Congratulations to all of our award winners at the 2017 International Conference on Social Media & Society.
Best Paper Award
- “Spiral of Silence 2.0: Political Self-Censorship among Young Facebook Users” by Christian Pieter Hoffmann & Christoph Lutz (BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo)
Best Methods Paper Award
- “Labels and sentiment in social media: On the role of perceived agency in online discussions of the refugee crisis” by Ju-Sung Lee (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands) & Adina Nerghes (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Best Poster Award
- ‘A Clown, a Political Messiah or a Punching Bag? Crafting and Negotiating Multiple Celebrity Identities through Social Media’ by Tommy Tse & Joey Chan (The University of Hong Kong)
Most Engaged Attendee on Twitter Award
- Ann Pegararo (Laurentian University, Canada) @SportMgmtProf
Attendee Who Traveled the Furthest Award
- Lisa Given (Swinburne University of Technology) from Melbourne, Australia