Dear CITAMS members and friends, I am pleased to share our 2018 section award results. *William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award * *Winner: W. Russell Neuman, Professor of Media Technology, NYU & Professor (Emeritus), Communication Studies, University of Michigan * *2017-2018 Committee: Jessie Daniels (Chair), Gary T. Marx, Jennifer Earl, Eszter Hargittai * *Best Book Award* *Winner: Christo Sims, University of California, San Diego, Disruptive Fixation: School Reform and the Pitfalls of Techno-Idealism (Princeton, 2017)* *2017-2018 Committee: Deana Rohlinger (Chair), Phaedra Daipha, Mohammed Zayani, Grant Blank* * Best Article Award* *Winner: Christopher A. Bail, Taylor W. Brown, and Marcus Mann. 2017. "Channeling Hearts and Minds: Advocacy Organizations, Cognitive-Emotional Currents, and Public Conversation." American Sociological Review 82(6):1188-1213. * *2017-2018 Committee: Mito Akiyoshi(Chair), Arnout van de Rijt, Sarah Sobieraj* *Best Student Paper Award* *Co-winner: Laura Frizzell, Scott Duxbury, Sadé Lindsay, Ohio State University, Mental Illness, the Media, and the Moral Politics of Mass Violence: The Role of Race in Mass Shootings Coverage* *Co-winner: Ethel Mickey, Northeastern University, Doing Gender, Doing Networks: Exploring Individual Networking Strategies in High-Tech * *2017-2018 Committee: Wenhong Chen (Chair), Arvind Karunakaran, Bryce Hannibal * *Public Sociology Award* *Winner: Professor Jeffrey Goldfarb, The New School for Social Research* *2017-2018 Committee will be: Jeffrey Boase(Chair), Michael Stern, Leslie Jones * *I would like to thank the nominators as well as our section award **committee chairs and members for their **commitment** and service to our section and profession. * *Please join us at our section business meeting to celebrate the award winners and their work: * 2207 - Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Business Meeting*Sun, August 12, 11:30am to 12:10pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Level 100, 103B* https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/asa/asa18/ index.php?cmd=Online+Program+View+Session&selected_session_ id=1345523&PHPSESSID=aeaf9uj3fe1t8tu97p7k5om764 *Cheers,* *Wenhong **文泓* *Wenhong Chen,* PhD Associate Professor of Media Studies and Sociology Department of Radio-TV-Film | Moody College of Communication The University of Texas at Austin Chair, Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section American Sociological Association Office hour signup http://bit.ly/1xpHy1c http://utexas.academia.edu/wenhongchen New book: Networked China <http://www.routledge.com/9781138840027/> 512.417.4952 | wenhong.chen@austin.utexas.edu | @wenhongchen 1 University Station A0800, CMA 5.142 The University of Texas at Austin 2504 Whitis Ave Stop A0800 Austin, TX 78712-1067