Call for nominations: International Journal of Press/Politics Best Book Award, deadline 1 March 2021

[Cristian Vaccari]

Call for Nominations
The International Journal of Press/Politics Best Book Award 2021
Deadline: 1 March 2021

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Nominations are invited for the annual International Journal of Press/Politics Best Book Award, to be sent to committee members no later than March 1.

Rationale
The International Journal of Press/Politics 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 several criteria, including the extent to which the book goes beyond analyzing a single case country to present a broader and internationally oriented argument, the significance of the problems addressed, the strength of the evidence the book relies on, conceptual innovation, the clarity of writing, and the book’s ability to link journalism studies, political communication research, and other relevant intellectual fields.

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 (the editor of the International Journal of Press/Politics), Sophie Lecheler (chair of the Political Communication Division of ICA), and Seth Lewis (chair of the Journalism Studies Division of ICA).

Nominations
Nominations including a rationale of no more than 350 words should be emailed by March 1 to Cristian Vaccari at c.va...@lboro.ac.uk. 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.

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 1 to each of the three committee members at the following addresses:
- Cristian Vaccari, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Brockington Building U.3.19, Loughborough University, Epinal Way, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, United Kingdom. Email: c.va...@lboro.ac.uk.
- Sophie Lecheler, Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Kolingasse 14-16, 1090 Vienna, Austria. Email: sophie....@univie.ac.at
- Seth Lewis, School of Journalism and Communication, 1275 University of Oregon, Allen Hall Room 219, Eugene, OR 97403-1275, USA . Email: scl...@uoregon.edu

Presentation
The award will be presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association and will be announced on the IJPP website. The awarded book will also receive recognition in issue 4/2021 of the journal.

Past winners of the award
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

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Professor of Political Communication, Loughborough University

Co-Director, Centre for Research in Communication and Culture

Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Press/Politics

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Personal website: https://cristianvaccari.com/

Google Scholar profile

Twitter: @prof_vaccari