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

 

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]

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