News from the Annenberg School for Communication
July 15, 2013
In this issue:
Annenberg students make a big impact at ICA annual conference
An impressive 27 Annenberg doctoral students, over one third of the entire Annenberg student body, presented their research at the annual International Communication Association meeting in London.
Nine students, more than in any other program, garnered ten major awards for their work.
Each year the ICA recognizes the best overall paper presented in each of the association’s divisions. Four ASC students -- Nora Draper, Sandra Ristovska, Piotr Szpunar, and Kate Zambon – won these prestigious awards. It is a remarkable accomplishment, given that the awards are open to all presenters, including faculty. Special congratulations go to Mr. Szpunar, who won the best paper award from the ICA Popular Communication Division for the third time in four years!
In addition, Annenberg doctoral students Omar Al-Ghazzi and Nicholas Gilewicz took home the best student paper awards from the Journalism Studies and the Philosophy, Theory & Critique Divisions respectively. Mr. Gilewicz also received an ICA travel grant along with fellow students Jin Woo Kim, Gretta Moody, and Sijia Yang. These competitive travel awards are given to students whose research papers are deemed especially noteworthy.
“The number and quality of our students’ presentations, as well as the recognition they received from our peers through these numerous awards, is impressive but not surprising,” says Joseph Turow, Ph.D., the Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies. “It all speaks volumes about both our students’ abilities and the quality of the education and mentoring they receive at the Penn Annenberg School.”
ICA is one of the central organizations of our field. Annenberg has a longstanding relationship with ICA that goes back over 40 years. Many Annenberg faculty members are former presidents and/or ICA Fellows. Presenting research at an important conference like ICA is a significant and exciting part of an Annenberg doctoral student’s educational journey.
Below is the full list of our graduate student ICA award-winners, with links to descriptions of their papers. Congratulations to all of them!
ANNENBERG ICA AWARD RECIPIENTS
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Omar Al-Ghazzi
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Top Student Paper |
De-Westernizing New Media Discourse: The Case of Citizen Journalism in the Arab World |
Nora Draper
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Top Paper: Communication Law and Policy Division |
The New Reputation Custodians: Repositioning Individuals as the Guardians of Their Online Reputation |
Nicholas Gilewicz
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Top Student Paper/Travel Grant |
Digital Parrhesia: Towards a New Ethical and Reflective Framework for Digital Communication |
Jin Woo Kim
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Travel Grant |
Fully Considered Healthcare Policy Preferences and Deliberation Effects on Opinion Change |
Gretta Moody
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Travel Award |
Vloggers and the “Black” Label: Audience Understandings of “Black” Media in the Digital Age |
Sandra Ristovska
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Best Paper |
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Piotr Szpunar
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Top Paper |
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Sijia Yang
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Travel Grant |
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Kate Zambon
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Top Paper |
The Spatial Production of the Civic Nation: Berlin’s World Cup Flag Fight |
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