Communication and the Future Division
Interest Group Awards
Listed here are awards given by the Interest Group to its members. Interests Groups are smaller communities within NCA's large membership that provide a range of resources including networking opportunities, Annual Convention programming, leadership opportunities, awards, and specialized information dissemination channels, among others.
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Top Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Andrew Gambino & Michael Schmierbach, “Great “Minds” Think Alike?: Examining Opinion Conformity in HCI and CMC” |
| 2023 | Qian Huang, Tyler R. Harrison, & Susan E. Morgan, “Representation and visibility of people of color in pro-HPV vaccination videos on social media” |
| 2023 | Sarah Katherine Lingo, “Simulation, Affect, and Embodiment at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center” |
| 2023 | Slavica Kodish, “The illusion of Freedom: Scientific and Technological Transformation of Humans” |
| 2023 | Myojung Chung, “What’s in the Black Box? How Algorithmic knowledge Predicts Corrective and Restrictive Actions to Counter Misinformation in the U.S., U.K., South Korea, and Mexico” |
| 2022 | Erik Holland, "Afrofuturist Film and the Re-presenting of Racial Time" |
| 2022 | Jihyun Kim, Kelly R. Merrill Jr., Xianlin Jin, Chad Christopher Collins, & Kun Xu, "I Trust My Robotic Health Advisor: Understanding People’s Trust and Intentions" |
| 2022 | L. Yong Jin Park, Jae Eun Chung, & Jeong Nam Kim, "Social media, misinformation future, and cultivating Covid-19 mistrust" |
| 2022 | Joshua Anderson & Natalie Brown Devlin, "The Shifting Foundations of Current Social Media Research and Systems Thinking as a Remedy: A Proposal for a New Research Agenda" |
| 2021 | Jihyun Kim, Kelly R. Merrill Jr., Kun Xu, & Stephanie Kelly, "Perceived Credibility of an AI Instructor in Online Education: The Role of Social Presence and Voice Features" |
| 2021 | Jihyun Kim, Kelly R. Merrill Jr. & Chad Christopher Collins, "Meet My AI Romantic Partner: The Role of Loneliness and Social Presence" |
| 2021 | L. Yong Jin Park, "Heuristics of Privacy Concern: Personal Data, Paradox, and Uncertainties in the Age of Digital Surveillance" |
| 2021 | Erik Gustafson & Robert Mejia, "A New Materialist and Media Ecological Analysis of the Entanglement of Voters and Voting Systems in Democratic Functions During the 2000 and 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections" |
| 2020 | Megan O'Byrne and Paulina Swiatkowski, "Bridging the Divide: Advancing a Social Work Theory in Communication Studies" |
| 2020 | Alessandra Von Burg, "Forced Mobility: Digital Nomads in Citizenship Deserts" |
| 2020 | Kelly Merrill Jr., Jihyun Kim, and Chad Collins, "Machines as Friends: The Role of Embodiment and Perceived Anthropomorphism of AI as a Companion" |
| 2019 | Renan Adachi, Gachon University, Hayeon Song, Gachon University, Emily M. Cramer, Howard University, "Using Virtual Reality for Travel Marketing: A Mediating Role of Self-Presence" |
| 2019 | Jing Wang, Tulane University, "Chinese Fin-techs in the Making: Apps, Product Managers, and the Platforms" |
| 2019 | Yong Jin Park, Howard University, Yoonmo Sang, University of Canberra, Hoon Lee, Kyunghee University, Mo Jones (Jang), Boston College, "Ontology of Digital Asset After Death: Policy Complexities, Suggestions, and Critique of Digital Platforms" |
| 2019 | Grant Kien, California State University East Bay, "Surviving Post-Truth Narrative and a Future Without Facts: The Unfortunate Triumph of Post-modernism" |
| 2018 | Rebecca K. Britt and Andrew Englebert, "Building and testing an mHealth application from a pilot study in a campus-community initiative" |
| 2018 | Robert Mejia, Brianna L. Lane, Abigail Mott, and Kelsey Earle, "Netflix and Chill or Looking for a Soulmate? The Effect of Online Dating Website and Profile Deisgn on Attraction" |
| 2018 | Jihyun Kim, Kelly Merrill, Jr., and Hayeon Song, "Probing with Pokemon: Feeling of Presence and Sense of Community Belonging" |
| 2018 | Jonathan Matusitz and John McCormick, "The Effects of Internet Use on Human Obesity in the U.S." |
