Awards

Keith Hampton William F Ogburn Career Achievement Award
08 Aug 2022

Keith N. Hampton receives the William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award from the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association

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Keith N. Hampton receives the William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award from the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association Keith N. Hampton, Ph.D. has been selected as this year’s recipient of the William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions in the area of Communication, Information Technologies and Media Sociology (CITAMS). His years of research explore how social media and digital technologies influence society and the way people interact with one another. Hampton is a professor in the Department of Media & Information where he studies and teaches the relationship between digital technologies, inequality, social networks, democratic […]
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19 Jul 2022

#SMSociety’22 Best Paper Award

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The award was presented at the 12th International Conference on Social Media & Society to Keith Hampton and Inyoung Shin for the Best Paper entitled “Excessive Social Media Use is Less Harmful than Disconnection for the Self Esteem of Rural Adolescents”. #SMSociety is an annual conference with about 150 papers. This paper is based on the Quello rural schools project. You can find the Video here-Excessive Social Media Use is Less Harmful than Disconnection for the Self Esteem of Rural Adolescents. Or read the paper here DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4136539
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27 Jun 2022

$10.5MM FEDERAL GRANT AWARDED TO MSU AND MERIT NETWORK TO DELIVER STATEWIDE BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE

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Project to create Michigan Open Optical Network – Leveraging Innovation to Get High-Speed Technology (MOON-Light) East Lansing, Mich., June 27, 2022 – Merit Network and Michigan State University are joint recipients of a $10.5 million National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Broadband Infrastructure Program Grant that will connect Michigan’s many disparate Internet pathways. This program, named the Michigan Open Optical Network – Leveraging Innovation to Get High-Speed Technology (MOON-Light), will help address critical infrastructure gaps by enabling technologically advanced, middle-mile fiber optic infrastructure across the state.  It will allow interconnecting local Internet service providers (ISPs) to bring affordable, robust, high-speed broadband Internet to homes and businesses in Michigan’s underserved/unserved population […]
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24 Jun 2022

2022 Brandt Fellowship Awarded to Keith Hampton

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Brandt Fellowship for Faculty Excellence The fellowship program is in its second year and is supported by the Ned Brandt Faculty Excellence Fund, named for late alumnus Ellis “Ned” Brandt (BA ’43 Journalism). Brandt, a prominent Michigan philanthropist with a storied career in journalism and public relations, left a gift to the College of Communication Arts and Sciences through his estate to continue his legacy through a series of endowed professorships in all facets of communication. The one-year fellowship recognizes excellence in research, scholarship or creative work by faculty in MSU’s College of Communication Arts and Sciences. All full-time faculty members in […]
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03 Nov 2017

Sandi Smith Receives Recognition as MSU Distinguished Professor

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Professor Sandi Smith in the Department of Communication of the College of Communication Arts & Sciences at MSU was named of the University’s few Distinguished Professors at a ceremony yesterday at the University Club. She joins Professor Bradley Greenberg, one of her mentors, who received this recognition in 1990. Sandi and the other newly elected professors featured in a video about their research and teaching. I think everyone in the audience was ready to declare a new major and return to university to work with scholar-teachers like Sandi and the others honored yesterday. They were all seriously inspirational, talented, and […]
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