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2023 CITAMS Awards

William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award
Mid-Career Achievement

This award recognizes a sustained body of research by a scholar who has provided an outstanding contribution to the advancement of knowledge in the areas relevant to the section. Please note that this award focuses on lifetime achievements in even years and mid-career achievements in odd year. Scholars who received their PhD 20+ years prior are eligible for this award in even years. Scholars who received their PhD 10-20 years prior are eligible in odd years. The award committee will take into consideration exceptions for parental leave and illness. If you would like to nominate a colleague for the award, please send a nomination letter and the candidate’s CV via email to the committee chair by March 15, 2023. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged, as are nominations that highlight the work of underrepresented groups—those who work internationally, work in industry, those in small teaching-oriented institutions, BIPOC scholars, scholars with disabilities, LGBTQI scholars, and those at the intersections of these and other categories. For reference, past award recipients are listed here.

Committee Members:
Jenny Davis (Chair) jennifer.davis@anu.edu.au
Cassidy Puckett cassidy.puckett@emory.edu
Keith Hampton khampton@msu.edu

Best Paper Award
This award recognizes an outstanding published paper or book chapter on a topic relevant to the section. Submissions must be in English and published within the two calendar years prior to the award nomination deadline. If you would like to nominate a paper for the award, please send a nomination letter and a copy of the paper via email to the committee chair by March 15, 2023. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged, as are nominations that highlight the work of underrepresented groups—those who work internationally, work in industry, those in small teaching-oriented institutions, BIPOC scholars, scholars with disabilities, LGBTQI scholars, and those at the intersections of these and other categories.

Committee Members:
Celeste Campos-Castillo (Chair) camposca@msu.edu
PJ Patella-Rey pj.patella.rey@pitt.edu
Arvind Karunakaran arvindka@stanford.edu

Best Student Paper Award
This award recognizes an outstanding published or unpublished paper/book chapter on a topic relevant to the section, or an outstanding design or use of media, communication, or information technology. Submissions must be in English. If you would like to nominate a paper for the award, please send a nomination letter and a copy of the paper via email to the committee chair by March 15, 2023. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged, as are nominations that highlight the work of underrepresented groups—those who work internationally, work in industry, those in small teaching-oriented institutions, BIPOC scholars, scholars with disabilities, LGBTQI scholars, and those at the intersections of these and other categories.

Committee Members:
Dustin Kidd (Chair) dkidd@temple.edu
Francesca Bolla Tripodi ftripodi@email.unc.edu
Ke Nie knie@ucsd.edu

Best Book Award
This award recognizes an outstanding book on a topic relevant to the section. Submissions must be in English and published within the two calendar years prior to the award nomination deadline. If you would like to nominate a book for the award, please send an informal nomination letter via email to the committee members. Copies of the book need to be provided in physical or electronic form to each of the committee members on or before March 15, 2023. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged, as are nominations that highlight the work of underrepresented groups—those who work internationally, work in industry, those in small teaching-oriented institutions, BIPOC scholars, scholars with disabilities, LGBTQI scholars, and those at the intersections of these and other categories.

Committee Members:

Tim Recuber (Chair) trecuber@smith.edu
Wright Hall 203
Smith College
Northampton MA 01063

Melissa Brown mbrown3@scu.edu
Department of Communication
Vari Hall 227
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053

Sarah Brayne sbrayne@utexas.edu
Department of Sociology
University of Texas at Austin
305 E. 23rd St.
Austin, TX
78712

Public Sociology Award
This award 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 on topics of concern in the section. If you would like to nominate a scholar for the award, please send a nomination letter via email to the chair by March 15, 2023. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged, as are nominations that highlight the work of underrepresented groups—those who work internationally, work in industry, those in small teaching-oriented institutions, BIPOC scholars, scholars with disabilities, LGBTQI scholars, and those at the intersections of these and other categories.

Committee Members:
Bianca Christin Reisdorf (Chair) bianca.reisdorf@uncc.edu
Tyler Burgese tyler.burgese@temple.edu
Pablo J. Boczkowski pjb9@northwestern.edu

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CITAMS AWARDS

CITAMS William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award

This award recognizes a sustained body of research by a scholar who has provided an outstanding contribution to the advancement of knowledge in the areas relevant to the section. Please note that scholars who have had their Ph.D. more than 20 years are eligible for this award. If you would like to nominate a colleague for the award, please send a nomination letter and the candidate’s CV via email to the following committee members.

Best Paper Award

This award recognizes an outstanding published paper or book chapter on a topic relevant to the section. Submissions must be in English and published within the two calendar years prior to the award nomination deadline. If you would like to nominate a paper for the award, please send a nomination letter and a copy of the paper via email to the following committee members.

Best Student Paper Award

This award recognizes an outstanding published or unpublished paper/book chapter on a topic relevant to the section, or an outstanding design or use of media, communication, or information technology. Submissions must be in English. If you would like to nominate a paper for the award, please send a nomination letter and a copy of the paper via email to the following committee members.

