[Air-l] Carl Couch Internet Research Awards

Mark D. Johns johnsmar at luther.edu
Wed Aug 28 12:59:13 PDT 2002


CARL J. COUCH INTERNET RESEARCH AWARDS ANNOUNCED
August 28, 2002

The Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research is pleased to 
announce the winners of the first annual Carl J. Couch Internet Research 
competition for students.

Top Paper honors go to Kurt Reymers, a Ph.D. candidate at the University 
at Buffalo (SUNY), for his submission, "Identity and the Internet: A 
Symbolic Interactionist Perspective on
Computer-Mediated Social Networks."
Runner Up is Nick Huber, a graduate student at Minnesota State 
University -- Mankato, for his paper, "Surfing for Sports."
Third Place honors were earned by Andrea Nugent, a student at Goucher 
College (Maryland), for her paper, "Database as Cultural Form."

The top three papers are to be presented at the 2002 International 
Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) at the 
University of Maastricht (the Netherlands), International Institute of 
Infonomics. In addition, the winners will receive Couch Award 
certificates and cash prizes at Maastricht conference, which takes place 
October 13-16, 2002.

The Couch Award competition is open to students at any level who submit 
theoretical or empirical papers that (1) apply symbolic interactionist 
approaches to Internet studies, (2) demonstrate interactive 
relationships between social interaction and communication technologies 
as advocated by Couch, (3) develop symbolic interactionist concepts in 
new directions.

The Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Studies 
(http://www.cccsir.org) is a non-profit organization established to 
promote scholarship in sociological and communication inquiries. It 
honors the late Carl J. Couch, founder of the New Iowa school of social 
theory, and seeks to extend Couch's methods of qualitative laboratory 
research and Couch's work on information technologies.
The Center provides networking opportunities and corroboration 
information for students and scholars who conduct social and Internet 
research inspired by Couch's work. By promoting interdisciplinary 
exchanges, the center seeks to engage the scholars, citizens, and 
industry partners in social and Internet research.

For more information about CCCSIR or the Couch Award, please contact 
Mark D. Johns, Assistant Professor of Communication/Linguistics, Luther 
College, Decorah, Iowa 52101. Phone (563) 387-1347, email: 
johnsmar at luther.edu

-- 
Mark D. Johns, Ph.D.
Asst. Professor of Communication/Linguistics, 
Luther College, Decorah, Iowa
http://faculty.luther.edu/~johnsmar/
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