2026 ICCA–ICA Research Panel Results

Dear ICCAers & Friends,

We’re thrilled to announce the results of this year’s ICCA–ICA Research Panel submissions! Competition was intense, with an acceptance rate of just 20%. After a thorough blind review, five outstanding papers were selected for presentation at the 76th Annual ICA Conference in Cape Town next June.

Please join us in congratulating the following panelists:

1. "How Travel Videos Shape Intergroup Perception? The Spillover Effect of Mediated Intergroup Contact"

   
   

   Zhuo Chen, Peking University HSBC Business School; Wenchang Wang, Peking University

2. "‘Neither Chinese nor Kenyan Enough’: Visual Fusion and Transcultural Imagination in China–Kenya Fashion Encounters"

   
   

   Shengjun Jin, Jinan University; Lin Shi, Beijing Normal University

3. "Framing Health Risks of Air Pollution in Taiwanese Newspapers"

   
   

   Yue Tan, National Sun Yat-sen University

4. "From ‘Free Railway’ to ‘Development Railway’: Journalism, Transcultural Memory, and Mnemonic Opportunity Structures of the TAZARA Railway in China, Tanzania, and Zambia"

   
   

   Haoyu Huang, Wuhan University

5. "Communicating Stigmatized Diseases on WeChat: Uncovering Infotainment Strategies and Public Engagement in Official Health Communication"

   
   

   Xuanyu Bai, University of Technology Sydney; Wei Huang, City University of Hong Kong