2024
New grant! UW-Madison’s Center for Communication and Civic Renewal Expands Groundbreaking Research on the Impact of 21st Century Communication on Civic Life, with $3 million in funding over the next five years.
2023
New article published by CCCR Executive Administrative Director Nathan Kalmoe and co-author Lily Mason in Political Communication’s Forum section: “Threats as Political Communication.”
New article published in Political Communication by CCCR PhD students Xiaoya Jiang and Jisoo Kim with alum Yini Zhang and CCCR faculty Dhavan Shah and Jon Pevehouse: “Talking Past Each Other on Twitter: Thematic, Event, & Temporal Divergences in Polarized Partisan Expression on Immigration.”
Michael Wagner has been selected to join the General Social Survey’s Scientific Advisory Board for a four year term beginning in September 2023.
Dhavan Shah has been awarded a WARF Named Professorship by the UW-Madison, which he designated as the Jack M. McLeod Professor of Communication Research
Jianing Li has won the 2023 Thomas Patterson Award for Best Dissertation in Political Communication from the American Political Science Association.
Jianing Li, Jordan Foley, Omar Dumdum and Michael Wagner have won the 2022 Paper of the Year award for Mass Communication and Society for their article, “The Power of a Genre: Political News Presented as Fact-Checking Increases Accurate Belief Updating and Hostile Media Perceptions.”
Sijia Yang has won the Terry Hynes Innovative Leadership Award for 2023.
Yiming Wang and Michael Wagner were awarded an Elections Research Center grant for Ms. Wang’s dissertation project.
Dr. Nathan Kalmoe has joined the CCCR team as Executive Administrative Director.
2022
Dhavan Shah was named a Belfer Fellow by the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Center for Technology and Society (CTS), along with Erik Bucy of Texas Tech University.
Jianing Li, Jo Lukito, Ellie Yang, Jiyoun Suk, Dhavan Shah, and Mike Wagner have won the top student paper award in political communication for “Framing Black Lives Matter: The Persistence of Language Cues over Identity, Context, and Media Use” at the 2022 International Communication Association conference.
Dhavan Shah, Zhongkai Sun, Erik Bucy, Sang Jung Kim, Yibing Sun, and Mengyu Li won the top paper award in Computational Methods for “Building a Multimodal Classifier of Aggressive Political Style: A Tool for Understanding Political Performance in a Populist Era” at the 2022 International Communication Association conference.
Jianing Li and Michael Wagner have won the Top Poster award from the International Communication Association’s political communication division in 2021 for “Partisanship in Context: The Asymmetric Influence of Local Newspaper Context and Selective Exposure on Political Misperceptions in the US.”
Dhavan Shah has won the B. Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award from the International Communication Association.
Sijia Yang has won the University of Wisconsin-Madison Exceptional Service Award.