Award News: Awards Roundup

We'd like to congratulate all of our recent book award winners. A quick summary:

Matthew Kirschenbaum's book Mechanisms won the George A. and Jeanne S. DeLong Prize in Book History given by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP). SHARP annually awards this $1000 prize to the author of the best book on any aspect of the creation, dissemination, or uses of script or print.

Rich Ling’s book New Tech, New Ties was the recipient of the 2009 Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction. This award, presented by the Media Ecology Association, is given to an outstanding publication that focus on social situations, symbolic interaction, interpersonal communication, nonverbal communication, social space, temporal rhythms, rules of engagement, performance of roles, and the presentation of self in everyday life.

Being Watched by Carrie Lambert-Beatty won the de la Torre Bueno Prize given by the Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS). The chair of the prize committee, Yatin Lin, wrote: I'm pleased to inform you that your beautifully written book Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s, has won the highest acclaim of all three of our committee members, and has been chosen the winner of the 2008 de la Torre Bueno Award. As I am sure you know, The de la Torre Bueno Prize® is awarded annually to the book published in the preceding year in the English language that makes the most significant contribution to advancing the field of dance studies for that year. Named after José Rollins de la Torre Bueno, the first university press editor to develop a list of titles in dance studies, the Bueno Prize has recognized scholarly excellence in the field since 1973.

Dauvergne’s The Shadows of Consumption was the co-winner of the Society for Human Ecology’s 2009 Gerald L. Young Book Award. This award is given annually to a book that exemplifies the high standard of scholarly work in the field of human ecology.

Comments

[Michael]

Congratulations to Rich Ling for his book 'New Tech, New Ties'.

An excellent book and well worth recommended!