Dear colleagues, I hope this email finds you healthy and safe. I am writing to share the call for nominations for the 2022 IJPP Best Book Award, with nominations due on the 15th of March. The call for nominations is reproduced below and available online at https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/HIJ/2022%20IJPP%20book%20a... . The 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. 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. The award committee is composed of Sophie Lecheler, Seth Lewis, and myself. I hope you will consider submitting your own work as well as other colleagues' work that you think deserves this recognition. I would also be grateful if you could help spread the word about this award to anyone you think might be interested. *** Call for Nominations *** The International Journal of Press/Politics Best Book Award 2022 *** Deadline: 15 March 2022 Nominations are invited for the annual International Journal of Press/Politics Best Book Award, to be sent to committee members no later than March 15. 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 15 to Cristian Vaccari at c.vaccari@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 15 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.vaccari@lboro.ac.uk. Sophie Lecheler, Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Kolingasse 14-16, 1090 Vienna, Austria. Email: sophie.lecheler@univie.ac.at Seth Lewis, School of Journalism and Communication, 1275 University of Oregon, Allen Hall Room 219, Eugene, OR 97403-1275, USA . Email: sclewis@uoregon.edu Presentation The award will be presented at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association and will be announced on the IJPP website. The awarded book will also receive recognition in issue 4/2022 of the journal. Past winners of the award 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 ****************************************************** Professor of Political Communication, Loughborough University <https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/communication-media/staff/cristian-vaccari/> Director, Centre for Research in Communication and Culture <https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crcc/> Editor-in-Chief, *The International Journal of Press/Politics <https://journals.sagepub.com/home/hijb>* ****************************************************** New book: Outside the Bubble: <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/outside-the-bubble-9780190858483?lang=en&cc=gb>Social Media and Political Participation in Western Democracies <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/outside-the-bubble-9780190858483?lang=en&cc=gb> (with Augusto Valeriani, OUP 2021) New project: Everyday Sharing of Misinformation on Private <https://everyday-mis.info/>Social Media <https://everyday-mis.info/> (with Andrew Chadwick) ****************************************************** Personal website: https://cristianvaccari.com/ Google Scholar profile <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3_TethEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao> Twitter: @prof_vaccari <https://twitter.com/prof_vaccari> Preferred pronouns: he/him/his