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Ideas Podcast: Taken for Granted

Awards and Recognition

• Winner of the Charles Horton Cooley Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
• Winner of the Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form, Media Ecology Association