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Applied or Pub Policy Research Award Winners 2009 - Steven R. Corman, Arizona State U
Reason Won:
"Corman and his group of interdisciplinary collaborators have conducted impressive research since 2005 that applies knowledge of human communication in an effort to counter ideological support for terrorism," said the Outstanding Applied/Public Policy Award Subcommittee of the ICA Awards Committee. "Their recent book, entitled Weapons of Mass Persuasion: Strategic Communication to Combat Violent Extremism, offers analysis and policy recommendations that have been praised as valuable scholarship by leaders at the U.S. Department of State and in the U.S. military.

"Corman’s research employs diverse aspects of communication theory and research to address a significant social issue," the subcommittee added, "and thus reflects the highest traditions of this award."
B. Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award Winners 2009 - Brant R. Burleson, Purdue U
Reason Won:
"Brant Burleson is clearly an outstanding mentor to his students as he guides them through graduate school and helps them to establish themselves as researchers, teachers, and influential members of the discipline of Communication," said Sandi Smith, Chair of the Fisher Mentorship Award Committee. "His former students are successful faculty members at fine institutions such as Purdue University, UNC-Chapel Hill, UC-Davis, University of Minnesota, University of Kansas, University of Delaware, Michigan State University, and Louisiana State University.

"He has also furthered the interests of graduate students across the discipline through his work on their behalf in our professional associations," Smith added. "Brant R. Burleson richly deserves the B. Aubrey Fisher Mentor Award in honor of his service to graduate students."
Communication Research as Agent of Change Award Winners 2009 - Rohan Samarajiva, LIRNEasia
Reason Won:
"Dr. Rohan Samarajiva has co-edited a volume, ICT Infrastructure in Emerging Asia: Policy and Regulatory Roadblocks, that exemplifies the intention of this award, i.e., to show ways in which significant engagement with research can influence communication change," said the CRAC subcommittee of the ICA Research Awards Committee in selecting Samarajiva. "This work highlights a very important but often under researched region focusing on five Asian countries: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

"A central thread underpinning all the viewpoints provided in the book is that technology by itself cannot improve access to ICTs; policy and regulatory reform is critical," the subcommittee added. "In providing data that challenges the vested and frequently dysfunctional interests which have underpinned past and present governance structures this important research becomes in itself a significant marker of ways to work towards policy and regulatory reform."
Communication Research as Collaborative Practice 2009 - Arvind Singhal, U of Texas - El Paso
Reason Won:
"Professor Singhal has amassed a distinguished record of collaborative scholarship over the past decades... [that] has been admirably collaborative in several ways," said the CRCP subcommittee of the ICA Research Awards Committee in selecting Singhal. "He has worked sedulously as a co-author on many research reports; he has been developing a theoretical stance to this research which requires collaborative efforts not only between members of research teams but between a research team and local communities.

"Further, this stance has not just been asserted in general, but applied in the methodology of several research projects," the subcommittee added. "The latter engages people in their home communities and asks what their sense of things are, and for Singhal and his collaborators this focuses on issues of health, among various other social issues."
Communication Research as Open Field Award Winners 2009 - Elizabeth Bird, U of South Florida
Reason Won:
"Elizabeth Bird was chosen to receive the Communication Research as an Open Field Award for 2009," said the CROF subcommittee of the ICA Research Awards Committee, "because the committee appreciates the extent to which her work bridging anthropology and communication has not only brought the two disciplines together, but also had an impact within each discipline. Her oeuvre is strong and rich.

"Each book takes a significant step forward intellectually, and each has influenced the research approaches and programs of others," the subcommittee added. "Finally, we believe she is deserving of the award because the quality of her work has increased the standing of qualitative research within communication."
Fellows Book Award Winners 2009 - Joseph N. Cappella, U of Pennsylvania
  • Spriral of Cynicism: The Press and the Public Good
         Published in 1997 by Oxford U P
    • 2009 - Kathleen Hall Jamieson, U of Pennsylvania
  • Spiral of Cynicism: The Press and the Public Good
         Published in 1997 by Oxford U P
    Reason Won:
    At the time of its publication, Spiral of Cynicism was immediately hailed as a landmark study and a model of research for students of politics and media. "It merits a broad audience among politicians, journalists, and engaged citizens, and it promises to be an invaluable text in undergraduate and graduate courses," said the review in the Harvard International Journal of Press and Politics.

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    Outstanding Article Award Winners 2009 - Boris H. J. M. Brummans, U of Montreal
    Making Sense of Intractable Multiparty Conflict: A Study of Framing in Four Environmental Disputes     by Communication Monographs
    Co-Authors:Linda Putnam, U of California- Santa Barbara
    Barbara Gray, Pennsylvania State U
    Ralph Hanke, Bowling Green State U
    Roy Lewicki, Ohio State U
    Carolyn Wiethoff, Indiana U

    Reason Won:
    "‘Making Sense of Intractable Multiparty conflict’ used a mixed-method approach to investigate the use of framing repertoires in disputes," said the Outstanding Article Award Subcommittee of the ICA Research Awards Committee. "This high quality research represents what one nominator called ‘a model of engaged scholarship’ in that researchers were concerned with creating findings that could have wide applicability in dispute resolution.

    "Our committee observed that the scholarship was particularly strong in argument development, in the elegant way it integrated qualitative and quantitative methods, and in the ways it attended not only to the behavioral aspects of human conflict but also to the affective," the Subcommittee added. "We believe the article takes its place among the classic work in our field, leading the way in showing how conflict at both interpersonal and group levels might be studied with respect to communication."
    Outstanding Book Award Winners 2009 - Tarleton L. Gillespie, Cornell U
  • Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture by MIT Press
    Reason Won:
    "Gillespie convincingly shows that the current debate over digital rights has been largely one sided," said the Outstanding Book Award Subcommittee of the ICA Research Awards Committee, "with the corporations that stand to profit gaining increasing control over the law and increasing sophistication in "wiring shut" the technology by incorporating hard-wired schemes to limit copying.

    "As one nominator stated, ‘Thanks to his exceptionally thorough research, his fluency with the traditions of legal, technological and media scholarship, and his lively prose style, Gillespie has created a model of digital-era communication analysis," the subcommittee added.

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    Steve Chaffee Career Productivity Award Winners 2009 - Annie Lang, Indiana U
    Reason Won:
    "Annie Lang has sustained a significant line of work for 20 years that has made an important contribution to our understanding of media effects," said the Chaffee Award Subcommittee of the ICA Research Awards Committee. "Her work has also had significant implications for the design of media messages. Further, it has introduced new methods for inquiry in the area.

    "She has a strong and sustained publication record in top general and specialist journals in our field," the subcommittee added. "She is an ICA Fellow and has won many ICA top paper and other awards. It is clear that she has influenced many other scholars, both students and colleagues, and younger scholars are continuing from the base she has laid down. Overall, she is an outstanding scholar and meets all the criteria for the Chaffee Award."
    Young Scholar Award Winners 2009 - Jochen Peter, U of Amsterdam
    Reason Won:
    "Dr. Jochen Peter is one of the most talented young communication scholars worldwide," wrote Claes de Vreese, chair of the Young Scholar Award Subcommittee of the ICA Research Awards Committee. "His resumé counts 41 peer-reviewed articles most of which have appeared in top-cited communication and psychology journals.

    "The quality of Jochen Peter’s publications has been recognized by no fewer than 17 awards," de Vreese added. "In 2005, he received the prestigious and highly competitive VENI-grant for talented young academics from the Dutch Science foundation. This grant has enabled him to develop his own research line and has resulted in 27 published articles in the past four years."
    		 
     
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