Faculty receives 2nd NCA Woolbert Award

By: Kirsten Khire

September 8, 2009

Joe Walther, a professor in the departments of Communication and Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media, has been selected to receive the National Communication Association (NCA) Charles H. Woolbert Research Award.

The Woolbert award is intended to recognize a journal article or book chapter that has stood the test of time and has become a stimulus for new conceptualizations of communication phenomena, more than a decade after publication.

Walther is receiving this award for the 1996 article "Computer-Mediated Communication: Impersonal, Interpersonal, and Hyperpersonal Interaction," published in Communication Research.

Notably, this is the first time in the National Communication Association that any member has received two Woolbert awards. Walther received a previous Woolbert award in 2002 for an article written in 1992.

Walther will be formally recognized at the NCA awards ceremony on Nov. 14 at the convention in Chicago.