Hello all, It's my pleasure to announce that the winner of the first AoIR Book Award is Richard Harper for his book *Texture: Human Expression in the Age of Communications Overload *from MIT Press.You can read more about the work here: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12256 Richard has kindly agreed to give a keynote talk at IR 12 this October in Seattle based on his work. Please join me in congratulating him on this achievement. I'd also like to thank the members of the award committee, Steve Jones, Sonia Livingstone, and Peng Hwa Ang for their work in making the selection. all the best, Mia -- Mia Consalvo, AoIR President Visiting Associate Professor Comparative Media Studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building 14N-226 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA consalvo@mit.edu 617.324.1868