International Communication Association Political Communication Division Awards
The 2024 David Swanson Award for Service to Political Communication Scholarship
The David Swanson Award for Service to Political Communication Scholarship recognizes those distinguished in their sustained contributions to the field as division leaders and program planners, journal editors, committee chairs and other roles that require time and energy, innovation, and personal dedication.
The award honours David Swanson, one of the founders of political communication who gave exemplary service to the ICA Political Communication Division and APSA Political Communication Section. In his memory, the ICA division presents the award every other year.
The joint award committee includes representatives of the ICA division and APSA section; traditionally, it is partly made up of previous winners of this award. The 2024 selection committee consists of Yariv Tsfati (U of Haifa), Johanna Dunaway (Syracuse U), Claes de Vreese (U of Amsterdam). The award is given every two years.
The 2024 David Swanson Award goes to
Rebekah Tromble (George Washington University)
Past Recipients of the David Swanson Award:
2022 Yariv Tsfati
2020 Gianpietro Mazzoleni
2018 Claes de Vreese
2016 Shanto Iyengar
2014 Patricia Moy
2012 David Paletz
2010 Doris Graber
2008 Wolfgang Donsbach
2006 Ann Crigler
Call for Nominations:
The Kaid-Sanders Best Political Communication Article of the Year Award
Every year the ICA Political Communication Division awards the best article published in our field.
This year’s award committee was chaired by Stuart Soroka (U of California, Los Angeles); and committee members include Christian Baden (Hebrew U of Jerusalem), Daniela Dimitrova (Iowa State U) and Silvia Majo Vazquez (Vrije U Amsterdam).
The award committee judged each article on several criteria including the importance of the topic it addresses, theoretical depth, the strength of evidence it presents, the significance of its conclusions, and its overall contribution to the field of Political Communication. The nomination letter should indicate how the article fulfills these criteria.
This year’s Kaid-Sanders Award for Best Political Communication Article goes to…
Sang Jung Kim, Isabel Iruani Villanueva, and Kaiping Chen: “Going Beyond Affective Polarization: How Emotions and Identities Are Used in Anti-Vaccination TikTok Videos.” Political Communication, 41(4), 588–607. [Publisher]
Past Recipients
2022 – Greg Chih-Hsin Sheen, Hans H. Tung & Wen-Chin Wu (2022) Power Sharing and Media Freedom in Dictatorships, Political Communication, 39:2, 202-221. [Publisher]
2021 – Jin Woo Kim and Eunji Kim, “Temporal Selective Exposure: How Partisans Choose When to Follow Politics,” Political Behavior 43, 1663–1683. [Publisher]
2020 – Benjamin Toff and Antonis Kalogeropoulos, “All the News that’s Fit to Ignore: How the Information Environment Does and Does Not Shape News Avoidance,” Public Opinion Quarterly, 84(S1), 366-390. [Publisher]
2019 – Jessica T. Feezell and Brittany Ortiz, “‘I saw it on Facebook’: An experimental analysis of political learning through social media,” Information, Communication & Society, 1-20. [Publisher]
2018 – Young Mie Kim, Jordan Hsu, David Neiman, Colin Kou, Levi Bankston, Soo Yun Kim, Richard Heinrich, Robyn Baragwanath, and Garvesh Raskutti, “The stealth media? Groups and targets behind divisive issue campaigns on Facebook,” Political Communication, 35(4), 515-541. [Publisher]
2017 – Philipp Müller, Christian Schemer, Martin Wettstein, Anne Schulz, Dominique S. Wirz, Sven Engesser, and Werner Wirth, “The Polarizing Impact of News Coverage on Populist Attitudes in the Public: Evidence From a Panel Study in Four European Democracies,” Journal of Communication, 67 (6), 968-992. [Publisher]
2016 – Roderick P. Hart and Alexander L. Curry, “The Third Voice of American Politics,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, 46(1), 73-97. [Publisher]
2015 – Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz and Devra C. Moehler, “Moderation from bias: A field experiment on partisan media in a new democracy,” Journal of Politics, 77(2), 575-587. [Publisher]
2014 – Navid Hassanpour, “Media disruption and revolutionary unrest: Evidence from Mubarak’s quasi-experiment,” Political Communication, 31(1), 1-24. [Publisher]
2013 – Gadi Wolfsfeld, Elad Segev, and Tamir Sheafer, “Social media and the Arab Spring: Politics comes first,” International Journal of Press/Politics, 18(2), 115-137. [Publisher]
