Considered the world’s largest library event, the conference joins thousands of librarians and library staff, educators, authors, publishers, friends of libraries, trustees, special guests, and exhibitors.

Greene received the award in recognition of distinguished scholarly contributions to the broad field of communication. Greene's research program explores health decision-making related to various health risks or the central role of communication in preventing risk and maintaining health and wellness in individuals and populations.

Weber’s research examines organizational change in relation to the use of new information communication technologies – focusing largely on news media. He has studied organizations in a variety of contexts, including an examination of the transformation of the news media industry in the United States, an analysis of local newspaper ecosystems, research on technology use in large multinational organizations, and work on social movements.

Ph.D. student Kaitlin Montague developed a new term, “mobile access instability,” to describe how mobility is a significant component in the creation and resolution of access instability for people who live in their vehicles.

This prestigious award, given to only one researcher in the ICWSM community, is presented annually “to a young researcher who has distinguished themself through innovative research in the area of computational social science in the early stage of their independent research career.”

Faculty members in the departments of Communication and Journalism and Media Studies and students in the Ph.D. Program in Communication, Information, and Media are participating in the 74th Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference. The conference is scheduled from June 20–24 at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre in Broadbeach, Australia; the theme is “communication and global human rights.”