The 73rd Annual ICA Conference provided the Association and its members with an opportunity to celebrate excellence in the field by granting various awards. Congratulations to all the winners and our sincere gratitude to all the members of the various ICA awards committees, who do tremendous work each year to select each of these recipients. A special thank you to our Research Awards Committee Chair, Travis Dixon (U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), for his hard work pulling all of these awards together.
Fellows Book Award
Award Recipient: Pablo J. Boczkowski (Northwestern U)
"Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers"
(Committee: Chair: Francois Heinderyckx (chair) , Members: Patrice Buzzanell, Mohan Dutta, Andrea Hollingshead, Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Jack Qiu)
ICA Outstanding Article Award
Award Recipients :Jesse Fox (The Ohio State U), Katy E. Pearce ( U of Washington), Adrienne L. Massanari (U of Illinois at Chicago), Julius Matthew Riles (U of Missouri, Columbia) , Łukasz Szulc (U of Sheffield,) , Yerina S. Ranjit (U of Missouri) , Filippo Trevisan (American U) , Cheryll Ruth R. Soriano(De La Salle U) , Jessica Vitak (U of Maryland) , Payal Arora (Erasmus U Rotterdam) , Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn (U of Georgia), Meryl Alper (Northeastern U), Andrew Gambino (The Pennsylvania State U), Carmen Gonzalez (U of Washington) , Teresa Lynch(The Ohio State U,), Lillie D. Williamson (U of Wisconsin-Madison), & Amy L. Gonzales (U of California)
"Open Science, Closed Doors? Countering Marginalization through an Agenda for Ethical, Inclusive Research in Communication"
(Committee: Chair: Devon Powers, Members: Ingrid Bachmann, Christoph Klimmt, Annaleen Meeus, Dajung Woo)
ICA Applied/Public Policy Research Award
Award Recipient: Christian Sandvig (U of Michigan), Esha Bhandari, American Civil Liberties Union (national headquarters), Karrie Karahalios, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Christo Wilson (Northeastern U), Rachel Goodman (American Civil Liberties Union (national headquarters)) and Alan Mislove(Northeastern U)
(Committee: Chair: Chun-ju Flora Hung-Baesecke, Members: Iccha Basnyat, Ronald L. Jackson II, May Lwin, Rajiv Rimal)
Outstanding Book Award
Award Recipient: Madhavi Murty (U of California, Santa Cruz)
"Stories that Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India "
(Committee: Chair:Hanan Badr, Sandra Braman , Jean Burgess , Radhika Gajjala , Rachel van der Merwe)
Early Career Scholar Award
Award Recipient: Neil Lewis Jr. (Cornell U)
(Committee: Chair: Isabel Molina-Guzmán , Members: Jonalou Labor , Bala Musa, Jessica Myrick, Cuihua "Cindy" Shen)
Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award
Award Recipient: Henry Jenkins (U of Southern California)
(Committee: Chair: Travis Dixon, Members: Svetlana Bodrunova, Paul Leonardi, Marlon Twyman, Steve Wilson)
Steve Chaffee Career Achievement Award
Award Recipient: Cynthia Stohl (U of California Santa Barbara)
(Committee: Chair: Meghan Sanders , Members: Paromita Pain, Marwan Kraidy, Barbara Pfetsch, K. "Vish" Viswanath)