[Air-L] AoIR 2020 Dissertation Award - Winner

[Fernanda Rosa]

Thank you, AoIR! This is such an honor and I'm still processing it. Wow,
I'm deeply happy!!

It's also a joy to see the recognition of Elisabetta's work! It's
outstanding, and this award is very well-deserved!! <3

To all international students on this list who are constantly thinking of
visa, funds, housing, politics, saudades, and visa, funds, housing, and
unfamiliarity, and visa, and funds, and now the pandemic, please remember
to be kind to yourself. Maybe the biggest challenge amidst all the urgent
matters is to learn how to "like the unfinished in a loving way," as
Clarice Lispector refers to her poems ("Gosto de um modo carinhoso do
inacabado"). Hope you find the paths to this mode of generosity.

Obrigadaa!

Fernanda

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 10:42 PM Carmen Lee (ENG) <carmenlee at cuhk.edu.hk>
wrote:

> AoIR 2020 Dissertation Award - Winner
>
> On behalf of the AoIR 2020 Dissertation Award Committee, it is my pleasure
> to announce that this year’s Dissertation Award goes to Dr. Elisabetta
> Ferrari’s dissertation, 'The Technological Imaginaries of Social Movements:
> The Discursive Dimension of Communication Technology and the Fight for
> Social Justice’. Dr. Ferrari's study investigates the construction and role
> of technological imaginaries of social movements in three different
> countries - the US, Italy, and Hungary, through a multi-method qualitative
> approach.
>
> Here is a summary of the review committee’s comments:
>
> This is an extremely well-written dissertation that tackles a timely and
> pressing social issue. Dr. Ferrari's work stands out for its conceptual
> clarity, structure of argumentation and readability. It makes a clear
> contribution to the existing body of knowledge with new conceptual avenues
> and methodological innovation. The Committee also found the multicultural
> dimension particularly appealing, contributing more diversity to scholarly
> debates in the spirits of AoIR.
>
> Congratulations, Dr Ferrari!
>
> The Committee has also recognized Dr. Fernanda Rosa’s dissertation 'Global
> Internet Interconnection Infrastructure: Materiality, Concealment and
> Surveillance in Contemporary Communication’ with an Honorable Mention.
>
> I would also like to thank my colleagues on the Committee, Dr. Jessica
> Beyer, Dr. Taina Bucher, and Dr. Aljosha Karim Schapals, for their hard
> work in the review process.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Carmen Lee
> Chair, AoIR 2020 Dissertation Award Committee
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Carmen Lee, PhD.
> Director, MA in Applied English Linguistics,
> Associate Professor,
> Department of English,
> Chinese University of Hong Kong
> Associate Editor, Discourse, Context & Media
> (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/discourse-context-and-media)
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