2012 – Catie Snow Bailard, “Testing the Internet’s effect on democratic satisfaction. A multi-methodological, cross-national approach,” Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 9(2), 185-204. [Publisher]
2011 – Lauren Feldman, “The opinion factor: The effects of opinionated news on information processing and attitude change,” Political Communication, 28(2), 163-181. [Publisher]
2010 – Hernando Rojas, “‘Corrective’ actions in the public sphere: How perceptions of media and media effects shape political behavior,” International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 22(3), 343-363. [Publisher]
2009 – Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt, “Where is Jack Bauer when you need him?” The uses of television drama in mediated political discourse,” Political Communication, 26(4), 367-387. [Publisher]
2008 – Frank Esser, “Dimensions of political news cultures: Sound bite and image bite news in France, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States,” International Journal of Press/Politics, 13(4), 401-428 . [Publisher]
2007 – Adam Simon and Jennifer Jerit, “Toward a theory relating political discourse, media, and public opinion,” Journal of Communication, 57(2), 254-71. [Publisher]
2006 – Scott L. Althaus and Young Mie Kim, “Priming effects in complex information environments: Reassessing the impact of news discourse on presidential approval,” Journal of Politics, 68(4), 960-976. [Publisher]
2005 – Dhavan V. Shah, Jaeho Cho, William P. Eveland, Jr., and Nojin Kwak, “Information and expression in a digital age: Modeling Internet effects on civic participation,” Communication Research, 32(5), 531-565. [Publisher]
2005 – John Medearis, “Social movements and deliberative democratic theory,” British Journal of Political Science, 35(1), 53-75. [Publisher]
2004 – Jochen Peter, “Our long return to the concept of powerful mass media,” International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 16(2), 144-168. [Publisher]
2003 – Kees Aarts and Holli Semetko, “The divided electorate: Media use and political involvement,” Journal of Politics, 65(3), 759-784. [Publisher]
Call for Nominations: Political Communication Division PhD Dissertation Award
Deadline: April 7, 2025
The division is now accepting nominations for the best dissertation in our field defended in 2023 and 2024 (this is a biannual award).
The award committee consists of Dam Hee Kim (chair; Korea University), Patrícia Rossini (University of Glasgow) and Benjamin Toff (University of Minnesota). The award committee evaluates each nominated dissertation on several criteria, including the importance of the problem/topic it addresses, the rigor of the method, the strength of the evidence it presents, and the significance of its conclusions. The committee will also consider the overall contribution of the research to the field of Political Communication.
Self-nominations are possible. All materials must be submitted in English. The nomination package should include:
a) A publication from the dissertation. This can be an exemplary article or chapter from the dissertation. Both published and unpublished articles can be submitted. Co-authored articles are permitted, but the Ph.D. student must be the lead author of the article. Alternatively, a 35-page (max) outline of the dissertation can be submitted.
b) A memo (max 2 pages) outlining the overall thrust and evidence in the dissertation as well as an overview of any other publications stemming from the dissertation (either published, under review, or in press).
c) Dated evidence of successful defense
d) A nomination letter from a scholar.
Deadline: April 7, 2025. Late submissions will not be accepted. All nominations should be emailed to Dam Hee Kim (damheekim@korea.ac.kr)
The winner of the award will be announced during the division’s business meeting at the ICA Conference in Denver on June 13, 2025.
Past Recipients
2023 – Andreas Nanz, “Incidental exposure in the online world: Antecedents, mechanisms, and consequences.”
2021 – Amélie Godefroidt, “How the Idea of Terrorism Is Changing Us.” [Link]
2019 – Julie Sevenans, “Why Political Elites Respond to the Media: The Micro-Level Mechanisms underlying Political Agenda-Setting Effects.” [Link]
2017 – Eike Mark Rinke, “Justificatory News: Investigating the Contextual Antecedents of Justification in the News.” [Link]
2015 – No award given.
