Hi Everyone, We are looking forward to receiving your nominations for the 2015 CITASA Awards. Please nominate your own work or colleagues' work for the awards sponsored by our section. See below for information and contact emails. Best wishes, Laura *All CITASA Award Nominees must be members of ASA (unless they are retired).* *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 communication, media, and/or information technology. Award winners will be invited to serve on future award committees. Normally, award nominees will have been CITASA members at some point in their careers to be considered for this award *All materials for this award must be received by March 1, 2015. Send by email to:* Jennifer Earl: jenniferearl@email.arizona.edu William Dutton: wdutton@msu.edu Jenny L Davis: davis5jl@jmu.edu *CITASA Paper Award* Recognizes an outstanding published paper or book chapter 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 nomination deadline. There are no limitations on length. Award winners will be invited to serve on future award committees. Award nominees must be current CITASA members (unless retired) to be considered for this award. *All materials for this award must be received by March 1, 2015. Send by email to:* Laura Robinson: laura@laurarobinson.org Celeste Campos-Castillo: camposca@uwm.edu Barry Wellman: wellman@chass.utoronto.ca *CITASA Student Paper Award* Recognizes 1) a published or unpublished article/paper/book chapter contributing to sociology of communication, media, and/or information technology OR 2) the design or use of a communication, media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:* Katrina Kimport: katrina.kimport@ucsf.edu Angèle Christin: christa@newschool.edu Anabel Quan Haase: aquan@uwo.ca *CITASA Book Award* CITASA 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. *One copy of the book must be sent to EACH of the three committee members.* Award winners will be invited to serve on future award committees. Award nominees must be current CITASA members to be considered for this award (unless they are retired). *All materials for this award must be received by March 1, 2015. Send by mail to:* Andrea Tapia: atapia@ist.psu.edu Lee Rainie: lrainie@pewinternet.org Christopher Bail: christopherandrewbail@gmail.com *CITASA Public Sociology Award* CITASA Award for Public Sociology recognizes a specific achievement in teaching, the development or the use of a communication, media, or information technology, or the dissemination of knowledge that advances public understanding or engagement with the sociology of communication, media, and/or information technology. Award winners will be invited to serve on future award committees. Normally, award nominees will have been CITASA members at some point in their careers.to be considered for this award *All materials for this award must be received by March 1, 2015. Send by email to:* Shelia Cotton: cotten@msu.edu Shelley Boulianne: bouliannes@macewan.ca Erin Evans: emevans@uci.edu