ICA Awards won by disability communication and media scholars
ICA-Wide Awards
Filippo Trevian and Meryl Alper, ICA Outstanding Article Award, 2023
“Open Science, Closed Doors? Countering Marginalization Through an Agenda for Ethical, Inclusive Research in Communication” in Journal of Communication, 2021 (Authors: Fox, J., Pearce, K. E., Massanari, A. L., Riles, J. M., Szulc, Ł., Ranjit, Y. S., Trevisan, F., Soriano, C. R. R., Vitak, J., Arora, P., Ahn, S. J., Alper, M., Gambino, A., Gonzalez, C., Lynch, T. L., Williamson, L. D., & Gonzales, A. L.)
Samira Rajabi, ICA Outstanding Book Award, 2022
All My Friends Live in My Computer: Trauma, Tactical Media, and Meaning
Eszter Hargittai, Outstanding Young Scholar Award, 2010
Division Awards
Krysten Stein, Early Career Scholar Award, Popular Media and Culture Division, 2026
Victor Zhuang, Top Faculty Paper, Visual Communication Studies Division, 2025
“Disrupting Inclusion: Seeing Disability in a Public Education Campaign”
Marty Health, Top Student Paper, Philosophy, Theory, and Critique Division, 2024
“Rejecting the Label of ‘Vulnerable Subjects’: How Rethinking Ethical Guidelines for Research with Participants with Physical Disabilities Can Lead to Better Research”
Meryl Alper, Top Faculty Paper, Children, Adolescents, and Media Division, 2023
“I Get to Earn Screens, Which is Terrible”: Parental Mediation and the Family Context of Autistic Children’s Media Use
Kristella Montiegel, Top Three Papers, Language and Social Interaction Division, 2022
"“Use Your Words”: Vocalization and Moral Order in an Oral Preschool Classroom for Deaf or Hard-of
Hearing Children"
Zhongxuan Lin and Liu Yang, Top Paper, Mobile Communication Division, 2021
“Smartphones as Actors: A New Digital Disability Care Actor-Network in China”
Normy Bitman, Top Student Paper, Activism, Communication and Social Justice Division, 2020
"Reconceptualizing “Subaltern-Researcher”: Interviews as a Conflictual Methodology for a Communication Research D/deaf Researcher and Participants"
Elizabeth Ellcessor, Early Career Scholar Award, Popular Communication Division, 2019
Emma Pullen; Daniel Jackson; Michael Silk and Richard Scullion, Top Faculty Paper, Sports Communication Division, 2018
"Giving Disability the “Hollywood Treatment”: Channel 4 and the Broadcasting of the Paralympic Games"
Meryl Alper, Top Faculty Paper, Philosophy, Theory, and Critique Division, 2017
“Hearing Synthetic Speech as Human: Disability, Technology, and the Politics of Listening to Computerized Voice”
Meryl Alper, Top 3 Poster Award, Children, Adolescents and Media Division, 2015
"There’s Many Ways That I Know That He Can Read”: Towards an Asset Model of Childhood Disability and Children’s Media Use"
ICA Fellows with focus on disability communication and media research
Prof. Gerard Goggin, Western Sydney University
https://researchers.westernsydney.edu.au/en/persons/gerard-goggin/
Prof. Eszter Hargittai, University of Zurich
Prof. Jonathan Sterne (In Memory)