2023 Love of Learning Award Recipient
Enrique Nunez-Mussa has been selected as a recipients of this year’s Love of Learning award. Each year, through a competitive process, Phi Kappa Phi distributes two hundred Love of Learning Awards, at $1,000 each, to members who have completed their bachelor’s degree, for the purpose of continuing their studies or professional development.
Enrique Núñez-Mussa is a Fulbright scholar and a Ph.D. student in the Information and Media program at the School of Journalism of Michigan State University.
He is an external graduate student affiliated with the Center for Latinx Digital Media of Northwestern University and the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life of UNC Chapel Hill.
His research interests are journalism's societal function, authority, discourse, and norms. At Michigan State, as a graduate assistant, Enrique is an instructor of record of journalism undergraduate courses; before, he was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of Journalism of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), where he was the faculty advisor of the Journalism School's fact-checking initiative and online magazine.
He has worked on projects about misinformation and fact-checking, digital news, journalism and democracy, such as the Chilean chapters of the Digital News Report and The Media for Democracy Monitor. His work has been published in book chapters and journals like Communication & Society, Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico, Comunicación y Sociedad, and Obra Digital.
He holds a Master Erasmus Mundus in Journalism, Media, and Globalization at Aarhus University with a joint degree in Journalism and Media Across Cultures at Hamburg University. His BA is in Social Communication, with a Major in Journalism and a Minor in Literature from PUC. He also holds a certificate in Photojournalism from Aarhus University and one in University Teaching from PUC.
Enrique will be using funds from the Phi Kappa Phi Love of Learning Award to cover expenses to attend the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, taking place in Washington, D.C., from August 7th to 10th of 2023. You can find more information about the conference at this link: https://community.aejmc.org/conference/home. Where he will present an original research paper titled "The Illusio Paradox: Metajournalistic Discourse in Columns and Editorials about the Nobel Peace Prize of 2021."