2025 Student Paper Competition Winners

The following papers were selected by a committee of TPRC community members in a blind review. These papers will be presented at TPRC53 and awards will be announced at the luncheon on Saturday, September 20, 2025.

Sean Norick Long

So Yun Anh

Seungyeon Ha

Dongwook Joeong

Illan Barriola

Redha Chaba

First Place:

"The Antitrust Stack: A Computational Analysis of Lina Khan's Legacy"

Sean Norick Long, Georgetown University Law Center & Harvard Kennedy School 

 

Second Place:

Why You Can't Use Google Maps in South Korea: A Case Study of Platform Power vs Digital Sovereignty

Soyun Ahn, University of Southern California 

Seungyeon Ha, Korea University

 

Third Place (Tie):

"Revisiting the Competition-Diversity Debate: A Comparative Study of Local Radio Playlists and Spotify’s Recommendation Algorithm"

Dongwook Jeong, The Pennsylvania State University

 

"The Death of Distance: Mobile Internet and Political Trust in Africa"

Redha Chaba, Paris Panthéon Assas University

Illan Barriola, Paris Panthéon Assas University