[Air-L] Call for nominations for the IJPP Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award (deadline: 28 March)

[Cristian Vaccari]

Dear colleagues,

I am writing to share the call for nominations for the International
Journal of Press/Politics 2024 Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award,
which honors internationally oriented books published in the last ten
years that advance our theoretical and empirical understanding of the
linkages between news media and politics in a globalized world in a
significant way.

You can find a description of the award and instructions on how to
submit a nomination below. The call for nominations is also available
at https://journals.sagepub.com/page/hij/best-book-award-2024.

I hope you will consider nominating books that meet the criteria.
Please feel free to share the call for nomination with any colleagues
you think may be interested in it.

All the best,

Cristian

*** Call for Nominations: The International Journal of Press/Politics
Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award 2024

Nominations are invited for the annual International Journal of
Press/Politics Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award, to be received no
later than March 28, 2024.

*** Rationale
The International Journal of Press/Politics Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best
Book Award honors internationally oriented books that advance our
theoretical and empirical understanding of the linkages between news
media and politics in a globalized world in a significant way. It is
given annually by the International Journal of Press/Politics and
sponsored by SAGE Publications.
The award committee will judge each nominated book based on the
following criteria:
- the extent to which the book contributes to internationally relevant
knowledge;
- the significance of the problems addressed;
- conceptual and theoretical innovation;
- strength of evidence;
- clarity of writing;
- ability to link journalism studies, political communication
research, and other relevant fields of intellectual and scholarly
inquiry.

*** Eligibility
Books written in English and published within the last ten years will
be considered. Monographs as well as edited volumes of exceptional
quality and coherence will be considered for the award. Books by
current members of the award committee are ineligible and committee
members will recuse themselves from discussion of books that may
entail conflicts of interest, such as books authored by members of
their own department or published in a series they edit. Books
nominated for previous editions of the award may be nominated again as
long as they meet the eligibility criteria.

*** Award committee
The award committee consists of Cristian Vaccari (Editor-in-Chief of
the International Journal of Press/Politics), Frank Esser (chair of
the Political Communication Division of ICA), and Annika Sehl (chair
of the Journalism Studies Division of ICA).

*** Nominations
Nominations should be emailed to Cristian Vaccari (cvaccari at ed.ac.uk)
by March 28, 2024. Self-nominations are accepted. Nominations should
be accompanied by a rationale of 300-500 words, authored by a
researcher, that clearly specifies why the book meets the criteria
listed above. Please include links to or copies of relevant reviews in
scholarly journals if applicable.

Arrangements should be made with the publishers of nominated books for
one hard copy or e-book (i.e., the full book in PDF form) to be sent
by March 28 to each of the three committee members at the following
addresses:

- Cristian Vaccari, Office 2.13C, Chrystal Macmillan Building, School
of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, 15a George
Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD, United Kingdom. Email: cvaccari at ed.ac.uk.
- Frank Esser, Department of Communication and Media Research,
University of Zurich, Andreas St 15, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland. Email:
f.esser at ikmz.uzh.ch
- Annika Sehl, Department of Journalism, Catholic University of
Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Ostenstraße 25, 85072 Eichstätt, Germany. Email:
annika.sehl at ku.de

*** Presentation
The award will be presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the
International Communication Association and will be announced on the
IJPP website.

*** Past winners of the award
2023: Gadi Wolfsfeld, Tamir Sheafer, and Scott Althaus, Building
Theory in Political Communication: The Politics-Media-Politics
Approach (Oxford University Press 2022).
2022: Nikki Usher, News for the Rich, White, and Blue: How Place and
Power Distort American Journalism (Columbia University Press 2021).
2021: Allissa V. Richardson, Bearing Witness While Black: African
Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism (Oxford
University Press 2020).
2020: Thomas Hanitzsch, Folker Hanusch, Jyotika Ramaprasad, and Arnold
S. de Beer (Editors), Worlds of Journalism: Journalistic Cultures
Around the Globe (Columbia University Press, 2019).
2019: Maria Repnikova, Media Politics in China: Improvising Power
Under Authoritarianism (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
2018: Erik Albæk, Arjen van Dalen, Nael Jebril, and Claes H. de
Vreese, Political Journalism in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge
University Press, 2014).
2017: Katrin Voltmer, The Media in Transitional Democracies (Polity
Press, 2013).
2016: Andrew Chadwick, The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power
(Oxford University Press, 1st edition 2013).
2015: Rodney Benson, Shaping Immigration News (Cambridge University
Press, 2014).

Cristian Vaccari, he/him/his
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Chair in Future Governance, Public Policy, and Technology, University
of Edinburgh
Director, MSc Future Governance, Edinburgh Futures Institute

Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Press/Politics
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Personal website: https://cristianvaccari.com/
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