Best Book Award

This award recognizes an outstanding book on a topic relevant to the section. Submissions must be in English and published within the two calendar years prior to the award nomination deadline. If you would like to nominate a book for the award, please send a nomination letter via email to the committee members. Copies of the book need to be mailed to and received by each of the committee members.

Public Sociology Award

This award 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 on topics of concern in the section. If you would like to nominate a scholar for the award, please send a nomination letter via email to the following committee members.

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2022 CITAMS Awards

Ogburn Career Achievement

Dr. Keith Hampton, Michigan State University

Best Paper

Arvind Karunakaran, Wanda J. Orlikowski, and Susan V. Scott. “Crowd-Based Accountability: Examining How Social Media Commentary Reconfigures Organizational Accountability” (Organization Science 2022 33:1, 170-193)

Student Paper Winner:

Ke Nie, University of California, San Diego “Disperse and preserve the perverse: computing how hip-hop censorship changed popular music genres in China” (Poetic 2021 88: 105190)

Honorable Mention:

Jiaqi Liu, University of California San Diego “State power beyond the state: Digital infrastructures of China’s diaspora governance during the Covid-19 pandemic”

Book Award Co-Winners:

Dr. Allissa V. Richardson, Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism (Oxford University Press, 2020)

Dr. Sarah Brayne, Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing (Oxford University Press, 2020)

Honorable Mention:

Dr. Angèle Christin, Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms (Princeton University Press, 2020)

Public Sociology

Dr. Apryl Williams (University of Michigan)

Dr. Pablo Boczkowski (Northwestern University)

Dr. Eugenia Mitchelstein (Universidad de San Andrés)

2021 CITAMS Award Winners

William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award

Deana Rohlinger, Florida State University

Matthew J. Salganik, Princeton University

Paper Award

Ya-Wen Lei, Harvard University, “Delivering Solidarity: Platform Architecture and Collective Contention in China’s Platform Economy,” American Sociological Review 2021

Honorable Mention: Kailey White, University of Chicago, Forrest Stuart, Stanford University, and Shannon L. Morrissey, University of Chicago, “Whose Lives Matter? Race, Space, and the Devaluation of Homicide Victims in Minority Communities,” Sociology of Race & Ethnicity 2020

Honorable Mention: Sarah Brayne, University of Texas at Austin and Angèle Christin, Stanford University, “Technologies of Crime Prediction: The Reception of Algorithms in Policing and Criminal Courts,” Social Problems 2020

 

Student Paper Award

Morgan Johnstonbaugh, “Men Find Trophies Where Women Find Insults: Sharing Nude Images of Others as Collective Rituals of Sexual Pursuit and Rejection”

Honorable Mention: Bo Yun Park, “Crafting the Message: The Data Science Behind U.S. Presidential Elections”

 

Book Award

Forrest Stuart, Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy

Sarah Sobieraj, Credible Threat: Attacks Against Women Online and the Future of Democracy

Matthew H. Rafalow, Digital Divisions: How Schools Create Inequality in the Tech Era

 

Public Sociology Award

Dr. Sandra L. Barnes, Vanderbilt University

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2020 CITAMS Award Winners

CITAMS Book Award
Stephen R. Barnard, St. Lawrence University: “Citizens at the Gates: Twitter, Networked Publics, and the Transformation of American Journalism”

CITAMS Book Award Honorable Mention
Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University: “Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code”

CITAMS Book Award Honorable Mention
Mary L. Gray, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research
Siddharth Suri, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
“Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass”

CITAMS William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award
Paul DiMaggio, New York University, Professor Emeritus Princeton University

CITAMS Student Paper Award
Tony Cheng, Yale University
“Social media, Selective Transparency, and Pursuing Legitimation of Police Violence”

CITAMS Public Sociology Award
Marc Smith and the NodeXL Project, Social Media Research Foundation

CITAMS Best Paper Award (three awardees listed alphabetically)
David Grazian, University of Pennsylvania
“Thank God it’s Monday: Manhattan coworking spaces in the new economy”

Jen Schradie, L’Observatoire sociologique du changement, Sciences Po, Paris
“The Digital Activism Gap: How Class and Costs Shape Online Collective Action”

Forrest Stuart, Stanford University
“Code of the Tweet: Urban Gang Violence in the Social Media Age”

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2019 Award Winners

CITAMS Best Student Paper Award (Co-Winners)

Devika Narayan, University of Minnesota, “Between the cloud and a hard place:  How new computing infrastructures fuel an asset-light economy”

Jeffrey Swindle, University of Michigan) for “Exposure to Global Cultural Scripts through Media and Attitudes toward Violence against Women”

CITAMS Book Award (Co-Winners)

T.L. Taylor, Watch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming. Princeton University Press. 2018.

Jeffrey Lane, The Digital Street. Oxford University Press. 2018.

CITAMS Best Paper Award

Rafalow, Matthew. “Disciplining Play: Digital Youth Culture as Capital at School.” American Journal of Sociology 123 (5): 1416–52. 2018.

CITAMS William F. Ogburn Mid-Career Achievement Award

Eszter Hargittai (Mid-Career Achievement Award). Professor in the Institute of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich

Public Sociology Award

Joseph Cohen, City University of New York, Queens College