Past award winners

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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