Hello all,

I’d like to forward along this call for awards. We would love to have 
liberation technology scholars apply! Feel free to contact me with any 
questions.


Labor Tech Research Network <http://labortechresearchnetwork.org/> (LaborTech) 
invites submissions for the Labor Tech Book and Graduate Student Paper Awards.  
LaborTech is an interdisciplinary and transnational group of experts concerned 
with the intersection of where technology meets work.  We aim to reframe the 
conversation 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 inter-disciplinary, 
cross-regional, and community-oriented space for discussion, collaboration, and 
empowerment.

As part of our launch as a nonprofit research network, LaborTech is 
inaugurating two Awards, one for Book and another for Graduate Student Paper, 
to honor works which have distinctive intellectual merit or activist impact, 
and have advanced the knowledge about labor and technology in the global 
society.  We invite submissions that address our core focus on labor and 
technology, and which may simultaneously address feminism, anti-racism, and/or 
transnationalism.  Please see our website (www.labortechresearchnetwork.org 
<http://www.labortechresearchnetwork.org/>) for a deeper discussion of our 
Mission (in About Us page), and examples of topics in our decade-long Speaker 
Series.

LaborTech Award Committees will evaluate nominations on their contributions to, 
and impact on, studying the intersections of technology and labor.  A small 
cash prize and certificate will be awarded to the winners.  The winners will be 
announced in December of 2022 at the LaborTech Launch Event, at the Annual 
Meeting of the Society for Social Study of Science (4S) in Mexico.

Submission Requirements for Both Awards:
Works from all disciplines and methodologies are eligible for nomination. 
Nominations are open to members of Labor Tech Research Network, as well as the 
broader scholarly community.  Nominations are welcome from authors, publishers, 
as well as self-nominations.  We encourage submissions from women, people of 
color, queer communities, and those from the global south.

The deadline for submissions is August 1, 2022. Please submit the following 
items in English: 1) an electronic version in PDF format (for books, if only 
print form is available, please contact us), and 2) a one-page nomination 
letter stating the significance and contribution of the work.  Send materials 
or any questions to [email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]>

Book Award Requirements:
- Monographs only (no edited volumes or anthologies)
- Multiple authors are accepted
- Published in the last three years, 2020-2022

Graduate Student Paper Award Requirements:
The Graduate Student Paper Award is meant to honor labor and technology 
scholars in their early careers as students.  The criteria for submissions 
include the following.
- Writings by students who are currently in masters or doctoral programs, or 
who are graduating this year in 2022
- Single-authored pieces are preferred, but co-authors with other students are 
also accepted.  Writings that are co-authored with advisors or other PhDs are 
not accepted.
- Papers may be theoretical and/or empirical, as long as they have an original 
argument.  A variety of methodological and research styles are welcome.
- Papers may be published or unpublished.  If published, then dating to the 
last three years, 2020-2022
- Minimum 25 pages, maximum 40 pages, double spaced

Winnie Poster
_______________________________________
Dr. Winifred R. Poster (she/hers)
http://www.winifredposter.com/ <http://www.winifredposter.com/>
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>; [email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]>
Series Editor, MIT Press, Labor and Technology 
<https://www.katiehelke-editor.com/labor-and-technology>
Adjunct Faculty, International Affairs 
<https://ucollege.wustl.edu/faculty-international-affairs>, Washington 
University St. Louis

Announcing the launch of Labor Tech Research Network 
<http://www.labortechresearchnetwork.org/>, for which I am Director.  Check us 
out and support our GoFundMe 
<https://www.gofundme.com/f/labortech-research-network> !

Latest publication: Striking by Telegraph, Avatar, and Geotag: Changing ICT 
Landscapes of Virtual Protest 
<https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/16529/3571>, International 
Journal of Communication

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