Book by Prof. Marwan Kraidy honored by NCA

Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life (Cambridge University Press, 2010) by Marwan M. Kraidy, Ph.D., Professor of Communication at Annenberg, has been awarded the Diamond Anniversary Book Award by the National Communication Association (NCA).

 

The Diamond Anniversary Book Award is given to the author of the most outstanding scholarly book published during the past two years.

 

Prof. Kraidy is the fourth member of the Standing Faculty at Annenberg to win the Diamond Book Award from NCA. Previous winners are Barbie Zelizer, Ph.D., for Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory through the Camera’s Eye (University of Chicago Press, 2000); Paul Messaris, Ph.D., for Visual Literacy: Image, Mind and Reality (Westview Press, 1994), and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., won the honor twice - for Packaging The Presidency: A History and Criticism of Presidential Campaign Advertising (Oxford University Press, 1996), and for Presidents Creating the Presidency: Deeds Done in Words (with Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, University of Chicago Press, 2008).

 

You can watch a short video of Prof. Kraidy discussing his book on the Annenberg YouTube channel.

 

 

The National Communication Association advances communication as the discipline that studies all forms, modes, media and consequences of communication through humanistic, social scientific and aesthetic inquiry.

 

The NCA serves the scholars, teachers, and practitioners who are its members by enabling and supporting their professional interests in research and teaching. Dedicated to fostering and promoting free and ethical communication, the NCA promotes the widespread appreciation of the importance of communication in public and private life, the application of competent communication to improve the quality of human life and relationships, and the use of knowledge about communication to solve human problems.

 

NCA is the largest national organization to promote communication scholarship and education. A non-profit organization, NCA has over 8,000 educators, practitioners, and students who work and reside in every state and more than 20 countries.