Each year, ICA gives monetary awards to the top three entries for the Interactive Scholar to Scholar Paper/Poster Session. The committee that determines the recipients include three members of the Executive Committee from ICA. This year, Sonia Livingstone, Ron Rice, and Wolfgang Donsbach had the pleasure of participating on this committee. I would like to give a special thanks to Barbie Zelizer for coordinating this award committe.
The criteria for this award included significance for the field strength of conceptualization and method, data analysis (or equivalent) and interpretation, and finally, style and presentation. The first three of these criteria were assessed ahead of time because the committee read all of the top ranked papers that had been submitted from divisions/interest groups for the Scholar to Scholar session. The fourth criteria, style and presentation, was assessed during the poster session. The 1st place award recipient receives $500, the 2nd place award recipient receives $250 and the 3rd place award recipient receives $100. I am pleased to report the recipients of these awards:
1st Place: Experimental Evidence of the Knowledge Gap: Message Arousal, Motivation, and Time Delay
Maria Elizabeth Grabe, Indiana U, USA
Narine S. Yegiyan, Indiana U, USA
Rasha Kamhawi, U of Florida, USA
2nd Place: Defoe's London: The Emerging Bourgeois Public Sphere and the Changing World of an English Merchant
Juraj Kittler, Pennsylvania State U, USA
3rd Place: Leni-Riefenstahlization of U.S. Politics? The Visual Legacy of the Bush Administration - A View From Abroad
Marion G. Mueller, Jacobs U - Bremen, GERMANY
Carola Betzold, Jacobs U - Bremen, GERMANY
Friedrich Kauder, Jacobs U - Bremen, GERMANY
Johannes Loh, Jacobs U - Bremen, GERMANY
In addition, we introduced a new award this year, the Best Visual Display Award, which was designed by our 2008 President-Elect-Select Barbie Zelizer. This award was designed to look at all of the posters in the Scholar to Scholar session with regard to aesthetic appeal and display of research. The committee was composed of Patrice Buzzanell, Purdue University; Karin Becker, Stockholm University; and Gianpietro Mazzoleni, University of Milan.
The criteria for this award included clarity, flow between sections, relationship of text to image, and visual appeal. The recipient of this award receives $100. The recipient of this award for the 2008 ICA Conference is:
Best Visual Display: "I Didn't Do Anything Important": A Pragmatist Analysis of the Oral History Interview
Kathleen M. Ryan, U of Oregon
I'd like to extend my appreciation for all of our Scholar to Scholar participants for 2008!
