Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media, Markets and Democracy*
Call for nominations (closes February 28, 2025)
The Edwin Baker Award recognizes work that has made significant contributions to the development, reach and influence of scholarship on media, markets and democracy. While the award committee favours research that consists of multiple projects and publications that have made a clear, coherent and sustained contribution to the advancement of such scholarship over time, single works and/or activities that have been highly influential in the field may also qualify someone for nomination.Nominees for this award will have accomplished one or more of the following:
- Opened up new theoretical and/or methodological territory in research on any aspect of the interrelations between media, markets and democracy;
- Made other important contributions to the advancement of scholarship on these inter-relations; and/or
- Engaged in activism that advanced scholarship on these inter-relations.
The award is open to ICA members and to anyone else whose research can be shown to have a connection with the work of the ICA and its various divisions.
We encourage self-nominations, as well as the nomination of others. The award committee encourages nominations that reflect the diversity of media and communications scholarship in terms of gender, ethnicity, race and sexuality. We welcome nominations from any part of the world.
All nominators must submit letter(s) of nomination, not to exceed two pages, that must:
- Specify the relevant body of work and/or other contributions made;
- Address the work's and/or activity's contributions to scholarship of media, markets and democracy (in the case of research, this will involve theoretical and methodological assessments of that work); and,
- Make a case for its influence and impact on the advancement of such scholarship.
All materials electronically submitted by February 28, 2025 to: Tanja Dreher ------------------------------
Tanja Dreher
Associate Professor
UNSW
Fairy Meadow NSW
Australia
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