Itai Himelboim |
Itai Himelboim, associate professor of advertising in the
Advertising and Public Relations Department at The University of Georgia’s
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, was awarded third place in
the faculty paper competition and The Karen Russell Award for his research on
social networks.
Himelboim’s research in classifying Twitter topic-networks
using social network analysis was presented this August in the annual
Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication. In order to further uncover the success of social media
networks, Twitter social media network datasets were segmented. This
segmentation allowed for the research to illustrate six distinct patterns of
collective connections. Himelboim was awarded third place in the Communication
Technology division for his work delving into the value of these network
structures.
In addition to his recognition for his work in identifying
distinct patterns of connections via Twitter, Himelboim was given The Karen
Russell Award for most downloaded Journal of Public Relations Research paper in
2014. Named after Karen Russell, an associate professor of public relations at
Grady, this award was presented to Himelboim as the study identified social
mediators that connected the U.S. State Department with its international
public. As the research concluded, it was unveiled that government-related
formal mediators and informal social mediators showed similar bilateral
relationships. Himelboim was recognized for this award in the Public Relations
division.
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