Paper Awards

First Place

Title:

“They Always Get Our Story Wrong”:  Addressing Social Justice Activists’ News Distrust through Solidarity Reporting

Anita Varma and Brad Limov, University of Texas at Austin, and Ayleen Cabas-Mijares, Marquette University

Title:

Defying Uganda’s Morality Police: The Grammar of Social Media Protest Images

Javie Ssozi and David Dowling, University of Iowa

Title:

Black Television Journalists’ and their Lens of “Gatekeeping Blackness”

Denetra Walker, University of Georgia

First Place

Title:

Criminal Black(wo)man Wrongfully Detained: “Now How Can She Feel Like America has Her Back?”

Ashley Carter, University of Colorado Boulder

Second Place

Title:

Masc Affect: Complicating the Affect of Masculinity in Video Games Research

Joshua Foust, University of Colorado Boulder

Third Place

Title:

Journalistic Perspectives on the Impact of Embodied Identities and Experiences on Newswork

Carolina Velloso, University of Maryland