We are pleased to call for nominations for the Nancy Baym Annual Book Award. This award recognizes the best scholarship of the Association of Internet Researchers, and highlights the breadth of work relating to the social and cultural dimensions of networked media.
To be eligible for the award:
- The book must be authored or co-authored as a monograph and must explore a single topic (edited collections are not eligible).
- All of the book’s authors must be current members of AoIR at the time of submission (May 7, 2025). Memberships may be purchased here: https://members.aoir.org/.
- The book must have been published between January 1 and December 31, 2024.
The books will be reviewed by a committee of Jun Liu, (University of Copenhagen and Committee Chair), Nancy Baym (Microsoft Research), Niki Cheong (King’s College London), Helton Levy (London Metropolitan University), John McNut (University of Delaware), Sarah Murray (University of Michigan), and Robert Tynes (Bard College).
Each book should be accompanied by an emailed letter of nomination. Self-nominations are most certainly welcome. The letter of nomination, which must be written by a current member of AoIR, should outline:
- How the book contributes to AoIR’s intellectual community.
- The book’s unique contributions and overall strengths.
- If not a self-nomination, the letter should also include a statement that the nominated author has been contacted prior to its submission and accepts the nomination.
- Books submitted without a meaningful nomination letter outlining both the strengths of the book and the book’s contribution to the AoIR community to AoIR will not be eligible.
We are happy to accept books in either digital or hard copy. If digital, please send a PDF to bookaward [at] aoir.org or write to ask for individual email addresses.
Hard copies should be mailed to the below committee members:
Jun Liu – Committee Chair
Center for Tracking and Society, University of Copenhagen
Karen Blixens Plads 8,
DK-2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark
Nancy Baym
Microsoft, 12th floor
1 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02142
USA
Dr Niki Cheong
Department of Digital Humanities
King’s College London
Strand
London
WC2R 2LS
UK
Dr Helton Levy
London Metropolitan University/ School of Computing and Digital Media
166-220 Holloway Road,
Room BP1-25
London N7 8DB
UK
Robert Tynes
Bard Prison Initiative
Bard College, PO Box 5000
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000
USA
John McNutt
Please contact ac@aoir.org for address
Sarah Murray
University of Michigan
6330 N. Quad
105 S. State St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285
USA
Please send in all nomination materials by May 7, 2025.
