Research Prizes

  • 2022

    Top Published Article Award

    Top Published Article Award (2022) from the Children, Adolescents, and the Media Division of the International Communication Association. Awarded for paper: More Than Just a Laughing Matter: A Coding Framework of Humor in Media Entertainment for Tweens and Teens [published in the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media].

     

  • 2021

    Piet Visser Prijs

    Piet Visser Prijs (2021) from the Slaapcongres Nederland for the article: Sleep is a waste of time!? Understanding adolescent sleep health from a systems science perspective using causal loop diagrams. [ongoing research].

     

  • 2020

    Top Published Article Award

    Top Published Article Award (2020) from the Children, Adolescents, and the Media Division of the International Communication Association. Awarded for paper: Child’s play? Assessing the bidirectional longitudinal relationship between gaming and intelligence in early childhood [published in the Journal of Communication].

     

  • 2018

    Travel Funding

    Travel Funding (2018) from Aarhus University, DK for participation in the consortia-development workshop Childhood, Youth, and Digital Technologies.

     

  • 2017

    Top Paper Award

    Top Paper Award (2017) from the Children, Adolescents, and the Media Division of the International Communication Association. Awarded for paper: Which came first? Assessing transactional relationshipsvbetween children’s violent media use and ADHD-related behaviors.

     

  • 2013

    Young Scholars Travel Grant

    Young Scholars Travel Grant (2013, January) for research visit to Northwestern University, Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam.

     

  • 2012

    Top Paper Award

    Top Paper Award (2012) from the Children, Adolescents, and the Media Division of the International Communication   Association. Awarded for paper: How reduced narrative processing demands impact preschoolers’ comprehension of educational television.

     

  • Top Paper Award

    Top Paper Award (2012) from the Children, Adolescents, and the Media Division of the International Communication   Association. Awarded for paper: Background television in homes with young children.

     

  • 2006

    Top Paper Award

    Top Paper Award (2006) from the Mass Communication Division of the National Communication Association. Awarded for paper: The time-crunched family and preschool television: Is 24-hour television the answer?

     

  • Top Paper Award

    Top Paper Award (2006) from the Applied Communication Division of the Eastern Communication Association. Awarded for paper: Repeated viewings of Dora the Explorer and its influence on young children’s learning.

     

  • 2004

    George Gerbner Award

    George Gerbner Award (2004) from the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Awarded for best senior honors thesis by an undergraduate student.