{"id":10504,"date":"2020-05-07T15:06:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T19:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sis.utk.edu\/?p=10504"},"modified":"2020-05-07T15:06:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T19:06:54","slug":"sis-faculty-award-recipients-associate-professors-awa-zhu-and-devendra-potnis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cci.utk.edu\/sis\/2020\/05\/07\/sis-faculty-award-recipients-associate-professors-awa-zhu-and-devendra-potnis\/","title":{"rendered":"SIS Faculty Award Recipients: Associate Professors Awa Zhu and Devendra Potnis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"e2ma-style\"><strong>SIS Associate Professor Awa Zhu<\/strong> was awarded the 2020 SIS Bonnie Carroll and <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-10506\" src=\"https:\/\/sis.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Awa_Zhu_headshot2019-351x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"285\" \/>Roy Cooper Faculty Enrichment Award for the cumulative research she has done over the past two years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"e2ma-style\">\u201cI was so excited. I don\u2019t have a lot of publications, so I was very surprised, and [SIS Director Diane Kelly] said that the award committee praised my publication quality,\u201d she said<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"e2ma-style\">Zhu\u2019s recognized research includes a reworked chapter from her dissertation published in \u201cInformation &amp; Culture\u201d that discusses the early information searching system LexisNexis and the users\u2019 role in shaping and developing that technology<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"e2ma-style\">\u201cA lot of people think that technology changes society, but actually people play a more important role in the development of technology than we would normally think,\u201d Zhu explained<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"e2ma-style\">She has also published research about open government data and digital ownership and rights; Zhu said she will be exploring the latter topic more when she is on sabbatical this fall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"e2ma-style\"><strong>SIS Associate Professor Devendra Potnis<\/strong> received the Gloria and Dave Sharrar<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7253 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sis.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/WEB_Potnis_Devendra.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/> Faculty Research Fund Award this year for research on hashtags as gatekeepers of information communicated over social media.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"e2ma-style\">Potnis said that he and CCI doctoral student Iman Tahamtan will empirically examine different ways in which hashtags on Twitter can be used for understanding and addressing global pandemics such as Covid-19. Potnis said he knew that his research proposal was a strong one, and that he was happy to learn when the award was announced to fund it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"e2ma-style\">\u201cThe proposal is solid, the idea is fresh, novel, and it has the potential to make an impact in terms of practice,\u201d he said. \u201cIn terms of theory, it will contribute to the gatekeeping literature in information science.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SIS Associate Professor Awa Zhu was awarded the 2020 SIS Bonnie Carroll and Roy Cooper Faculty Enrichment Award for the cumulative research she has done over the past two years. \u201cI was so excited. 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