*The deadline for the Nancy Baym Annual Book Award nominations is 1 May 2022.* 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 1, 2022). Memberships may be purchased here https://members.aoir.org/. - The book must have been published between January 1 and December 31, 2021. The books will be reviewed by a committee of Robert W. Gehl-Louisiana Tech University (Chair), Nancy Baym-Microsoft Research, Jakob Linaa Jensen-Aarhus University, Jun Liu-University of Copenhagen, Bjorn Nansen-The University of Melbourne, Robert Tynes-Bard College, Arantxa Vizcaino Verdu-University of Huelva, and Weiyu Zhang-National University of Singapore. Each book should be accompanied by an emailed letter of nomination. Self-nominations from AoIR members are 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 pdf to bookaward [at] aoir.org or contact for individual email addresses. Additional nomination details available here: https://aoir.org/2022bookaward/