The Broadcast Education Association (BEA) is pleased to announce that Dr. Miao Guo, Ball State University, is the recipient of BEA’s 2016 New Faculty Research Grant.
Dr. Miao Guo is an Assistant Professor of Telecommunications at Ball State University. She teaches courses in media research, programs and audiences, and digital media marketing and promotion at both graduate and undergraduate level. Her research interests include digital technologies and audience behavior, with specialization in the usage and impacts of second-screen mobile devices, apps, and social media in a cross-media, multitasking consumption environment. Her current studies are focused on television viewers’ binge-watching behavior, and double-viewing patterns between live broadcasting and Twitter activities.
Dr. Guo has published her work in such journals as Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Journal of Media Business, and others. Dr. Guo has been awarded grants by the Time Warner Global Group and she is the recipient of the 2013 AEJMC Emerging Scholar. Dr. Miao Guo joined the Ball State faculty in 2012. She received her Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of Florida, a master’s degree in radio, television, and film from the University of North Texas, as well as a communication master’s degree from Tsinghua University in China. She currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Management, Marketing and Programming division of BEA.
BEA’s New Faculty Research Grant (NFRG) seeks to promote scholarship through achievement by untenured broadcast and electronic media faculty. A cash grant of $1,000 will be awarded to Dr. Miao Guo at BEA’s annual convention in Las Vegas, April 17-20. Initial funding for this grant was provided by Rebecca Hayden, winner of BEA’s Distinguished Education Service Award in 1993, and long-time editor/publisher of broadcast and media books at Wadsworth Publishing Co. The grant honors the memory of Sydney W. Head (1913-1991) and Harrison B. Summers (1894-1980), two key pioneers in broadcast education.
