Congratulations to the BEA2022 Interest Division’s Top Paper Competition Winners!
All winners will present their research during the virtual or in-person portions of BEA’s 2022 convention. Please check the online program for dates, times and session descriptions.
GENDER & SEXUALITY DIVISION
Debut Paper Competition
1st Place Debut Winner: There’s No Hate Like Christian Love: Discrimination of LGBTQ+ Students at Private Catholic Universities; Madeleine Elizabeth Scherler, Seattle University
Open Paper Competition
1st Place Open Winner: HoopGurlz’s biased recruiting: Racial and positional stereotyping in girls’ basketball scouting reports; Travis R. Bell, University of South Florida & Stephanie Rosado, University of South Florida
HISTORY DIVISION
Debut Paper Competition
1st Place Debut Winner: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Freedom of Speech Path Markers; Shiela Hawkins, University of Tennessee
2nd Place Debut Winner: The History of Technology and Education in the age of Internet; Elicia Patrice Frelix, Regent University
Open Paper Competition
1st Place Open Winner: And the News Just Keeps On Coming: CKLW 20/20 News; Kevin Curran, Loyola Marymount University
2nd Place Open Winner: The Mouth of the South: An Exploration of the Contributions of Bill Currie, Voice of the Tar Heels, to the Rise of UNC and Atlantic Coast Conference Basketball; Daniel Haygood, Elon University
INTERACTIVE MEDIA & EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES DIVISION
Debut Paper Competition
1st Place Debut Winner: Citizen Engagement through Government and Official Social Media Platforms during the COVID-19 Crisis: A case study of the CDC; Mohammed Huraysi, University of North Texas
2nd Place Debut Winner: Rebounds in Communication Cultures: Scanning Through McLuhan’s Maxims; Zainul Abedin, Mississippi Valley State University
Open Paper Competition
1st Place Open Winner: To share or not to share? A content analysis of tweets about COVID-19 vaccine passports using a privacy framework; Amanda Damiano, Marist College
INTERNATIONAL DIVISION
Open Paper Competition
1st Place Open Winner: Netflix, Spanish Television, and La casa de papel: Growing Global and Local TV Together in the Multiplatform Era; Gary R. Edgerton, Butler University
LAW & POLICY DIVISION
Debut Paper Competition
1st Place Debut Winner: A Marxian Perspective on the American Net Neutrality Debate; Shiela Hawkins, University of Tennessee
2nd Place Debut Winner: Should the U.S. Supreme Court Revisit the Sullivan v New York Times Co.?; Nikki Emi Wong; Brynn Shaffer; Caroline Mackinney Walker & Shaunt Dawson, Loyola Marymount University
Open Paper Competition
1st Place Open Winner: Shifting Perspectives: How COVID-19 and In-Home Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Impacted U.S. Residential Internet Perceptions; Jamie Greig, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
2nd Place Open Winner: Protecting the Nurseries of Democracy: The Future of Student Speech Rights After Mahanoy Area School District v. B. L.; Dale Herbeck, Northeastern University
MANAGEMENT, MARKETING & PROGRAMMING DIVISION
Debut Paper Competition
1st Place Debut Winner: Analysis on Time Series Data from Movie by Recurrent Neural Network Model and MF-DCCA Method under the Internet of Things; Ruomu Miao, Shanghai Jiaotong University
2nd Place Debut Winner: A Study of Student Television in Wisconsin; Florence Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Open Paper Competition
1st Place Open Winner: It’s All About Me Even If It Appears to Be About You: Narcissism and Facebook Self-Promotion Through Personal Visual Posting and Corporate Content Sharing; Todd Holmes, California State University – Northridge
2nd Place Open Winner: Investigating Learner Traits and Perceived Benefits of Certification Affecting Self-Directed Online Skill Education Adoption Intentions: A Mixed Method Approach During the COVID-19 Pandemic; Claire Youngnyo Joa, Middle Georgia State University, Mohammad Abuljadail, King Abdulaziz University & Louisa Ha, Bowling Green State University
