{"67802":{"#nid":"67802","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Alumna \u0026 Ph.D. Student Wins Law Writing Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIncoming Ph.D. student (and Georgia Tech bachelor\u0027s and master\u0027sgraduate) Casey Fiesler has received a 2009 Burton Award for an articleshe published in the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and TechnologyLaw.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EModeled after the Pulitzer Prizes, the \u003Ca href=\u0022\/\/www.burtonawards.com\/\u0026quot;\u0022 target=\u0022\u0026quot;_blank\u0026quot;\u0022\u003EBurton Awards for Legal Achievement\u003C\/a\u003Ebegan in 1999 as a way to honor the best writing in the legalprofession. Fiesler, who earned her M.S. in the human-computerinteraction program and whose doctoral work will be in human-centeredcomputing, wrote \u0026quot;Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Fandom: HowExisting Social Norms Can Help Shape the Next Generation ofUser-Generated Content\u0026quot; while in law school at Vanderbilt in Nashville,Tenn. She received her Burton Award at a ceremony at the Library ofCongress in Washington on June 15, a month after she picked up her lawdegree from Vanderbilt.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026quot;My writing draws on an eclectic mix ofeducation, passion and perspective--plus the breadth of my considerablereading,\u0026quot; Fiesler said. \u0026quot;It\u0027s heartening to see that the legalcommunity responding to the voice I\u0027ve developed, and I\u0027m grateful tobe honored with this award.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIncoming Ph.D. student (and Georgia Tech bachelor\u0027s and master\u0027s 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":"2011-06-20 17:11:44","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:56","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":""}}}