Professor Mark Lowes of the University’s Department of Communication will receive the 2007 Urban Communication Jane Jacobs Award for a book he co-edited, entitled Urban Communication: Production, Text, Context (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006). Professor Timothy Gibson of James Mason University’s Department of Communication is the co-editor and joint recipient.
The New York-based Urban Communication Foundation (UCF) promotes and supports research in urban communication. It also recognizes noteworthy scholarship in this area. Lowes and Gibson will be recognized by the UCF on November 15 at the National Communication Association’s annual meeting in Chicago.
The award-winning volume of essays brings together scholars from communication, cultural studies and urban sociology to explore the symbolic dimensions of contemporary city-building, drawing on case studies from around the world.
