a nomination letter and the paper in PDF or word: Dr. Andrea Tapia (chair) atapia@ist.psu.edu Ms. Christine Larson (2015 student paper winner) cmlarson@stanford.edu Dr. Mary Chayko the council member serving in their first year of their term who has the first alphabetical last name Special Members Dr. Casey Brienza (Sociology and CCI, City University London Email: casey.brienza.1@city.ac.uk) Dr. David Toews Email: dtoews@davidtoews.org Dr. Anabel Quan-Haase Email: aquan@uwo.ca