MULTICULTURAL STUDIES DIVISION
Debut Paper Competition
1st Place Debut Winner: Social comparison in the natural hair care community: How Black women utilize social media influencers during their natural hair care journey; JaMirah Borden, University of Montevallo
2nd Place Debut Winner: Arab Diaspora Social Media platforms in Sweden: Amidst Utopia and Dystopia; Mahitab Ezz El Din; Linnaeus University
Open Paper Competition
1st Place Open Winner: “Compose Yourself…Like Michelle or Oprah”: 2020’s Impact on the Social Identity of Black Women Newscasters; Guy Harrison; University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Denetra Walker; University of South Carolina & Charli Kerns; Knox County Schools
2nd Place Open Winner: Tale of Two Cities: The Role of Routines and Ownership in Presentation of Black Males on Television News; Danielle Deavours, University of Montevallo, George Daniels; University of Alabama & Keonte Coleman, University of Alabama
NEWS DIVISION
Open Paper Competition
1st Place Open Winner: Human or Machine? How much difference in understanding and trust does a human element make in storm forecasts?; Robert Eicher, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Lakelyn E. Taylor, University of Central Florida & Tim Brown, University of Central Florida
2nd Place Open Winner: Adversaries Over Tragedy: The Influence of Role Performance and Framing on Nonverbal Neutrality in School Shooting Coverage; Danielle F. Deavours, University of Montevallo
PRODUCTION AESTHETICS & CRITICISM DIVISION
Open Paper Competition
1st Place Open Winner: Teaching Filmed Theatre: Adaptation, Collaboration and Creativity During Pandemic…or is This the New Normal?; Susan Cardillo, University of Hartford
2nd Place Open Winner: Squid Game’s Spatial Dialectics, Its Withering Mass Ornaments, and Other Large Objects in the Frame; Charles Rodney Metts, California State University San Bernardino
RELIGION & MEDIA DIVISION
Debut Paper Competition
1st Place Debut Winner: The Blob is a Christian Film. Sort of – A Generic Study of The Blob (1958) and Birth of the paraB-Movie Colony; Chris Mich, Regent University
Open Paper Competition
1st Place Open Winner: Still fighting the God-vs.-gays battle: Twitter reaction to presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg’s identification as a gay member of the Christian Left; Joe Bob Hester & Rhonda Gibson, UNC Chapel Hill
RESEARCH DIVISION
Debut Paper Competition
1st Place Debut Winner: Diffusion of Innovation Theory and How Politically Conservative Media Dissuades COVID-19 Vaccine Adoption; Lily Panetta, Seattle University
2nd Place Debut Winner: Young citizens and the Quality of news: Attention, emotional reactions and quality assessments; Kristoffer Holt, Mahitab Ezz El Din, Mats Wahlberg, Ari Nykvist & Renaud de la Brosse; Linnaeus University
Open Paper Competition
1st Place Open Winner: The Road to Moral Superiority Was Paved with Hate-Watching: A Qualitative Examination of Why People Watch Things They Hate; T. Phillip Madison, Lauren A. Auverset, Kelsey L. Chauvin & Dian Puspusari, University of Louisiana – Lafayette
2nd Place Open Winner: Camera movement as nonverbal communication: An Adaptation of Heider and Simmel (1944); Ben Lynn; University of Florida Presenter: Roxane Coche; University of Florida
SPORTS DIVISION
Open Paper Competition
1st Place Open Winner: Olympics during the Pandemic: Predictors of Olympics Viewing across Platforms during the Tokyo Games; Authors – Tang Tang, Kent State University & Roger Cooper, Ohio University
2nd Place Open Winner: Pandemic Podcasting: Covering Sports When the World Stops; Authors – Ryan Broussard; Lindsey A. Sherrill, University of North Alabama; Marcus Funk, Sam Houston State University
STUDENT MEDIA ADVISORS DIVISION
Debut Paper Competition
1st Place Debut Winner: COVID-19’s impact on student media organizations in the United States; Stephanie Anderson, Murray State University