The Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology’s Public Sociology Award
Prior to 2008 this award was for teaching or the design of a computer application.
2023: Tressie McMillan Cottom, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2022: Apryl Williams, University of Michigan
2022: Pablo Boczkowski, Northwestern University
2022: Eugenia Mitchelstein, Universidad de San Andrés
2021: Dr. Sandra L. Barnes, Vanderbilt University
2020: Marc Smith and the NodeXL Project, Social Media Research Foundation
2019: Joseph Cohen, City University of New York, Queens College
2018: Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, The New School for Social Research
2017: Mike Stern, Washington State University
2016: Eszter Hargittai, Northwestern University
2015: Jessie Daniels, City University of New York
2014: Zeynep Tufekci, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2013: Shelia Cotten, University of Alabama, Birmingham
2012: Lisa Wade, Occidental College, and Gwen Sharp, Nevada State College
2011: Lee Rainie, Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project
2010: Danah Boyd, Microsoft Research and Berkman Center
2009: Peter Kollock, University of California, Los Angeles
2008: Michael Macy, Cornell University
2007: Keith Hampton, University of Pennsylvania
2006: Marc Smith, Microsoft Research
2005: Stephen Borgatti, Boston University
2004: Earl Babbie, Chapman University
2002: Robert Wood, Rutgers University, Camden
2001: Gregg Lee Carter, Bryant College
2000: Alan Hill, Delta College
1998: Kenneth Stewart, Angelo State University
1997: J. Daniel Cover, Furman University
1995: Fred S. Halley, State University of New York
The Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology’s Book Award
2023: Karen Levy, Cornell University, Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance. Princeton University Press. 2023.
2023 Honorable Mention: Francesca Bolla Tripodi, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Propagandists’ Playbook: How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy. Yale University Press. 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention: Diane Vaughan, Columbia University, Dead Reckoning: Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk. University of Chicago Press. 2021.
2022: Allissa V. Richardson, University of Southern California, Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism. Oxford University Press. 2020.
2022: Sarah Brayne, The University of Texas at Austin, Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing. Oxford University Press. 2020.
2022 Honorable Mention: Angèle Christin, Stanford University, Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms. Princeton University Press. 2020.
2021: Forrest Stuart, Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
2021: Sarah Sobieraj, Credible Threat: Attacks Against Women Online and the Future of Democracy
2021: Matthew H. Rafalow, Digital Divisions: How Schools Create Inequality in the Tech Era
2020: Stephen R. Barnard, St. Lawrence University, Citizens at the Gates: Twitter, Networked Publics, and the Transformation of American Journalism
2020 Honorable Mention: Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
2020 Honorable Mention: Mary L. Gray, Senior Researcher and Siddharth Suri, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
2019: T.L. Taylor, Watch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming. Princeton University Press. 2018.
2019: Jeffrey Lane, The Digital Street. Oxford University Press. 2018.
2018: Christo Sims, University of California, San Diego, Disruptive Fixation: School Reform and the Pitfalls of Techno-Idealism. Princeton University Press. 2017.
2017: Phaedra Daipha, Masters of Uncertainty: Weather Forecasters and the Quest for Ground Truth. University of Chicago Press. 2015.
2017: Mohamed Zayani, Networked Publics and Digital Contention. Oxford University Press. 2015.
2016: H. A. Haveman, Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860. Princeton University Press. 2015.
2016: J. Vertesi, Seeing Like a Rover: How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars. University of Chicago Press. 2015.
2015: Susan Crawford, Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age. Yale University Press. 2013.
2014: Lee Rainie, PEW Research Center, and Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, Networked: The New Social Operating System. MIT Press. 2012.
2013: Gina Neff, University of Washington, Venture Labor. MIT Press. 2012.
2013: Yuri Takhteyev, University of Toronto, Coding Places. MIT Press. 2012.
2012: Leah Lievrouw, University of California, Los Angeles, Alternative and Activist New Media. Polity Press. 2011.
2011: Pablo Boczkowski, News at Work: Imitation in an Age of Information Abundance. University of Chicago Press. 2010.
