Deadline: March 17, 2023
Dear colleagues,
I am writing to share the call for nominations for The International Journal of Press/Politics Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award 2023. The award honors internationally oriented books published within 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 the call for nominations at the bottom of this email and on the journal website at https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/HIJ/2023%20IJPP%20book%20award%20announcement-1670345784.pdf.
I would be very grateful if you could consider nominating books (self-nominations are also accepted) and share this call for nominations with anyone you think may be interested in it. The deadline is March 17, 2023.
Call for Nominations
The International Journal of Press/Politics Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award 2023
Deadline: 17 March 2023
Nominations are invited for the annual International Journal of Press/Politics Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award, to be sent to committee members no later than March 17, 2023.
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 on the following criteria: the extent to which the book contributes to internationally relevant knowledge; the significance of the problems addressed; the strength of the evidence the book relies on; conceptual innovation, clarity of writing; and the book’s 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 by members of their own department, works published in series that they edit, and similar circumstances.
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 including a rationale of no more than 350 words should be emailed to Cristian Vaccari (c.vaccari@lboro.ac.uk by March 17, 2023. Self-nominations are accepted.
The nomination must specify why the book should receive the award by outlining the importance of the book to the study of media and politics and by identifying its international contribution and relevance. 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 17 to each of the three committee members at the following addresses:
- Cristian Vaccari, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Brockington Building U3.19, Loughborough University, Epinal Way, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, United Kingdom. Email: c.vaccari@lboro.ac.uk.
- Frank Esser, Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Andreas St 15, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland. Email: f.esser@ikmz.uzh.ch
- Annika Sehl, Department of Journalism, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Ostenstraße 25, 85072 Eichstätt, Germany. Email: annika.sehl@ku.de
Presentation
The award will be presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association and will be announced on the IJPP website.
Past winners of the award
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).
