2019 Radio Show Student Scholars is open for Applications
Get a head start on your career in radio! Back by popular demand, the Student Scholars Program offers college undergraduate and graduate students registration scholarships to attend the RAB and NAB 2019 Radio Show in Dallas, September 24-27. The Radio Show is a premiere conference where the entire radio industry comes together to network and learn. Learn More…
April 2019 President's Corner - Tony Demars
As I begin my new year of leadership in BEA, I want to do my best to connect with each individual member. I want to start by talking about my own experiences, in hopes it will help some of you who are relatively new to BEA.
When I started getting involved in BEA over 20 years ago, I felt uncertain and a bit intimidated. I had been teaching for several years but had just finished my Ph.D. I was part of a panel, but not sure about my audience. Read More…
JOBEM — Special Issue Paper Call: Uses and Effects of Smart Media: How AI Impacts User Experience
The increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into digital media technologies has provided additional affordances and altered the nature of user experience, providing new audience engagement and gratification opportunities that meet human needs for information, communication and entertainment in a variety of innovative ways.
These AI-driven smart media have helped usher in a new media environment where social bots are used to spread false information, a 360-degree view provides a panoramic look of a natural disaster event – and augmented reality is used to aid strategic communication objectives – including both commercial and prosocial campaigns. Likewise, from personalized movie offerings on Amazon and Netflix to digital virtual assistants such as Siri and Alexa, a number of new AI-based tools, mobile apps and devices have changed the nature of our media consumption and habits. Learn More…
Journal of Media Education (JoME) – Call for Creative Submissions
Deadline: July 1, 2019
The Journal of Media Education (JoME) announces a call for creative submissions for the upcoming October 2019 issue. As part of our commitment to making JoME the premier online publication for media educators, all creative submissions will be peer-reviewed.
We accept creative work in:
Audio
Interactive Multimedia
Narrative and Documentary Film/Video
News
Sports
Scriptwriting