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Saturday, April 11
 

1:00pm PDT

BEA Festival of Media Arts Committee Meeting
BEA Festival of Media Arts Committee Chair: Lowell A. Briggs, York College of Pennsylvania

Saturday April 11, 2015 1:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
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Sunday, April 12
 

9:00am PDT

Either underrepresented or misrepresented: Racial minorities on screen
This panel examines contemporary representations of racial and ethnic minorities on TV and film, and discusses the social politics of racial identity influenced heavily by how minorities appear in media contents. Prior literature has found that popular TV shows and films are prone to misrepresentation of racial minorities. Hypersexuality, typified domestic and social roles, and stereotypical character personalities are common in popular visual media. For example minority females are often depicted in traditional gendered roles, while male characters are described as being shallow or buffoonish in character. The rapidly changing landscape of demographics has not been correctly reflected on screen either, indicating the persistent problem of underrepresentation. Albeit the explosion of visual media products due to new technologies the representation of minorities has remained a critical topic in media communication, and, therefore, needs to be investigated with frequent scholarly updates. This panel will contribute to the scholarship with discussions about contemporary cases and agendas.
Moderator: Choonghee Han, Hope College
Panelists: Choonghee Han, Hope College; Asian characters in sitcoms: Did their images improve as they took major roles?
Chetachi Egwu, Nova Southeastern University; Black Women,  Faith and Spirituality in Reality TV.
Maria A. Williams-Hawkins, Ball State University; Is the Medium the Message?: The Representation of Latinas in News Versus Entertainment Programming
Kingsley Antwi-Boasiako, Ohio University; The Image of Africans in the Western Media

Sunday April 12, 2015 9:00am - 10:15am PDT
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10:30am PDT

Revolution or Evolution: How media describes the change in gender roles in the early 21st century
This panel has gathered together case study style presentations that look at the ways media is "playing out" gender roles on our multiple screens in a wide selection of programming. We wonder, are past gender roles being reified, or do newer media platforms bring out new gender roles and issues? This panel aims to deepen our understanding of what might be revolutionary, and what might be evolutionary about today's programming in the area of gender roles.
Moderator: Stacey O. Irwin, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Panelists: Robert N. Spicer, Millersville University of Pennsylvania; Fear, Sex, Motherhood, and Maturity: Gender Relations in The Big Bang Theory
Katie McColloug, Rutgers University; Pinning a Personal Web
Lowery Woodall, Millersville University of Pennsylvania; But I Don't Want to be a Diva: The Failure of the PG Era in the WWE to Address Female Stereotyping
James Lohrey, Mercyhurst University; Representations from the Heartland to TV’s Homeland: Analyzing Gender (In)Equality in Showtime’s Homeland

Sunday April 12, 2015 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
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12:00pm PDT

The Reality of Virtual Reality: Applications of the Oculus Rift
Since its acquisition by Facebook, the Oculus Rift has become known to a more general population beyond that of its origins in the more hardcore computer gaming sector and its Kickstarter backers. Although the Oculus aims to finally realize the decades-old dream of virtual reality to computer and console users, what exactly is the reality of its application? This panel will address the use of the Oculus Rift for video games, simulations, and business development.
Moderator: Stefan Hall, High Point University
Panelists: Steven Michael Smith, High Point University
Taylor Tornatore, High Point University
 Kira Foglesong, High Point University
Eli Morris, High Point University
Sam Schoenfeld, High Point University

Sunday April 12, 2015 12:00pm - 1:15pm PDT
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1:30pm PDT

Your College Radio Station: Programming, Promoting and Recruiting - The Saga Continues!
This popular panel returns to BEA ‘15 with more college radio Station Managers/PDs/Faculty Advisors sharing some of their best practices, experiences (=read: "lessons learned the hard ways"), and advice! If you are in charge of a college radio station, need recruitment tips, looking to make a splash in your community with a killer promotion, or want to revitalize your programming, this panel will address several questions: When & how do you know to adjust your progamming choices? How do you best recruit and train your students? Feel to bring copies of your own station’s handbooks, training documents or procedure/policy manuals and share with other colleges! What are some creative and cost-effective promotions that have worked with your target demo or increased sampling/cume? Our experienced panelists will answer these questions and discuss their own experiences, but we hope you bring your ideas, questions, and best practices to share! You’ll walk away full of practical ideas ready to implement at your station as soon as you get home!
Moderator: Albert Kim, Manchester Community College
Panelists: Jennifer Williamson, Virginia State University
Chad Roberts, Central Michigan University
Jim Gray, St. Cloud State University
Thomas J. Vesci, Asnuntuck Community College Moderator: Albert Kim, Manchester Community College
Panelists: Jim Gray, Saint Cloud State University
Chad J. Roberts, Central Michigan University; Panelists: Jennifer Williamson, Virginia State University; Panelists: Thomas J. Vesci, Asnuntuck Community College

Sunday April 12, 2015 1:30pm - 2:45pm PDT
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3:00pm PDT

Large Scale Collaboration Leads to Impact: How the WCSJ&MC teamed up with the Arizona Broadcasters Association to produce Hooked: Tracking Heroin's Hold on Arizona

Learn about the significant partnership between ABA and the Cronkite School on the project: Hooked: Tracking Heroin’s Hold on Arizona – a half hour for TV and Radio in Spanish & English opening up the heart of this crisis in Arizona.

