SComS Best Paper Award
Since 2018 Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS) grants an annual Best Paper Award. It honors the best paper published in the journal in the General Section or a Thematic Section.
The editors preselect up to eight published SComS papers and organize a peer-review with jurors from outside the editorial team who rank quality of the papers independently from each other.
The award winner is announced at the annual conference of the Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SACM).
Laureates
2023
Lena Wuergler and Annik Dubied (University of Neuchâtel)
Performing Investigative Identities: How Print Journalists Establish Authority Through Their Texts
(Vol. 23, Issue 2)
Jurors:
Hannah Früh (HAW Hamburg University of Applied Sciences)
Werner A. Meier (University of Zurich)
Maija Ozola-Schade (TU Ilmenau)
Lilian Suter (ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences)
Tobias Rohrbach (University of Bern)
2022
Maija Ozola-Schade (Technical University Ilmenau)
Intergroup relations and media: The effects of media system quality in explaining immigration attitudes (Vol. 22, Issue 2)
Esa Väliverronen (University of Helsinki)
Tanja Sihvonen (University of Vaasa)
Salla-Maaria Laaksonen (University of Helsinki)
Merja Koskel (University of Vaasa)
Branding the “wow-academy”: The risks of promotional culture and quasi-corporate communication in higher education (Vol. 22, Issue 3)
Jurors:
Hannah Früh (HAW Hamburg University of Applied Sciences)
Constanze Jecker (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts)
Werner A. Meier (University of Zurich)
Alexander Ort (University of Lucerne)
Lilian Suter (ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences)
Nina Wicke
2021
Nina Wicke (Technische Universität Braunschweig)
Monika Taddicken (Technische Universität Braunschweig)
"I think it's up to the media to raise awareness." Quality expectations of media coverage on climate change from the audience’s perspective (Vol. 21, Issue 1)
Jurors:
Davide Cino (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano)
Hannah Früh (HAW Hamburg University of Applied Sciences)
Werner A. Meier (University of Zurich)
Franziska Oehmer-Pedrazzi (University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons FHGR)
Alexander Ort (University of Lucerne)
Lilian Suter(ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences)
2020
Davide Cino (University of Milan-Bicocca)
Chiara Dalledonne Vandini (University of Bologna)
“My kid, my rule”: Governing children’s digital footprints as a source of dialectical tensions between mothers and daughters-in-law (Vol. 20, Issue 2)
Jurors:
Regula Hänggli (University of Fribourg)
Wibke Weber (ZHAW School of Applied Linguistics)
2019
Raphael Kösters (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
Peter Obert (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
Matthias Begenat (Center for Advanced Internet Studies, CAIS)
Olaf Jandura (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
In der Krise vereint? Milieuspezifische Perspektiven auf die Flüchtlingskrise (Vol. 19, Issue 1)
Jurors:
Klaus Neumann-Braun (University of Basel)
Urs Dahinden (University of Applied Sciences, Chur)
2018
Frank Marcinkowski (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
Christopher Starke (University of Münster)
Trust in government: What’s news media got to do with it? (Vol. 18, Issue 1)
Jurors:
Klaus Neumann-Braun (University of Basel)
Heinz Bonfadelli (University of Zurich)