| 2016 | Kenneth A. Lachlan, Patric R. Spence, Adam Michael Rainear, Joshua Fishlock, Zhan Xu, and Bryan Michael Vanco, “Exploring the Effectiveness of Robotic Platforms in Engendering Learning: Implications for the Future of Crisis and Risk Communication” |
| 2016 | Veronica Hefner, Sam Dorros, Nicole Jourdain, Christine Liu, Arianna Tortomasi, Maria Paulina Greene, Chelsea Brandom, Mary Ellet, and Natalie Bowles, “Mobile Exercising and Tweeting the Pounds Away: The Use of Digital Applications and Microblogging and Their Association with Disordered Eating and Compulsive Exercise” |
| 2016 | Yu Won Oh, “Online Talk as Civic Engagement and Online Forums as Digital Public Sphere” |
| 2016 | Chris Gurrie, “The Future of Mediated Software Technology in the Communication Classroom: An Analysis” |
| 2016 | Jennifer Young Abbott, “The Lessons of Yesterday’s Public Journalism for Tomorrow’s Citizen-Engaged Journalism” |
| 2015 | Bree McEwan, “Communication competence is the future of digital literacy” |
| 2015 | Tony Liao, “Embracing Opportunities: Studying the Shift from Consumer Augmented Reality to Industrial/Enterprise Augmented Reality” |
| 2015 | Rebecca K. Britt, “Participation on celebrity gossip blogs: A study of celebrity attitudes and gratifications” |
| 2015 | Alison Nicole Novak, “Smartest Guys in the Room: Framing the Future of Media Regulation through Netflix” |
| 2015 | Young Jin Park and S. Mo Jang, “Will Anyone Talk about Edward Snowden Again? Twitter Conversation, Herd and Issue Attention” |
| 2014 | Jonathan Matusitz and Ann Davidson, “Race of the Future: Mixing of Colors in the U.S. Leading to One Race?” |
| 2014 | CarrieLynn Reinhard, and Pooky Amsterdam, “Avatars, Audiences and Interactive Television: Television productions in Second Life exemplifying the possibilities of interactive television” |
| 2014 | Aimee Lau, “Facebook as a Facilitator of Organizational Identification inColleges and Universities and with Multiple Organizational Targets” |
| 2014 | Jaime Banks, “Multimodal, multiplex, multispatial: A network model of the Self” |
| 2014 | Rebecca K. Britt and Andrew Mark Englebert, “Building on a Legacy in Researchers’ Understanding of Spatial Cognition: A Qualitative Investigation on Spatial Awareness and Mental Map Construction in Mobile Tours” |
| 2013 | Tony Liao, “Mobile or Headworn Augmented Reality? Analyzing the Contestation Over the Form of Augmented Reality through Future Discourse and Technological Frames” |
| 2013 | Rebecca Britt and Brian Britt, “Narrative Believability in Mobile Tour Guides: A Mixed Methods Study” |
| 2013 | Cui Zhang and Charles Meadows, “The Future of Internet-Related Research in Health Communication Scholarship: Based on an Analysis of Published Articles between 1997 and 2011” |
| 2013 | Lorraine G. Kisselburgh, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Jeremy Foote, Patricia Gettings, Teis Moeller Kristensen, Karthik Ramani, “The social ecologies of collaborative design in Visually Integrated Cyber-enabled Design (V-ICED) Environments” |
| 2012 | Jeremy Adolphson, “Artificial Intelligence: The Problem within Discourse Analysis” |
| 2012 | Aubrie Serena Adams, “The Nature of Gameplay within the Academic Environment” |
| 2012 | Tony Liao, “Augmented Futures: A Classification of Augmented Reality Promise(s) and Ideographes” |
| 2012 | Jonathan Matusitz, “Benefits of Google Technologies for Organizations” |
Top Student Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Vishala J Persad, “A Post-modern Surveillance Culture: A Simulacra of Self-Importance” |
| 2023 | Joshua Anderson, “A Proposal of a Theory to Study the Dynamics of Situated Communication Phenomena for Social Change” |
| 2023 | Jiaqi Liu, “To be Free or Kidnapped? Understanding the Dark Side of Quantified-Self from a Perspective of Dependence” |
| 2023 | Chelsea Lynn Roe, “Are we human?” Artificial Intelligence, postcolonialism, and what it means to be human” |
| 2022 | Annette Masterson & Andrew Iliadis, "Inviting sex robots into the bedroom: An institutional analysis of a changing industry" |
| 2022 | Chelsea P. Butkowski & Lee Humphreys, "IoT as Mobile Infrastructure: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities" |
| 2022 | John M. Wise, "Omnimaginary: Mapping the Future of Science, Technology, and Human Potential in Early Omni Magazines" |