Panelists: Art Brooks, Arizona Broadcasters Association

Mark Lodato, Arizona State University


Sunday April 12, 2015 3:00pm - 4:15pm PDT
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4:30pm PDT

End to End: Building a Streaming Video Solution Fit for Your Institution

Streaming is becoming a key component in many universities and organizations. As streaming continues to grow, so too does the need for a customized workflow.

By choosing best-of-breed technology, new and expert streamers can put together the video delivery system that fits their exact specifications. 

Join streaming industry leaders from Telestream, JW Player and Wowza Media Systems as they discuss best practices in building out a streaming infrastructure that can help your educational institution— from video capture to website playback. 

The experts will cover the end-to-end implementation of a custom streaming workflow, from the camera to the viewing device, including…

  • Production, encoding, transcoding, distribution, and playback
  • Benefits and pitfalls of do-it-yourself video streaming
  • How to connect the major pieces of a streaming architecture
  • Real-life example of a streaming platform

Speakers:

Tom Prehn - Telestream

Eric Boyd – JW Player

Chris Knowlton – Wowza Media Systems


Sunday April 12, 2015 4:30pm - 6:00pm PDT
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Monday, April 13
 

8:30am PDT

Research Division Business Meeting
The Research Division supports the work of BEA members whose interests include telecommunication research, methodolgy and interests not served by other divisions. No methodology is excluded. Their goals are to encourage all BEA members interested in research to join the division; to provide forums for discussion on issues in broadcast and electronic media research; and to provide leadership roles in shaping the future of broadcast and electronic media research.
Chair: Thomas Baggerman, Point Park University
Panelist: Lawrence Mullen, University of Nevada @ Las Vegas
Suzann Svatek, Texas A&M University at Commerce
Joshua Sites, Indiana University

Monday April 13, 2015 8:30am - 9:45am PDT
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10:00am PDT

'Have you thought about just putting it on YouTube?': Exploring the benefits and challenges of linear media for student productions
Student-produced programming is an important pedagogical tool, but securing the best form of distribution can be challenge. The digital revolution has opened up more forms of distribution, but is it always the best choice to "put it on YouTube?" What are the benefits and challenges of producing content for traditional linear distribution models? This panel will examine the pedagogical, financial, and organizational factors that faculty and administrators face when deciding how to distribute content. Moderator: Amy Crawford, Youngstown State University
Panelists: Fred Owens, Youngstown State University
Bradley L. Weaver, Westminster College, Pennsylvania
Diane Guerrazzi, San Jose State University
Dave Fisher, The Ohio State University
Brian Sheridan, Mercyhurst University

Monday April 13, 2015 10:00am - 11:15am PDT
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11:30am PDT

Running the Option Play: Can (or Should) Sports Journalists Be Taught How to Be Sports Personalities?
Never before have sports journalists been under so much pressure to raise their public profile in digital media and to maintain a “personal brand.” This all-star panel addresses how journalism schools could better prepare students to become “sports personalities.” To be considered: What is the line between being a sports journalist and being a sports personality? And how does a social media-friendly “personal brand" affect the editorial judgement of a sports journalist?
Moderator: Kenneth A. Fischer, University of Oklahoma
Panelists: Ian C. Punnett, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Miles Romney, Arizona State University
Marie C. Hardin, Pennsylvania State University
Marianne Barrett, Arizona State University
John Hanson, Program Director, 610 Sports Radio-Kansas City, former program director of ESPN Radio 920/Fox Sports Radio 1460-Las Vegas
Barry Orr, University of Oklahoma

Monday April 13, 2015 11:30am - 12:45pm PDT
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1:00pm PDT

Student Media Advisors Business Meeting
The Student Media Advisors Division's mission is to provide a forum for the person responsible for supervising and/or advising student-operated media outlets. The goals of the division are to stimulate awareness and discussion of existing issues and related problems to student-operated electronic outlets on campuses; to encourage dissemination of information about the impact of student operations to professional colleagues in the field; and to foster and promote the teaching of information connected with the operation of any outlet where students are the primary workforces as a substantive area of the disciplines of broadcasting/media.
Chair: Chad J. Roberts, Central Michigan University
Panelists: Sam Lovato, Colorado State University - Pueblo
Phil R Hoffman, University of Central Missouri
Jenna Mangino, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Monday April 13, 2015 1:00pm - 2:15pm PDT
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2:30pm PDT

