Top Faculty Paper
2022
Allison Kwesell (Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University): Photographs and COVID-19: The Therapeutic Quality of Shared Narratives and Collective Memory
2021
Tommaso Trillò, et al., (The Hebrew U of Jerusalem): ‘What Does #Freedom Look Like? Instagram and the Visual Imagination of Values’
2020
Regina Marchi (Rutgers): Meaningful Properties: Bathtub Madonnas as Media in an Italian-American Neighborhood in Transition.
2019
Cornelia Brantner, Daniel Pfurtscheller, and Katharina Lobinger (IWAF Institute for Knowledge Communication and Applied Research): “People Only Share Videos They Find Entertaining or Funny.” Rightwing Populism, Humor and the Fictionalization of Politics. A Case Study on the Austrian Freedom Party’s 2017 Online Election Campaign Videos.
2018
Katharina Lobinger (USI – U della Svizzera italiana), Benjamin Kramer (LMU Munich), Eleonora Benecchi (Università della Svizzera italiana), and Rebecca Venema (Università della Svizzera italiana, Institute for Communication Technologies (ITC))
Top Student-Led Paper
2022
Yi Xu (Technische Universität Ilmenau): Portraying the pandemic: Analysis of textual-visual frames in German news coverage of COVID-19 on Twitter
2021
Kathryn Higgins (London School of Economics and Political Science): Through the Kaleidoscope: News Images, Vantage Points and the Mediated Time-Space of Crime Events
2020
Marie Fioureaux & Baldwin Van Gorp (KU Leuven): Cartoons as Bridge Builders: Dialogues on Radicalization with the ‘Suspect Community’
Top Poster / Interactive Paper
2019
Yu Ma (University of Copenhagen): Film Aesthetics of Circular Frame: A Case Study of Film “I am not Madame Bovary”.
2018
Anna-Maria Volpers
Top Student Paper(s)
2021
Michael Kim (U of Miami): Post-Humanitarian Audiences: Audiences’ Responses to Post-Humanitarian Communication
Alex Scott (U of Texas at Austin): Expanding the Visual Paradigm: Importing the Visual Ideograph into Framing Research
2020
Jasmine Gray (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Life Plotting: A Self-Conceptualization Process.
Yuchen Liu & John Watson. (University of Kansas): Meme(bership) Cost: #JustDoIt: A Thematic Study of Internet Memes Following Nike’s Colin Kaepernick Ad
2019
- Hanna Morris (University of Pennsylvania): Aesthetic Disruptions in Everyday Life: Resolving the Contradictions of a Cosmopolitan Ideal in Contemporary Berlin
- Xuelian He (Georgia State University): Spectator Multitude: The Epitomization of Reddit Place
- Rebecca Venema (UniversitaÌ della Svizzera italiana): Visuals and Visibility in Networked Public Spheres: The 2017 G20 Protests, New Avenues of Policing and Implications for Visual Communication Research
2018
- Fan Liang (U of Michigan), Wei Chen (Information Technology Development Think-Tank, Hangzhou Dianzi U), and Li Cheng (Fudan U)
- Tali Aharoni (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
- T.J. Thomson (Missouri School of Journalism)
- Ally McCrow-Young (U of Copenhagen
Top Reviewer
2022
Giorgia Aiello (University of Leeds)
2021
Kareem El Damanhoury (University of Denver)
2020
Kyser Lough (University of Georgia)
2019
Allison Kwesell (Embry Riddle Aeronautical University)
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