Pop-Up: A Back-To-School Assessment Tune Up
Jump into a new year of assessing your program’s student success! We’ll highlight a few areas to start thinking about now so you’re ready later, including a quick review of direct and indirect measures and deeper dives on internships and portfolio reviews. Join us for a friendly and helpful time talking assessment. Come with questions!
Angela Criscoe Georgia College & State University and CAA Vice Chair
Student Networking Nights - Navigating Your Senior Year
Our first event this fall will be for students, and will provide valuable insight on navigating your senior year in anticipation of your future career planning and prep. Learn More…
BEA2026 Submission Site is Open
BEA’s annual convention traditionally produces over 250 sessions on media pedagogy, collaborative networking events, hands-on technology workshops, research and creative scholarship. Co-located with NAB Show, where the broadcast, media and entertainment industry converged to experience innovation in action and harness the power of possibility.
BEA2026 Research Symposium: Communicating in an AI Driven World: The Impact of AI on Creators and Consumers of News and Entertainment
Artificial intelligence is changing the way the world interacts with machines and people, as well as how media organizations operate. As society grapples with the use of AI, those in the field of mass communication must consider the how the opportunities AI offers come with ethical ramifications. Professional organizations (RTDNA, PRSA, AAF, NAB) have adopted professional codes and guidelines for using AI in industry.
The 2026 BEA Research Symposium will examine AI research in mass communication. As AI is implemented, it is important to remember the human connection those working in the media industry bring to communicating information. Media professionals transmit information that is influenced by their broader understanding, shared background, and empathy. How can the media industry ethically adopt a technology that is disrupting how people seek, consume, and produce information?
The symposium welcomes qualitative and quantitative research from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives across social sciences. Click here for more information.
JOBEM Announces Two Special Issues
The Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media invites cutting-edge submissions for two groundbreaking special issues addressing critical intersections of artificial intelligence and electronic media. Submissions are due in late fall/winter 2025.
– Trust in Generative AI: Foundations, Drivers, and Implications
– AI, Misinformation, and the Future of Algorithmic Fact-Checking