As every year, a committee of RC51 members carefully followed all presentations delivered during the 2017 RC51 Sessions within the 14th International Conference of Sociocybernetics in Medellín, and picked one.
Congratulation to the winner of the Walter Buckley Memorial Award on Excellence in presenting Sociocybernetics 2017: David Karminski Katz, for his presentation Building the meanings of Death. An approach from complex systems to news stories of death.
A complete list of the winners of previous editions is available in Buckley Award page.