National Media Policies and Transnational Media Contents
This panel’s research papers examine national policy development and transnational media content around the world, with a specific emphasis on Asia. Policy and content are intertwined in the recent spate of media policy revisions resulting from technological evolution, political change, and the appearance of new media platforms. This panel will look at the relationships between policy and media content through analyses of five case studies.
Moderator: Drew McDaniel, Ohio University
Panelists: Jennifer Bell, Ohio University; Brand Britain: How popular British TV shows capitalize on and commodify signifiers of Britishness for global audiences.
Masudul Biswas, Loyola University Maryland; New Broadcast Policy in Bangladesh: Will it curtail the freedom?
Quan Xie, Bradley University; Propaganda, Commercialization, and Presentation of “Chinese Dream”: The Usage of Micro-blogging among Chinese Television Networks
Chalisa Magpanthong, Bangkok University; Drew McDaniel, Ohio University; The Asian transition to digital broadcasting: Thailand enters a new television era
Yearry Panji Setianto, Ohio University; Nuurianti Jalli, Ohio University; Transnational Media Flow in the Malay world: Media Policy of Cross-border Broadcasting Content in Indonesia and Malaysia

Monday April 13, 2015 2:30pm - 3:45pm PDT
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4:00pm PDT

Interactive Media & Emerging Technologies Division - Top Paper Presentations

Please join us as we hear the top papers presented from the Interactive Media & Emerging Technologies Division.   Vice Chair/Paper Competition Chair: Jacob Enfield, California State University-Northridge

Debut Paper Competition 1st Place: Ginger Blackstone, University of Florida; Holly Cowart, University of Florida; Lynsey Saunders, University of Florida; TweetStorm in Ferguson: How News Organizations Framed Authority and Political Figures in a Restive Community 

2nd Place:  Xiaoqun Zhang, University of North Texas; Exploring the SNS Usage Activities: Conceptual Framework and Empirical Study of Prosumption

 

Open Paper Competition 1st Place: Jennifer Henderson, Trinity University; Aaron Delwiche, Trinity University; The New Family Game Night: Intergenerational Videogame Play

2nd Place: Raluca Cozma, Iowa State University, Tara Pardue-Lackey, Iowa State University; Twitter as Information Subsidy in the News Coverage of the Syrian Crisis 


Monday April 13, 2015 4:00pm - 5:15pm PDT
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Tuesday, April 14
 

7:30am PDT

District 5 Meeting
Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas
Distrcit 5 Representative: Tony DeMars, Texas A&M University at Commerce

Tuesday April 14, 2015 7:30am - 8:45am PDT
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9:00am PDT

Media in Warsaw Pact Member States
Twenty-five years ago the Warsaw Pact began dissolving as the member states’ governments lost the support of the weakening USSR and their citizens fomented revolutions. This panel will explore the history of media in Eastern Bloc countries during the years of the Warsaw Pact (1955-91) and media development in those countries in the years since its dissolution.
Moderator: Susan L. Brinson, Auburn University
Panelists: J. Duane Meeks, Palm Beach Atlantic University
Mary Beadle, John Carroll University
Susan Lewis, Abilene Christian University

Tuesday April 14, 2015 9:00am - 10:15am PDT
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10:30am PDT

Drones and Media Studies: A Multi-dimensional Look at the Past and Future
Drones are cheap, fairly simple to use, and could potentially change the way we advertise, collect news, and see the world. As we enter the uncertain terrain of drone technology and its journalistic, message delivery, advertising, surveillance, and other media applications, new research opportunities lend themselves to us. This diverse panel examines several angles of this technology including its visual aesthetic, legal, technological, philosophical, and cultural implications.
Moderator: Olesya Venger, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Panelists: Lawrence Mullen, University of Nevada @ Las Vegas; A History of the Aerial Perspective: Implications for Drone Journalism
Julian Kilker, University of Nevada @ Las Vegas; Deskilling and Drones: Lessons from Recent Imaging Innovations
Gary Larson, University of Nevada @ Las Vegas; Drones, Ender's Game, and the Reluctant Hegemon
Stephen Bates, University of Nevada @ Las Vegas; The Right to Be Let Alone in the Age of Drones

Tuesday April 14, 2015 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
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12:15pm PDT

Motion Capture Technology
Since the invention of film, equipment has fluctuated from the weight of a boat anchor to a helmet clip-on. While image-capture camera technology has evolved, the skills of the users have as well. As legacy media outlets and information/education channels continue to evolve, how does the trend of adding quick and easy video clips impact the work of the professional videographer? How does one learn the art and craft of effective visual storytelling?   The primary goal is to investigate the following research questions: -How do visual storytellers using motion image capture technology adapt to each succeeding technology to remain effective in their jobs; -who makes decisions on when to adopt a new technology and –what have these changes meant to curriculum development.
Moderator: Joanne Littlefield, Colorado State University
Panelists: Mike Conway, Indiana University
 Ginger Blackstone, University of Florida
Thomas Cznarty, SUNY - New Paltz
Joanne Littlefield, Colorado State University
James Wertz, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania; The evolution of skills and networking related to motion capture technology