| 2022 | Alex W. Kirkpatrick, Amanda Boyd, & Jay Hmielowski, "Who Shares about AI? Media-system dependency, online information sharing and the public understanding of artificial intelligence" |
| 2021 | Matthew Vollmer, "Autonomous Vehicles in the News After the Death of Elaine Herzberg" |
| 2021 | Brandon Shanks, "Live Social Interaction on Twitch.tv: An Analysis of Twitch.tv as a Shift in Media Industries" |
| 2021 | Akie Fukushige Wenk, "In Rhetorical Sense(s): Exploration of Difference Reflected through Black Mirror Autonomous Vehicles in the News After the Death of Elaine Herzberg" |
| 2021 | Joo-Wha Hong, "Validation of the new scale for measuring perceptions of machines as society members: Machines As Social Entities Scale (MASES)" |
| 2020 | Lindsay Thompson, "Augmenting Human: Artificial Intelligence as a Second Self through AlterEgo Technology" |
| 2020 | Andrea Schaaf, "Tilt Brush: The Utilization of a Virtual Reality Intervention for Self-Reported Anxiety, Depression, and Stress" |
| 2020 | Lakelyn Taylor, "We’re Expecting Some Turbulence: Extending Communication Privacy Management Theory to the Crossroads of Turbulence and Crisis" |
| 2020 | Joo- Wha Hong, "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Inquiry into the Social Roles and the Power Dynamics in Human-AI Interactions" |
| 2019 | Curry Chandler, University of Pittsburgh, Driving into the Future while Looking in the Rearview Mirror: Innovation Communication, Transportation Policy Mobilities, and Uber Urbanism |
| 2019 | Rian E. Wanstreet, University of Washington, A World Without Farmers: Surviving the Big Data Agricultural Revolution |
| 2019 | Joe E. Hatfield, University of Colorado, Boulder, The Digital Rhetorical Field: Methodological Possibilities for the Future of Communication |
| 2019 | Julia M. Hildebrand, Eckerd College, Dancing with My Drone: Affective Entanglements and Mobile Companionship |
| 2018 | Beatriz Nieto Fernandez, "El Chiguire Bipolar as a Tool for Resistance: Humor and Play in the times of Crisis" |
| 2018 | Maxim V. Baryshevtsev, "Automated Thematic Analysis of Online Sexual Predator Chat Transcripts" |
| 2018 | Samantha Dols, "An Alternative Paradigm for Integration: Imagination, Immersion, and Intergroup Understanding |
| 2018 | Adam Michael Rainear, "All the Media are Rich: Exploring the Lacking Human Element in Media Richness Theory" |
| 2016 | Kelsey Waninger, “Creating a New World: Woman on the Edge of Time and the Use of Technē in Feminist Speculative Fiction” |
| 2016 | Amin Makkawy, “Disability as Critical Sociomaterial Praxis, Providing a Novel Theoretical Space to Understand Disability: The Collision of Body, Communication, and Technology” |
| 2016 | Jennifer Kang, “Parainteractivity Strategies in My Little Television: The Convergence of Internet Broadcasting and Television in South Korea” |
| 2016 | Brad A. Haggadone, “Sex, Fear, and Robots: Does the Uncanny Valley extend beyond appearance?” |
| 2016 | Sean P. Gleason, “Technology and the Not-so-Stable Body: “Being There” in the Cyborg’s Dilemma” |
| 2015 | T. Kody Frey, “#BlackTwitter: An Analysis of Social Sentiment in Temporarily Imagined Online Communities” |
| 2015 | Brad A. Haggadone, “Sharing is Caring: Motivations for knowledge sharing in digital communities of emergent technology” |
| 2015 | Nazmul K. Rony and Rahnuma Ahmed “Sharing Viral Video Advertising: Building Theoretical Framework for the New Media Communication” |
| 2015 | Alane L. Presswood “Simulation in the 21st Century: Putting Facebook and Hyperreality in Conversation” |
| 2015 | Darren M. Stevenson, “Surveillance and Persuasion as Emerging Co-Benefactors of Communication Studies” |
| 2014 | Minhee Son, “Migration and Mobile Communication Research: A Review of the Current Literature and Suggested Direction for the Future” |
| 2014 | Indira Neill Hoch, “‘Hide all the things’: Content and conduct control in Tumblr fandom tags” |
| 2014 | Meagan Foley, “Kickstarter and Fan Participation” |
| 2014 | Mary Grace Hebert, “The Rebirth of Democratic Knowledge: Digitization, the Postal Service, and the newspaper industry” |
| 2014 | Robb Conrad Lauzon, “'Good night, planet Earth. Good night, humanity': A Eulogy for a Lunar Rover” |