Students win 3 of 4 top NCA paper awards
Media School students have earned three of four top student paper honors and will present their work at the National Communication Association’s national conference in November in Las Vegas.
Each paper won Top Student Paper in the Mass Communication Division. Authors are these doctoral students:
- Daphna Yeshua-Katz for “Communication Stigma and Social Report: A Comparative Content Analysis of Online Communities”;
- Teresa Lynch, Jess Tompkins, Irene van Driel and Niki Fritz for “Sexy, Strong, and Secondary: An Analysis of the Portrayal of Female Video Game Characters from 1983 to 2014”;
- Ashley Kraus, Nancy Tyree and Indiana State University’s Matthew Blaszka for “Winning Bodies: A Content Analysis of Body Imagery within Competitive Reality Programs.”
The Top Student Paper Award acknowledges important research and honors exemplary work in the competitive field of communications scholarship, according to the division’s website.
The papers will be presented Nov. 20 during the conference.