2010: Guobin Yang, The Power of the Internet in China Citizen Activism Online. Columbia University Press. 2009.
2008: Yochai Benkler, Harvard University, The Wealth Of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. Yale University Press. 2006.
2008 Honorable Mention: Fred Turner, Stanford University, From Counterculture to Cyberculture. Chicago University Press. 2006.
2007: Andrew Chadwick, University of London, Internet Politics. Oxford University Press. 2006.
2006: Philip Howard, University of Washington, New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen. Cambridge University Press. 2006.
2005: Paul Starr, Princeton University, The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications. Basic Books. 2004.
The Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology’s Outstanding Contributions to Computing in Sociology
2004: Barry Wellman, University of Toronto
2003: Caroline Hodges Persell, New York University
2001: Kathleen M. Carley, Carnegie-Mellon University
2000: William E. Feinberg, University of Cincinnati
1998: John Seidel
1995: David Heise, Indiana University
The Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology’s Outstanding Contributions to Research Award
2006: Manuel Castells, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
1999: Edward E. Brent, Jr., University of Missouri, Columbia
The Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology’s Student Paper Award
2023: Risa Murase, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “The Invisible Glass: From Criminality to Conditional Inclusion in Japanese Media Coverage of Migrants.”
2023 Honorable Mention: Di Zhou, New York University, “The Elements of Cultural Power: Novelty, Emotion, Status, and Cultural Capital.”
2022: Ke Nie, University of California, San Diego “Disperse and preserve the perverse: computing how hip-hop censorship changed popular music genres in China.” Poetics, Vol. 88. 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Jiaqi Liu, University of California, San Diego, “State power beyond the state: Digital infrastructures of China’s diaspora governance during the Covid-19 pandemic.”
2021: Morgan Johnstonbaugh, “Men Find Trophies Where Women Find Insults: Sharing Nude Images of Others as Collective Rituals of Sexual Pursuit and Rejection”
2021 Honorable Mention: Bo Yun Park, “Crafting the Message: The Data Science Behind U.S. Presidential Elections”
2020: Tony Cheng, Yale University, “Social media, Selective Transparency, and Pursuing Legitimation of Police Violence”
2019: Devika Narayan, University of Minnesota, “Between the cloud and a hard place: How new computing infrastructures fuel an asset-light economy”
2019: Jeffrey Swindle, University of Michigan, “Exposure to Global Cultural Scripts through Media and Attitudes toward Violence against Women”
2018: Scott Duxbury, Laura Frizzell, and Sade Lindsay, Ohio State University, “Mental Illness, the Media, and the Moral Politics of Mass Violence: The Role of Race in Mass Shootings Coverage”
2018: Ethel L. Mickey, Northeastern University, “Doing Gender, Doing Networks: Exploring Individual Networking Strategies in High-Tech”
2016: Matt Rafalow, “Disciplining Play: Digital Youth Culture as Capital at School,” American Journal of Sociology 123(5):1416-1452. 2018.
2015: Christine Larson, Department of Communication, Stanford University, “Live publishing: the onstage redeployment of journalistic authority,” Media, Culture, & Society 37(3):440-459. 2015.
2014: Angèle Christin, Princeton University, “Counting Clicks: Commensuration in Online Journalism in the United States and France”
2013: Jeffrey Lane, Princeton University, “Code Switching on the Digital Street”
2012: Ya-Wen Lei, University of Michigan, “Institutional-social Embeddedness of the Public Sphere: Media, Law, Networks, and the Heterogeneous Development of the Public Sphere in China”
2011: Dmitry Epstein, Cornell University, Erik Nisbet, The Ohio State University, and Tarleton Gillespie, Cornell University, “Who’s Responsible for the Digital Divide? Public Perceptions and Policy Implications,” The Information Society 27(2):92-104. 2011.
2010: Lauren F. Sessions, University of Pennsylvania, “How offline gatherings affect online communities: When virtual community members ‘meetup,'” Information, Communication & Society 13(3):375-395. 2010.
