2026 ICCA Award Recipients

🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 ICCA Award Recipients!

We are delighted to extend warmest congratulations to this year’s distinguished award recipients. Their outstanding achievements in teaching, research, service, and scholarly leadership have greatly enriched the field of Chinese communication studies and the ICCA community.

🏆 ICCA Lifetime Achievement Award： Dr. Ran Wei Chair Professor in Communication, Department of Communication Studies; Associate Dean (Research and Development), Office of the Dean of Communication; Hong Kong Baptist University; former CCA President

🏆 ICCA Outstanding Service Award Dr. Shaohai Jiang Associate Professor, Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore; ICCA-NCA Conference/Research co-chair

🏆 Best Faculty Article Award Dr. Wen Shi and Dr. Jinhui Li School of Journalism and Communication, Jinan University

Award-winning article:Shi, W., & Li, J. (2025). News Diversity Under Algorithms: The Effects of Pre-Selected and Self-Selected Personalization on Chinese TikTok (Douyin). Digital Journalism, 13(7), 1190–1208.

🏆 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award Lihua Chen Beijing Normal University–Hong Kong Baptist University United International College / Hong Kong Baptist University

We are truly proud to celebrate the excellence, dedication, and scholarly contributions represented by these awards. We will present the award trophies at the ICCA–ICA Reception, to be held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on June 5 in Cape Town. Please join us in congratulating all the award recipients!

Trisha T. C. Lin President, ICCA (Distinguished Professor, College of Communication, National Chengchi University)