Musa Malik and Rene Weber received the Top Student Paper Award from the Communication and Social Cognition division at the 2024 National Communication Association for the following paper: “Seeing what we measure or measuring what we see? The content-analytic deconstruction of visual moral exemplification via unidimensional and multidimensional codebooks.”
Sovannie Len received a 2024 Top Student Paper Award from the Family Communication division of National Communication Association, for "Diverse Entertainment Media for Ethnic-Racial Socialization: An Initial Guide for Families"
This paper won both the Top Student Paper Award and Top Paper Award from the 2024 (Australia) ICA Computational Methods Division: Malik, M., Youk, S., Hopp, F. R., Curry, O. S., Cheong, M., Alfano, M., & Weber, R. (2024). The Extended Morality as Cooperation Dictionary: A Crowd-Sourced Approach via the Moral Narrative Analyzer Platform. International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia.
Howie Giles and co-author were given the 2024 JLSP Biennial Outstanding Paper Award for Maguire, E. R., & Giles, H. (2022). Public expressions of empathy and sympathy by US criminal justice officials after controversial police killings of African-Americans. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 41(1), 49-75.
Linda Putnam has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management, a huge honor, extremely difficult to achieve. The Academy of Management is a 19,000 member organization from 110 countries. The Fellows Group recognizes and honors members of AoM who have made significant contributions to the science and practice of management. They have a screening committee that vets nominations before they send it out to all the Fellows (250 active Fellows). Nominees have to receive a 60% confirmation vote from the 250 Fellows.
Seven of the Department of Communication members win Top Paper Award from the Mass Communication Division, International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia. Utom, C., Lundstedt, J. L., Woodman, K., Belinfante, J., Nelson, M., Youk, S., & Weber, R. (2024). Unraveling the ties between problematic social media use, emotion regulation, and psychological well-being. The four undergraduate Comm students worked on this paper as RAs in the Media Neuroscience Lab.
Neena is an upcoming Senior Communication student. Her pronouns are she/her. Neena entered UCSB as a transfer student in her Junior year and quickly fell in love with the Communication program. In addition to being a peer advisor, Neena is co-president of Writer's Room and Social Media and Marketing Chair for Reality. In between classes, you can find her at the beach, collaging in the library, or studying at a café.
Ruth is an upcoming 3rd-year Communication and Sociology major. Her pronouns are she/her. In communication, she is interested in interpersonal/intergroup and organizational communication. After UCSB, she hopes to continue her education and obtain her Master’s in Social Work. In her free time, Ruth likes reading (mostly fiction), spending time with friends, and enjoying the beautiful beaches. She’s passionate about connecting with people and would love to talk about double majors, being first generation, navigating the major/pre-major, or any other questions!
Kendra Martinez is a second-year Communication and Statistics and Data Science double-major from Los Angeles, California, expecting to graduate in 2027. In addition to being a Peer Advisor for the Department of Communication, Kendra is the assistant editor for the arts and culture section of UCSB's independent, student-run newspaper, The Daily Nexus. In her free time, Kendra enjoys going to concerts, taking long walks along the beach, and climbing with her friends.
Veronica Wilson was acknowledged with the 2024 GSA Excellence in Teaching Award. The GSA Excellence in Teaching Award (ETA) recognizes graduate students who have shown excellence and gone above and beyond as teaching assistants or teaching associates at UC Santa Barbara.