UNC Students Earn Top Paper Awards

The UNC Center for Media Law and Policy is thrilled to announce that two graduates from UNC’s dual-degree MA/JD program have been accepted to present their research at the 2022 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) annual conference. These two students also received special recognition: First Place and Second Place in the Top Faculty Paper category.

Evan RingelEvan Ringel, a 2021 MA/JD graduate and current Roy H. Park Doctoral Fellow, was awarded First Place, Top Faculty Paper for his article “Regulating Facial Recognition Technology & the First Amendment.” His article was co-authored with Dr. Amanda Reid. Ringel’s article is an extension of his master’s thesis work and examines the constitutional and practical difficulties in regulating facial recognition technology (FRT) at the state and local level. Ringel and Reid develop a regulatory hierarchy through a statutory analysis of each FRT-related proposed state law from the 2020 legislative session before examining how the First Amendment may limit certain types of FRT regulation.

Isabela Palmieri, a 2022 MA/JD graduate, was awarded Second Place, Top Faculty Paper for her article “Copyright & Shareability: A Contractual Solution to Embedding via Social Media.” Her article was co-authored with Dr. Amanda Reid. Palmieri’s article is an extension of her thesis work and it focuses on the tension between copyright law and an online content-sharing practice: embedding. Palmieri and Reid apply a multi-method approach to analyze the statutory interpretation of the 1976 Copyright Act and platforms’ Terms of Service and User Agreements. Ultimately, they crafted and propose model User Agreement terms that social media platforms can adopt to license embedding online and foster shareability.

In August, Ringel and Palmieri will present their papers at the 2022 AEJMC conference in Detroit, Michigan.

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