2009: Daniel Menchik and Ziaoli Tian, University of Chicago, “Putting Social Context into Text: The Semiotics of E-mail Interaction,” American Journal of Sociology 114(2):332-370. 2008.
2008: Steven G. Hoffman, Northwestern University
2008: Alison Powell, Concordia University
2007: Lee Humphries, University of Pennsylvania
2006: Fred Turner, Stanford University, “Where the Counterculture Met the New Economy: The WELL and the Origins of Virtual Community,” Technology and Culture 46(3):485-512. 2005.
2005: Laura Robinson, University of California, Los Angeles, and Sean Zehnders, Northwestern University, The Social Network Spider and Visualization Software (SNS-VS)
2004: Jeffrey Boase, University of Toronto
2003: Tracy Kennedy and Kristine Klement, University of Toronto, “Gendering the Digital Divide,” IT & Society 1(5):149-172. 2003.
2002: Julian Dierkes, University of British Columbia, “The Sociolog: Julian Dierkes’ Comprehensive Guide to Sociology On-Line”
2001: Eszter Hargittai, Princeton University, “Weaving the Western Web: explaining differences in Internet connectivity among OECD countries,” Telecommunications Policy 23(10-11):701-718. 1999.
2000: Pablo Boczkowski, Cornell University, “Mimetic Originality: Technology, Newswork, Organizing in an Online Newspaper”
1999: Pablo J. Boczkowski, Cornell University, “Distributed Construction: Changing Regimes of Information Creation in Online Newspapers”
1997: Pablo J. Boczkowski, Cornell University, “The Mutual Shaping of Users and Technologies In and Through Computer-Mediated Communication: Artifacts of Nationhood in the Argentine Mailing List”
The Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology’s Paper Award
2023: Allison Pugh, University of Virginia, “Constructing What Counts as Human at Work: Enigma, Emotion, and Error in Connective Labor.” American Behavioral Scientist. 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention: Larry W. Isaac, Vanderbilt University, Jonathan S. Coley, Oklahoma State University, Quan D. Mai, Rutgers University, and Anna W. Jacobs, Vanderbilt University, “Striking News: Discursive Power of the Press as Capitalist Resource in Gilded Age Strikes.” American Journal of Sociology. 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention: Minsu Park, New York University Abu Dhabi, Chao Yu, and Michael Macy, Cornell University, “Fighting Bias with Bias: How Same-race Endorsements Reduce Racial Discrimination on Airbnb.” Science Advances. 2023.
2022: Arvind Karunakaran, McGill University, Wanda J. Orlikowski, MIT, and Susan V. Scott, London School of Economics, “Crowd-Based Accountability: Examining How Social Media Commentary Reconfigures Organizational Accountability.” Organization Science, Vol. 33(1): 170-193. 2022.
2021: Ya-Wen Lei, Harvard University, “Delivering Solidarity: Platform Architecture and Collective Contention in China’s Platform Economy”, American Sociological Review 2021
2021 Honorable Mention: Kailey White, University of Chicago, Forrest Stuart, Stanford University, and Shannon L. Morrissey, University of Chicago, “Whose Lives Matter? Race, Space, and the Devaluation of Homicide Victims in Minority Communities”, Sociology of Race & Ethnicity 2020
2021 Honorable Mention: Sarah Brayne, University of Texas at Austin and Angèle Christin, Stanford University, “Technologies of Crime Prediction: The Reception of Algorithms in Policing and Criminal Courts”, Social Problems 2020
2020: David Grazian, University of Pennsylvania, “Thank God it’s Monday: Manhattan coworking spaces in the new economy”
2020: Jen Schradie, L’Observatoire sociologique du changement, Sciences Po, Paris, “The Digital Activism Gap: How Class and Costs Shape Online Collective Action”
2020: Forrest Stuart, Stanford University, “Code of the Tweet: Urban Gang Violence in the Social Media Age”
2019: Matthew Rafalow, “Disciplining Play: Digital Youth Culture as Capital at School,” American Journal of Sociology 123(5):1416–52. 2018.
