ICA Mobile Communication Division
Awards
To recognize outstanding scholarship in our subfield, the Mobile Communication Division presents several awards and prizes: a Top Paper award, an Emerging Scholar grant and a Top Dissertation award.
Top Papers
Each year, the Division hosts a special session immediately preceding the Business Meeting, composed of the highest rated papers submitted to Mobile Communication (using the scoring from blind peer review).
Eligibility: Research papers (not extended abstracts) submitted to the Mobile Communication Division for sessions at the ICA main conference.
2023 Top Papers
Award winning paper
Person- and Situation-Specific Variance in Media Use: A Meta-Analysis
Anna Schnauber-Stockmann, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Michael Scharkow, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Veronika Karnowski, University of Technology Chemnitz
Teresa K. Naab, University of Mannheim
Daniela M. Schlütz, Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Paul Pressmann, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Nominees
Does the Mere Presence of a Smartphone Impact Cognitive Performance? A Meta-analysis of the “Brain Drain Effect”
Douglas A. Parry, Setellenbosch University
Should I Stay (Online) or Should I Go (Offline)? How Conflicting Norms of Disconnection and Availability Correlate With Mobile Media Use Across Generations
Sarah Geber, University of Zürich
Minh Hao Nguyen, University of Amsterdam
Moritz Büchi
A Tale of Two Concepts. Differential Temporal Predictions of Habitual and Compulsive Social Media Use Concerning Connection Overload and Sleep Quality
Kevin Koban, University of Vienna
Anja Stevic, University of Vienna
Jörg Matthes, University of Vienna
2022 Top Papers
Award winning papers (score-tie)
Mobile Phones and Power Relationships: Understanding the Agentic Motivations and Strategies of North Korean Defectors by Gabrielle C. Ibasco, University of British Columia
Arul Chib, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Juhee Kang
Hybrid War, Hybrid Peace: Mobile Communication at the Frontline in Eastern Ukraine
Roman Horbyk, Södertörn University
2021 Top Papers
Award winning paper
Smartphones as Actors: A New Digital Disability Care Actor-Network in China
Zhongxuan Lin, Jinan University
Liu Yang, Sun Yat-Sen University
Nominees
A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Examining the Accuracy of Self-reported Digital Media Use
Douglas Parry, Stellenbosch U
Brittany Davidson, U of Bath
Craig Sewall, U of Pittsburgh
Jacob Fisher, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hannah Mieczkowski, Stanford U
Mobile Media, Glocal Intimacies, and the Contradictions of Access in the Philippines
Cecilia Uy-Tioco, California State U, San Marcos,
Jason Vincent Cabanes, De La Salle U
How and when do mobile media demands impact well-being? Explicating the integrative model of mobile media use and need experiences (IM3UNE)
Frank Schneider, U of Mannheim
Sarah Lutz, U of Mannheim
Annabell Halfmann, U of Mannheim
Adrian Meier, Johannes Gutenberg U of Mainz
Leonard Reinecke, Johannes Gutenberg U of Mainz
2020 Top Papers
Award winning paper
Digital Wellbeing as a Dynamic Construct
Mariek Vanden Abeele, Tilburg University
Nominees
What determines instant messaging communication? Examining the impact of person- and situation-level factors on IM responsiveness and perceived stress
Leyla Dogruel, Mainz University
Nomopobia and phubbing among Taiwanese emerging adults: Investigating affective smartphone use and family cohesion
Trisha T. C. Lin, National Chengchi University
Mobile Networked Creativity: Understanding creativity as open communication
Adriana de Souza e Silva, North Carolina State University
2019 Top Papers
Award winning paper
Wechat Use of Mainland Chinese Dual Migrants in Daily Border Crossing
Bei Ju, United Nations U-CS, MACAU
Nominees
Participants More Than Words - The Integrative Power of the Mobile Phone as “a Reciprocal Technology” for Micromobilization
Jun Liu, U of Copenhagen, DENMARK
Mobile but Not Mobilised? Differential Gains from Mobile News Consumption for Citizens’ Election Campaign Engagement
Jakob Ohme, U of Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
Tinder Passport and Grindr Explore: Traveling in the International Date-O-Sphere
Muira McCammon, U of Pennsylvania, USA
Emerging Scholar Grant
Each year, the Division offers a cash prize to further early-stage research projects with significant potential. The Awards Committee reviews submissions each spring and selects up to three recipients of the grant.
Eligibility: Early-career researchers (pre-tenure) who are members of ICA and the Mobile Communication Division.
2023 Emerging scholar grant
Understanding the Association between Digital Disconnection and Psychological Well-being, a Daily Diary Approach
Lise-Marie Nassen, KU Leuven
2022 Emerging scholar grant
The mediating role of social support and social comparison: Impact and Comparison of WeChat and Weibo usage behaviors on subjective well-being
Yuying Deng, University of Salamanca
2021 Emerging scholar grants
Towards a Spatial Grounding of Mediated and Non-mediated Communication to Capture Hybrid Communication through Chat App
Deepti Singh Apte, Symbiosis International (deemed) University
"Digital Boutiques” on WhatsApp and Facebook in Niger: Exploring Their Affordances and Uses Across Gender, Literacy, and Status
Ibrahim Maïdakouale, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté
2020 Emerging scholar grants
Always connected: The context and consequences of ubiquitous screen media exposure among preadolescents
Anneleen Meeus, Doctoral Researcher, KU Leuven
Third person effect and mobile media use
Archana Krishnan, SUNY Albany
2019 Emerging scholar grants
Smart Phones and Social Media Fatigue
Minh Hao Nguyen
Touch Screens, Mobile News Consumption, and Fake News
Zhixin Giselle Pu
WhatsApp with Politics?! Examining how social networks—within instant messaging apps—affect engagement with political news
Susan Vermeer
The Emerging Scholar Grant is awarded annually. A call-for-submissions is announced in Winter-Spring.
Dissertation Award
Offered in odd-numbered years, this award recognizes ambitious and significant scholarship completed in a doctoral dissertation.
Eligibility: Members of the Division who have defended a dissertation during the two calendar years preceding the ICA annual meeting.
2023 Dissertation Award
Stress Management and Coping Using Smartphones by Mothers of Young Children
Lara Wolfers, University of Hohenheim
2021 Dissertation Award
Urban Digital Inequality: Adversity and adaption in the network society
Will Marler, University of Zurich
2019 Dissertation Award
Everyday Multiscreening: How the simultaneous usage of multiple screens affects information processing and advertising effectiveness
Claire M. Segijn
Every odd-numbered year, the ICA Mobile Communication Division invites nominations for the biennial Mobile Communication Dissertation Award. The award is presented at the Division's business meeting during the ICA Annual Conference. A call-for-submissions is announced in Winter-Spring before the respective Annual Meeting.