Tuesday April 14, 2015 12:15pm - 1:30pm PDT
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1:45pm PDT

News Division - Top Paper Presentations

Please join us as we hear the top papers presented from the News Division.  
Vice Chair/Paper Competition Chair: Lydia Timmins, University of Delaware

Open Paper Competition
1st Place: Clark Greer, Liberty University; Assessing Consonance and Differences in News on Local TV Station iPad Apps

2nd Place:  Shuhua Zhou, University of Alabama; Effects of Face-ism on Perception of Male and Female News Sources

3rd Place: Charlie Gee, Duquesne University, Giselle Auger, Duquesne University, Zeynep Tanes-Ehle, Duquesne University; Exploring the Role of Newsgathering Technologies on Perceived Story Quality 


Tuesday April 14, 2015 1:45pm - 3:00pm PDT
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3:30pm PDT

I always feel like somebody’s watching me: Location-based advertising

As products get closer and closer to their target markets—literally—the study of advertising is changing. This panel is a close-up view of the newest aspect of interactive advertising and the audiences who love it as well as those who are creeped out by it. Current definition: "LBA integrates mobile advertising with location-based services such as GPS, pinpointing consumers’ locations and providing location-specific advertisements on their mobile devices. LBA allows marketers to reach specific target audiences and improve the importance of ads with relevant information, personalized message and targeted offers. This can also be used to research consumers and tailor future offers."
Moderator: Linda Thorsen Bond, Stephen F. Austin State University
Panelists: Dana Coester, West Virginia University
Alexandra M. Vilela, James Madison University School of Media Arts & Design
Kasi Dickerson, Stephen F. Austin State University
Joey Stepniewski, Stephen F. Austin State University
Toure McCoy, Stephen F. Austin University

 


Tuesday April 14, 2015 3:30pm - 4:45pm PDT
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5:00pm PDT

What We Wish New Hires Knew...
What do hiring managers want broadcast journalists to already know when they walk in the door? This panel brings in the experts to answer your questions and includes the latest research on journalism job skills required by the industry.
Moderator: Debora Wenger, University of Mississippi
Panelists: Adam Bradshaw, News Director, KVUU-TV
Barbara Maushard, Vice President, News, at Hearst Television, Inc. 
 

Tuesday April 14, 2015 5:00pm - 6:15pm PDT
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Wednesday, April 15
 

10:30am PDT

Perspectives on Student Media Advising
The panelists share insights and observations on the experience and impact of student media on the education, careers and lives of students involved in student media operations. With almost 100 years of collective experience in student media advising and significant involvement in BEA leadership, these panelists bring a much needed perspective to the impact and importance of Student Media in both the academic curriculum and the lives of media students.
Moderator: W. Dale Hoskins, Northern Arizona University
Panelists: Norm Medoff, Northern Arizona University; BEA President, 1998-99 & Author of "Electronic Media: Then, Now, and Later", 2011
Sam Sauls, Susquehanna University; BEA President, 2011-12 & BEA Convention Program Chair, 2005
W. Dale Hoskins, Northern Arizona University; BEA Student Media Advisors Division Chair, 2004-06
Respondent: Chad J. Roberts, Central Michigan University; BEA Student Media Advisors Division Chair, 2014-Present

Wednesday April 15, 2015 10:30am - 11:45am PDT
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12:00pm PDT

Digital Compositing Workshop

Mark Coné completed his BFA and MFA degrees at Florida Atlantic University with a major in Computer Art and Animation. He has 10 years teaching experience at the university level. He currently is an Assistant professor at Lynn University teaching in the multimedia design program. Previously, he was employed at American Intercontinental university teaching courses in game design and Florida Atlantic University teaching courses in digital compositing, 3d modeling, and animation.

 

This is a projection mapping and compositing workshop. Projection mapping, or video mapping is a technique that consists of projecting imagery onto buildings, structures, and other 3d surfaces. Compositing is the manipulation and combination of at least two source images. Projection mapping uses combined source images such as drawings, video, and rendered animation and projects them into real 3d space. This technique can be used in various media displays in advertising, film/theater, or other visual presentations. Speaker will provide a simple work flow to implement projection mapping using a laptop and a projector. This work flow will cover the preparation, setup, masking, animation, and the final projection outputted to be mapped in real space. The software tools used are Photoshop, After Effects, Modul8, and Madmapper.


Wednesday April 15, 2015 12:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
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