Dear CITASA members, I am pleased to announce the CITASA section award winners for this year. Please join me in congratulating the winners and thanking the committee members for serving in such important roles for our section! 2012 ASA CITASA Award Committees CITASA Book Award CITASA Book Award recognizes an outstanding book related to the sociology of communications or the sociology of 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. Authors do not need to be members of ASA or CITASA. Chair: Lori Kendall, loriken@illinois.edu<mailto:loriken@illinois.edu> Members: Hiroshi Ono, hono@tamu.edu<mailto:hono@tamu.edu>; Laura Robinson, laura@laurarobinson.org<mailto:laura@laurarobinson.org> CITASA Book Award: Leah Lievrouw's "Alternative and Activist New Media" (Polity, 2011). Tracing some of the fundamental shifts taking place in activism, Lievrouw offers a fresh take on the use of different forms of new media in online activism. Grounding the study in a larger historical trajectory, she weaves culture jamming, hacking, participatory journalism, and media mobilization into a tapestry of findings. The book closes with a discussion of challenges to expert opinion that reveal how new media is moving us from common knowledge to a knowledge of the commons. CITASA Paper Award Recognizes an outstanding published paper or book chapter related to the sociology of communications or the sociology of 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. Authors do not need to be members of ASA or CITASA. Chair: Mike Stern, sternm@cofc.edu<mailto:sternm@cofc.edu> Members: Andrea Baker, bakera@ohio.edu<mailto:bakera@ohio.edu>; Tim Hale, timhale@uab.edu<mailto:timhale@uab.edu> CITASA Paper Award: Robert Ackland and Mathieu O'Neil. 2011. "Online collective identity: The case of the environmental movement." Social Networks, 33(3): 177-190. Honorable Mention: Kevin Lewis, Marco Gonzalez, and Jason Kaufman. 2011. "Social selection and peer influence in an online social network." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Honorable Mention: Aaron Shaw, "Centralized and decentralized gate keeping in an open online collective." 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 communications or the sociology of information technology. Chair: Rebecca Adams, r_adams@uncg.edu<mailto:r_adams@uncg.edu> Members: Jim Witte, jwitte@gmu.edu<mailto:jwitte@gmu.edu>; Gustavo Mesch, gustavo@soc.haifa.ac.il<mailto:gustavo@soc.haifa.ac.il> CITASA William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award: Ron Anderson Professor Emeritus University of Minnesota CITASA Student Paper Award Recognizes a published or unpublished paper/book chapter, or the design or use of a communication or information technology that provides an exceptional contribution to the sociology of communications or the sociology of information technology. The award is open to students in other disciplines than sociology. Students do not need to be members of ASA or CITASA. 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. Authors need not have a degree in sociology or be in a sociology department to be considered for an award. 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. Chair: Noelle Chesley, chesley@uwm.edu<mailto:chesley@uwm.edu> Members: Sarah Gatson, Gatson@tamu.edu<mailto:Gatson@tamu.edu>; Grant Blank, grant.blank@oii.ox.ac.uk<mailto:grant.blank@oii.ox.ac.uk> CITASA Student Paper Award: Ya-Wen Lei - "Institutional-social Embeddedness of the Public Sphere: Media, Law, Networks, and the Heterogeneous Development of the Public Sphere in China" The committee would also like to give an honorable mention to Aaron Shaw for his paper (with Yochai Benkler) entitled "A Tale of Two Blogospheres: Discursive Practices on the Left and Right." CITASA AWARD for Public Sociology CITASA Award for Public Sociology recognizes a specific achievement in teaching, the development or the use of a communication or information technology, or the dissemination of knowledge that advances public understanding or engagement with the sociology of communications or the sociology of information technology. Chair: Jessie Daniels, jdaniels@hunter.cuny.edu<mailto:jdaniels@hunter.cuny.edu> Members: Ron Anderson, rea@umn.edu<mailto:rea@umn.edu>; Jen Schradie, Schradie@berkeley.edu<mailto:Schradie@berkeley.edu> CITASA Award for Public Sociology: Lisa Wade and Gwen Sharp as co-recipients of the award for their work creating and maintaining the Sociological Images blog. Congratulations to all the winners and honorable mentions of this year's CITASA awards! We hope to see many of you in Denver at ASA. Shelia CITASA, Chair-Elect *************************************** Shelia R. Cotten, PhD Professor Department of Sociology University of Alabama, Birmingham 460N Heritage Hall 1530 3rd Ave S. Birmingham, AL 35294-1152 205-934-8678 cotten@uab.edu Twitter: @shelia_cotten