Annenberg Scholars Honored at the 2024 ICA Conference in Australia

Eleven members of the Annenberg community received awards for their scholarship.

The shoreline of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia — Gold Coast, Australia

At the 74th annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference, held from June 20-24 in Gold Coast, Australia, numerous Annenberg School for Communication faculty and students were honored with divisional awards.

Professor Guobin Yang received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chinese Communication Association in honor of his extensive contributions to scholarship on Chinese communication.

Guobin Yang receives an award at an award ceremony — Professor Guobin Yang receives the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chinese Communication Association at ICA 2024

The following Annenberg students and faculty received top paper, poster, or reviewer awards at the conference:

Doctoral Student Nidah Mohammed, Professor David Lydon-Staley, Research Director Yoona Kang, Research Director Danielle Cosme, and Professor Emily Falk were awarded the Top Paper Award from the Communication Science and Biology Division for “Profiles of Daily Positive Emotion Dynamics and Associations with Flourishing"
Doctoral Candidate Louisa Lincoln was awarded the Top Student Paper Award from the Journalism Studies Division for “‘A Hard Road With Personal Costs’: How Digital-First Nonprofit News Founders Navigate Precarity”
Doctoral Student Valentina Proust was awarded the Top Student Paper Award from the Communication and History Division for "Beyond the Void: Reckoning with the disappeared detainees in Chile's collective memory"
Doctoral Student Sara Reinis was awarded the Top Student Paper Award from the Popular Media and Culture Division for “TikTok Is One Long Conversation With the Universe: Manifestation Content on TikTok and How Platform Affordances Shape Emerging Spirituality”
Doctoral Student Benjamin Muzakari was awarded the “Rock Star Reviewer” award from the Communication Science and Biology Division for his outstanding work as a submission reviewer.
Doctoral Student Liz Hallgren won second place for the Top Student Paper Award from the Popular Media and Culture Division for “Seen To Be Grieved: Queen Elizabeth II’s Death and the Unsettlement of the Modern Media Event”