The Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) invites nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual Surveillance Studies Book Award.
The award is given in recognition of an outstanding monograph on surveillance published during the preceding year. We are currently inviting nominations for 2020 (i.e., books with a ‘2019’ copyright date).
Single or multi-authored works are eligible, but not edited volumes.
The winner will receive an award amount of £100 (to be split among authors if there is more than one), as well as a 1-year membership for the Surveillance Studies Network (SSN), which provides benefits including discounts on all SSN-sponsored conferences and events. The winner/s will be announced in late 2020 and will be honored at the 2021 SSN conference, if possible.
Using the subject heading “SSN Book Award 2020,” please email the committee chair, Philip J. Boyle (pjboyle@uwaterloo.ca) to nominate a book. Please include the title of the book, year of publication, author, publishing house, and a paragraph of no more than 250 words detailing specifics about why thisbook would be suitable for the award.
The deadline for receipt of books from the publisher is September 30th, 2020. A copy of the book must be sent to each member of the prize committee (addresses will be provided). Hard copies are preferred where possible. Please note that books will not be returned.
SSN Book Award Committee Members:
- Philip J. Boyle, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology & Legal Studies, University of Waterloo
- Julia Chan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cinema & Media Arts, York University
- Greg Wise, Professor of Communication Studies and Social Technology, Arizona State University
