[ecrea] Call for Nominations - 2012 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award

Call for Nominations

2012 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award

Urban Communication Foundation

Deadline: April 15, 2012

This year's Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award recognizes an 
outstanding book that exhibits excellence in addressing issues of urban 
communication. It is named in honor of the late social activist and 
author of /The Death and Life of Great American Cities/. All entries 
must be published between 2008 and 2012. The book award brings with it a 
$500 prize.

The award will be presented at the Annual Convention of the National 
Communication Association in Orlando, Florida in November 2012. Author 
and/or publisher presence at the award ceremony is strongly encouraged. 
(Note: Although the award ceremony is in the USA, this is a global award 
and we welcome nominations from books published outside the USA as well).

To nominate a book, please send a short letter of nomination or 
self-nomination (in the form of an email attachment) to Timothy Gibson, 
chair of the Jane Jacobs Book Award review committee, at the email 
address below by *April 15, 2012*. The letter of nomination should 
describe the book and explain how it addresses issues central to the 
field of urban communication. Finalists (or their publishers) will be 
asked to send three copies of the book to the award committee. For more 
information on the field of urban communication, and to determine if 
your nomination fits the Award call, please visit the Urban 
Communication Foundation website at http://urbancomm.org/whatwedo.php.

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*Timothy Gibson*

*Department of Communication*

*Mail Stop 3D6*

*George** Mason University***

*Fairfax**, VA 22030 (USA)*

*email: (tgibson1 /at/ gmu.edu)*