[Air-L] Yeshua-Katz Winner of Couch Award

[David Nemer]

Congrats Daphna!! Well deserved!!

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*David Nemer*
PhD Candidate in Social Informatics
School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
Editor of the Social Informatics Blog - http://socialinformaticsblog.com
http://www.dnemer.com dnemer at indiana.edu


On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Mark D. Johns <mjohns at luther.edu> wrote:

> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- June 12, 2013
>
> Contact: Dr. Mark D. Johns, Executive Director
> Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research
> c/o Department of Communication Studies
> Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA 52101
> Tel: (563) 387-1347
> email: mjohns at luther.edu
>
> Yeshua-Katz Winner of Couch Award
>
> DECORAH, Iowa -- Daphna Yeshua-Katz, Ph.D. in the Department of
> Telecommunications at Indiana University, Bloomington, is the winner
> of the 2013 Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award. The Couch Award is
> presented annually by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet
> Research (www.cccsir.com) and recognizes excellent student-authored
> papers.
>
> Yeshua-Katz's paper, "Beyond the Backstage: Boundary Work in the
> Pro-ana Community" explores blogs in an online community for people
> with eating disorders. Her work reveals that in order to protect these
> virtual groups and resist the stigma associated with their illness,
> bloggers construct their own unique norms and rules.
>
> Because of an unusually large number of high-quality entries this
> year, the Award committee selected two additional papers for
> "Honorable Mention." Alex Leavitt, a Ph.D. student in the Annenberg
> School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern
> California received Honorable Mention for his paper, "No Copyright
> Infringement Intended: Emergent discourses in networked media
> sharing." Also, Elisabeth Montemurro, a graduate student in the School
> of Communication at Loyola University received Honorable Mention for
> her paper, "Interacting with #BindersFullofWomen."
>
> The Couch Award was established in 2002 as the centerpiece of an
> extensive awards program. Competition is open to graduate or
> undergraduate students of all disciplines, and winners are selected by
> a committee of university professors.
>
> The winner will receive a cash award as well as the opportunity to
> present her paper at an international conference. This year’s award
> will be presented at the annual conference of the Association of
> Internet Researchers in Denver, Colo., October 23-26.
>
> The Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research is a non-profit
> organization established to promote the scholarship of the late Carl
> J. Couch and his academic associates. The Center provides networking
> opportunities for students and scholars who conduct social and
> Internet research inspired by Couch's work.
>
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