Communication professors Janet Fulk and Peter Monge, along with Annenberg Ph.D. graduate Y. Connie Yuan, won the 2009 Dennis Gouran Research Award in Group Communication from the National Communication Association for the best published article of the year. “Connective and Communal Transactive Memory Systems,” published in Communication Research is an article about empirical study of teams from around the globe.

The article is an empirical study of teams from around the globe.  The research assessed how individuals in teams make choices about when to seek and share information with teammates through direct communication with each other versus using shared databases for acquiring or sharing information.  The research was based in an integration of three theories:  social influence, public goods, and transactive memory. Yuan now serves on the faculty of Cornell University.