2026 ICCA–ICA Award Winners

We are delighted to announce the recipients of this year’s ICCA–ICA Best Paper Awards:

• Best Faculty Paper: "How Travel Videos Shape Intergroup Perception? The Spillover Effect of Mediated Intergroup Contact" — Zhuo Chen & Wenchang Wang

3• Best Student Paper: "From ‘Free Railway’ to ‘Development Railway’: Journalism, Transcultural Memory, and Mnemonic Opportunity Structures of the TAZARA Railway in China, Tanzania, and Zambia" — Haoyu Huang

Each awardee will receive USD $200, an e-certificate, and a one-year ICCA membership.

Congratulations to all our panelists and award winners!

A heartfelt thank-you to everyone who submitted their work and to our reviewers for their timely and thoughtful feedback. We look forward to celebrating these achievements together in Cape Town!

Warm regards,

Céline Yunya Song & Hsuan-Ting Chen

ICCA–ICA Co-Chairs