Some highlights of ANN participants’ recent research-related honors and activities:
At the International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference in Boston, MA, at the end of May, two ANN alumni received awards for their dissertation work. Matthew Weber received the ICA Organizational
Communication Division’s Redding Dissertation Award for his dissertation, “From the New York Times to the Huffington Post: The Emergence and Transformation of Coevolving Forms of News Production.” Cuihua (Cindy) Shen received second-place for the ICA Communication and Technology Division’s Herbert S. Dordick Dissertation Award for her dissertation, “The Patterns, Effects and Evolution of Player Networks in Online Gaming Communities.” Also at the ICA Conference this May, Janet Fulk was elected ICA Fellow for her distinguished contributions to the field of communication.
This summer ANN participants will engage in several research programs of note. Martin Hilbert will attend the Santa Fe Institute’s annual Complex Systems Summer School, and Katya Ognyanova will attend the Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Program. Jaclyn Selby will be a summer fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington, DC, via funding through a COMPASS Fellowship, and will also attend the Annenberg Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute.






