Name: Laila Abbas Laila Abbas, a Ph.D. student and teaching assistant in the SJMC, was recently awarded the Top Dissertation Award Honorable Mention from the International Communication Association’s (ICA) Activism, Communication and Social Justice Interest Group. Her thesis, “Emotionally Stimulated Activism on TikTok: The Impact of Exposure to Audiovisual Moral Violation on Collective Action in the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ Movement,” explores how digital content can spark political e...