2018: Christopher A. Bail, Taylor W. Brown, and Marcus Mann, “Channeling Hearts and Minds: Advocacy Organizations, Cognitive-Emotional Currents, and Public Conversation,” American Sociological Review 82(6):1188-1213. 2017.
2017: Eran Shor, Alex Miltsov, Arnout van de Rijt, Vivek Kulkarni, and Steven Skiena, “A Paper Ceiling: Explaining the Persistent Underrepresentation of Women in Printed News,” American Sociological Review 80(5):960-84. 2015.
2016: Ion Bogdan Vasi, T. Walker, John S. Johnson, and Hui Fen Tand, “No Fracking Way! Documentary Film, Discursive Opportunity, and Local Opposition against Hydraulic Fracturing in the United States, 2010 to 2013” American Sociological Review 80(5):934-959. 2015.
2015: Keith N. Hampton, Lauren Sessions Goulet, and Garrett Albanesius, “Change in the Social Life of Urban Public Spaces: The Rise of Mobile Phones and Women, and the Decline of Aloneness Over Thirty Years,” Urban Studies 52(8):1489-1504. 2015.
2014: Christopher Bail, University of California, Chapel Hill, “The Fringe Effect: Civil Society Organizations and the Evolution of Media Discourse about Islam since the September 11th Attacks,” American Sociological Review 77(6):855-879. 2012.
2013: Shelley Boulianne, MacEwan University, “Stimulating or Reinforcing Political Interest: Using Panel Data to Examine Reciprocal Effects Between News Media and Political Interest,” Political Communication 28(2):147-162. 2011.
2012: Robert Ackland and Mathieu O’Neil, “Online collective identity: The case of the environmental movement,” Social Networks 33(3):177-190. 2011.
2011: Keith N. Hampton, Oren Livio, and Lauren Sessions Goulet, “The Social Life of Wireless Urban Spaces: Internet Use, Social Networks, and the Public Realm,” Journal of Communication 60(4):701-722. 2010.
2010: James A. Evans, University of Chicago, “Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship,” Science 321(5887):395-399. 2008.
2009: Eszter Hargitta, Jason Gallo, and Matthew Kane, Northwestern University, “Cross-ideological discussions among conservative and liberal bloggers,” Public Choice 134(1-2):67-86. 2008.
2008: Paul Leonardi, Northwestern University
2007: Laura Robinson, University of Southern California
2006: Fred Turner, Stanford University
2005: Daniel Beunza, Unversitat Pompeu Fabra, and David Stark, Columbia University
2005: Siobhan O’Mahony, Harvard Business School
The Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology’s William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award
2023: Bibi Reisdorf, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
2023: Laura Robinson, Santa Clara University
2022: Keith Hampton, Michigan State University
2021: Deana Rohlinger, Florida State University
2021: Matthew J. Salganik, Princeton University
2020: Paul DiMaggio, New York University, Professor Emeritus Princeton University
2019: Eszter Hargittai, Professor in the Institute of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich
2018: W. Russell Neuman, Professor of Media Technology, New York University, and Professor Emeritus, Communication Studies, University of Michigan
2017: Gary T. Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Senior Career
2017: Jennifer Earl, University of Arizona, Mid Career
2016: Shelia Cotten, Michigan State University, Senior Career
2016: Wenhong Chen, University of Texas, Austin, Mid Career
2015: Grant Blank, Oxford Internet Institute
2014: William Dutton, Oxford Internet Institute
2013: Judy Wajcman, The London School of Economics and Political Science
2012: Ron Anderson, University of Minnesota, Professor Emeritus
2011: James E. Katz, Rutgers University
2010: John Robinson, University of Maryland
2009: Elihu Katz, University of Pennsylvania
2008: William Sims Bainbridge, National Science Foundation
2007: David Lyon, Queen’s University
2006: Manuel Castells, University of Southern California
2004: Barry Wellman, University of Toronto
2003: Caroline Hodges Persell, New York University
