[Commlist] LaborTech - fourth annual Book, Graduate Student Paper, and Social Justice Awards

Labor Tech Research Network (LaborTech) invites submissions for our 
fourth annual Book, Graduate Student Paper, and Social Justice Awards. 
Communication and Media Studies scholars are welcome to submit for the 
awards.


**About Us**

LaborTech (https://www.labortechresearchnetwork.org/ 
<https://www.labortechresearchnetwork.org/>) is an interdisciplinary and 
transnational group of over 700 experts concerned with the intersection 
of technology and labor. We aim to reframe conversations about 
technology and labor towards issues of power, inequality, and social 
justice, and incorporate themes of feminism, anti-racism, and 
transnationalism. We also seek to foster an interdisciplinary, 
cross-regional, and community-oriented space for discussion, 
collaboration, and empowerment. For a deeper discussion of our mission, 
please visit our webpage. For a list of our previous winners, _click 
here 
<https://labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards> (https://labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards 
<https://labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards>)_.


**Call for Nominations**
As part of our mission to promote scholarship and activism towards more 
equitable forms of labor and technology, LaborTech is announcing 
a call for three awards: Book, Graduate Student Paper, and Social 
Justice. These will honor projects which:

  * have distinctive intellectual merit or activist impact;
  * advance the knowledge about labor and technology in the global
    society; and
  * address our core focus on labor and technology and which may
    simultaneously address feminism, anti-racism, and/or transnationalism.

*/Eligibility*/:  Works from all disciplines and methodologies are 
eligible for nomination. Nominations are open to members and non-members 
of LaborTech.  We welcome self-nominations especially, but also 
nominations from publishers, colleagues, and others familiar with the 
projects.  We encourage submissions from women, people of color, queer 
communities, and those from the global south. LaborTech executive board 
members and committee chairs, as well as books published in our Labor 
and Technology series with MIT Press, are ineligible for these awards.

*/Prizes*/:  Winners receive a small cash award and a certificate (which 
we hope to expand further in years ahead, as we are still a growing 
nonprofit organization :). In addition, we offer our infrastructural 
supports at LaborTech to promote visibility of your projects:  by 
connecting with our globally dispersed expert members; by making a video 
of winners and distributing it both in and outside of our network to 
enhance public attention and exposure; and by creating a space and 
opportunity for sharing your work at out end of year virtual 
celebration. Winners will be announced in December.

*/Deadline and Contact*/:  The deadline for submissions is *June 1, 
2025.*  Send questions to (_labortechresearchnetwork /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(labortechresearchnetwork /at/ gmail.com)>_. See below for separate 
criteria and instructions for the various awards.

*CRITERIA AND SUBMISSION DETAILS*

**Book Award**

Criteria:

  * Monographs only (no edited volumes or anthologies)
  * Multiple authors accepted
  * Published in the last three years (2023-25).
  * If your book is not out by the deadline for this award, please send
    proofs from the manuscript and a letter from the press editor
    confirmation publication before the end of 2025.

Submission details:
Please submit the following items in English to 
(_labortechresearchnetwork /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(labortechresearchnetwork /at/ gmail.com)>_:

 1. An electronic version in PDF format (contact us if only print form
    is available for books)
 2. The author's contact email address
 3. A one-page nomination letter stating the significance and
    contribution of the work

*/*/Graduate Student Paper**

Criteria:

  * Written by students currently enrolled in a graduate program or who
    have graduated in 2024
  * Single-authored pieces are preferred, but co-authored pieces will be
    accepted with the above conditions in Submission Details
  * If a co-authored piece, _the first author must be a graduate student._
  * Papers may be published within the last three years (2023-25) or
    unpublished
  * Page length: 25-40 pages, double-spaced

Submission details:
Please submit the following items in English to 
(_labortechresearchnetwork /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(labortechresearchnetwork /at/ gmail.com)>_:

 1. Electronic version in PDF format
 2. The author's email address
 3. A one-page nomination letter stating:
     1. the significance and contribution of the work
     2. when the PhD was started and, if applicable, granted
     3. if the paper was published, then state when and in what journal
     4. if co-authored with faculty/advisors/other PhDs, please include
        a paragraph attesting to the student's dominant role in
        generating the paper (such as working on its theoretical
        components, doing the research, and writing it up). In addition,
        we ask that the cover letter is signed (digitally, or otherwise)
        by all co-authors, so that they are aware of this submission.

**Social Justice Award**

Criteria:

  * Those who are interfacing with technology in the course of their
    organizing, or who are organizing against inequitable technologies,
    in the context of labor, feminism, anti-racism, transnationalism
    struggles.  This may include:
      o tech workers
      o labor organizers, whether in unions or other workers' associations
      o feminist, immigrant, community, and ethnic rights activists
      o scholar-activists.  For this, we are not looking for purely
        academic work (i.e., scholars who are studying activism), but
        rather those who are participating in activism themselves, or
        who are promoting collaborations between activists and scholars.
      o people creating design alternatives for social justice, like
        engineers and designers   * Open to individuals, small groups, 
and if appropriate, organizations
  * Focus will be on a particular campaign or project that is done with
    the aim of social justice regarding labor and/or technology.  These
    projects may be broad (such as educating the public on a social
    justice issue) or specific (such as organizing a protest for higher
    wages).  They may use a variety of strategies (e.g., art, design,
    social media, marches and strikes, policy interventions, etc.).
    We'd like to honor activists who, through these projects, have
    developed novel approaches or who are pioneers in the fight for more
    equitable relations of technology and/or labor.


Submission details:

  *
    Fill out _this Google Form
 <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd2rjrKiOp6sUqRvSE5EIXcV5dGyibnky6V0bU5O2cnSqCFAw/viewform?usp=sharing> (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd2rjrKiOp6sUqRvSE5EIXcV5dGyibnky6V0bU5O2cnSqCFAw/viewform)_:
    It has a few short questions regarding the significance and
    contribution of your social justice activities
  * Answers to this form should be a *minimum 400 words each*, in order
    to give us enough understanding of the nominee's accomplishments.
    No single sentence answers please!
  * Please submit all items in English.  However, if you have a
    submission in another language, contact us and we'll attempt to find
    a translator in our group.


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