Robert M. Worcester Prize 2024

LEE, Seungsu (Recipient) & Cho, Jaeho (Recipient)

Department of Media and Communication

Prize: RGC 64B - Prizes and awards

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Every year, the Robert M. Worcester Prize is given in recognition of the best article published in IJPOR – the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, the journal of WAPOR. Evaluation of all papers published in the previous calendar year takes place in two steps, first by the members of the international editorial board of the journal, and then by an award committee appointed by the WAPOR council. A winning article is selected as a result of these two rounds of evaluation.

Awarded date	30 Jul 2024
Degree of recognition	International
Granting Organisations	World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR)

Awarded at event

Event title	77th Annual WAPOR Conference
Location	, Seoul, Korea, Republic ofShow on map
Period	28 Jul 2024 → 31 Jul 2024

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Every year, the Robert M. Worcester Prize is given in recognition of the best article published in IJPOR – the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, the journal of WAPOR. Evaluation of all papers published in the previous calendar year takes place in two steps, first by the members of the international editorial board of the journal, and then by an award committee appointed by the WAPOR council. A winning article is selected as a result of these two rounds of evaluation. Thank you to the members of the editorial board who participated in the evaluation as well as the members of the WAPOR award committee including Tom Smith, Paulina Tabery, Jibum Kim, Anna Andreenkova, Constanza Cilley and Robert Worcester as ex officio member. The recipients of the 2023 Worcester Award are Seungsu Lee and Jaeho Cho (University of California, USA) for their paper “Communication Mediation in an Era of Partisan Selectivity: Modelling Effects of Information and Discussion on Participation“. The award committee comments that, Lee and Cho use the communication mediation model (CMM) to examine patterns of partisan communication in contemporary polarized politics and fragmented partisan media environments. They test the CMM considering (a) two types of news consumption (like-minded and cross-cutting) in the place of overall news use and (b) both affective and cognitive responses. They find a partisan CMM that consists of a two-step mediation linking partisan news consumption to participation through talk and affective polarization. They utilized national survey data covering three U.S. presidential election cycles (the 2012, 2016, and 2020 American National Election Studies). Their study developed a theoretical framework for exploring polarization, political discussions and participation. It is analytically rigorous, uses high-quality survey data, and creates a framework for examining this important issue in the future.