2025, Association for Information Systems (AIS), International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2025 Outstanding Reviewer.
2023, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-56), Best Paper Award (Minitrack: Mediated Conversation, Digital and Social Media Track) for paper, "Incivility on Popular Politics and News Subreddits: An Analysis of In-groups, Community Guidelines and Relationships with Social Media Engagement."
2020, The University of Colorado Boulder, Provost's Faculty Achievement Award for Pre-Tenure Faculty. For the article: "The agenda–setting power of fake news: A big data analysis of the online media landscape from 2014 to 2016." Awarded $1,000.
2018, JMCQ Outstanding Research Article of the Year Winner for: Vargo, C., & Guo, L. (2017). Networks, big data, and intermedia agenda–setting: An analysis of traditional, partisan, and emerging online U.S. news. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 94(4), 1031–1055.
2017, Top Faculty Paper, Journalism Studies Division, ICA International Conference in San Diego, CA.