2013 – Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt, “Journalism’s Missing Links: Kidnapping and Captivity Coverage around the World.” [Link]
Call for Nominations: The International Journal of Press/Politics Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award 2025
Deadline: 4 April 2025
Nominations are invited for the annual International Journal of Press/Politics Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award, to be received no later than 4 April 2025.
Rationale
The International Journal of Press/Politics Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award honors internationally oriented books that advance our theoretical and empirical understanding of the linkages between news media and politics in a globalized world in a significant way. It is given annually by the International Journal of Press/Politics and sponsored by SAGE Publications.
The award committee will judge each nominated book based on the following criteria:
- the extent to which the book contributes to internationally relevant knowledge;
- the significance of the problems addressed;
- conceptual and theoretical innovation;
- strength of evidence;
- clarity of writing;
- ability to link journalism studies, political communication research, and other relevant fields of intellectual and scholarly inquiry.
Eligibility
Books written in English and published within the last ten years will be considered. Monographs as well as edited volumes of exceptional quality and coherence will be considered for the award. Books by current members of the award committee are ineligible and committee members will recuse themselves from discussion of books that may entail conflicts of interest, such as books authored by members of their own department or published in a series they edit. Books nominated for previous editions of the award may be nominated again as long as they meet the eligibility criteria.
Award committee
The award committee consists of Taberez A. Neyazi (Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Press/Politics), Kate Kenski (chair of the Political Communication Division of ICA), and Edson C. Tandoc Jr. (chair of the Journalism Studies Division of ICA).
Nominations
Nominations should be emailed to Taberez A. Neyazi (taberez@nus.edu.sg) by 4 April 2025. Self-nominations are accepted. Nominations should be accompanied by a rationale of 300-500 words, authored by a researcher, that clearly specifies why the book meets the criteria listed above. Please include links to or copies of relevant reviews in scholarly journals if applicable.
Arrangements should be made with the publishers of nominated books to send one hard copy to Taberez A. Neyazi and Edson C. Tandoc Jr., and either one hard copy or an e-book (i.e., the full book in PDF format) to Kate Kenski. All copies should be sent to the respective committee members at the following addresses by 4 April:
- Taberez A. Neyazi, Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, 11 Computing Drive, AS6, 03-11, Singapore 117416. Email: taberez@nus.edu.sg.
- Kate Kenski, Department of Communication and School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona, 1103 E. University Blvd., Communication Building #25, Room 211, Tucson, AZ 85721-0025. Email: kkenski@email.arizona.edu
- Edson C. Tandoc Jr., Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, 02-39, 31 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637718. Email: edson@ntu.edu.sg.
Presentation
The award will be presented at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association and will be announced on the IJPP website.
Past winners of the award
2024: Erin Baggott Carter & Brett Carter: Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and The Politics Of Belief (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
2023: Gadi Wolfsfeld, Tamir Sheafer, and Scott Althaus: “Building Theory in Political Communication: The Politics-Media-Politics Approach” (Oxford University Press).
2022: Nikki Usher, News for the Rich, White, and Blue: How Place and Power Distort American Journalism (Columbia University Press, 2021).
2021: Allissa V. Richardson, Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism (Oxford University Press, 2020).
2020: Thomas Hanitzsch, Folker Hanusch, Jyotika Ramaprasad, and Arnold S. de Beer (Editors),Worlds of Journalism: Journalistic Cultures Around the Globe (Columbia University Press, 2019).
2019: Maria Repnikova, Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism(Cambridge University Press, 2017).
2018: Erik Albæk, Arjen van Dalen, Nael Jebril, and Claes H. de Vreese, Political Journalism in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
2017: Katrin Voltmer, The Media in Transitional Democracies (Polity Press, 2013).
2016: Andrew Chadwick, The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power (Oxford University Press, 1stedition 2013).
2015: Rodney Benson, Shaping Immigration News (Cambridge University Press, 2014).