{"51042":{"#nid":"51042","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Alumna \u0026 Ph.D. Student Wins Law Writing Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIncoming Ph.D. student (and Georgia Tech bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ngraduate) Casey Fiesler has received a 2009 Burton Award for an article\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nshe published in the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLaw.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EModeled after the Pulitzer Prizes, the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.burtonawards.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBurton Awards for Legal Achievement\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nbegan in 1999 as a way to honor the best writing in the legal\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nprofession. Fiesler, who earned her M.S. in the human-computer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ninteraction program and whose doctoral work will be in human-centered\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ncomputing, wrote \u201cEverything I Need to Know I Learned from Fandom: How\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nExisting Social Norms Can Help Shape the Next Generation of\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nUser-Generated Content\u201d while in law school at Vanderbilt in Nashville,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTenn. She received her Burton Award at a ceremony at the Library of\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCongress in Washington on June 15, a month after she picked up her law\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ndegree from Vanderbilt.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMy writing draws on an eclectic mix of\u003Cbr \/\u003E\neducation, passion and perspective--plus the breadth of my considerable\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nreading,\u201d Fiesler said. \u201cIt\u0027s heartening to see that the legal\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ncommunity responding to the voice I\u0027ve developed, and I\u0027m grateful to\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nbe honored with this award.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIncoming Ph.D. student (and Georgia Tech bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s graduate) Casey Fiesler has received a 2009 Burton Award for an article she published in the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law. Source: Office of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:39:59","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:23","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-06-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-06-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}