Professor Mohamed Zayani Wins Book Award from the NCA

Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) Professor Mohamed Zayani has been awarded the 2017 Sue DeWine Distinguished Scholarly Book Award from the National Communication Association (NCA) for his book Networked Publics and Digital Contention (Oxford University Press, 2015).  

The book prize is awarded by the Applied Communication Division of the NCA, and honors a book that makes significant contributions to applied communication theory and research. The award will be conferred at the NCA’s 103rd annual convention, which will be held this year in Dallas, Texas.  

The accolade is the fourth prize Zayani’s book reaped. The scholar was previously awarded the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Book Award from the American Sociological Association, the Global Communication and Social Change Best Book Award from the International Communication Association, and the Toyin Falola Book Award from the Association of the Global South Studies.

Networked Publics and Digital Contention is part of the Oxford studies in digital politics series. “That Mohamed Zayani’s book won multiple awards, from different associations, attests not just to the impact of his work, but also its breadth,” said Oxford University Press editor Angela Chnapko. “It is a great achievement.”

Manuel Castells, Wallis Annenberg Chair of Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California, described Zayani’s book as “a major contribution to the understanding of social movements of the digital age.”

Zayani’s forthcoming book Digital Middle East: State and Society in the Information Age, also by Oxford University Press, will be released in 2018.