BEA Announces the 2010 New Faculty Research Grant Recipient
Serena Carpenter, Arizona State University
Serena Carpenter joined the Arizona State University faculty in 2007 specializing in newer media and media sociology after finishing her Ph.D. degree at Michigan State University. Carpenter is interested in understanding influences on news content. Her dissertation research was one of the first of a series of quantitative studies on online citizen journalism. She has produced eleven journal publications, two book chapters, 17 conference presentations. Her research has been published in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Mass Communication and Society, Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, and Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media.
Carpenter teaches courses in the areas of online and broadcast journalism. She regularly reach out to journalistic, academic, and other professional communities. In an attempt to bridge the gap between professionals and academics, she started a blog called “Online Journalism” (http://serenacarpenter.com/). In this blog, she shares teaching materials and deciphers research published in journals for a wider audience.
Carpenter has also taught courses at Michigan State University and Bloomsburg University. Her professional background includes working as a television reporter and in radio advertising sales. Carpenter has produced an award-winning documentary on rural issues.
Carpenter is an active member of the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, International Communication Association, Broadcast Education Association and National Communication Association.
BEA’s New Faculty Research Grant (NFRG) seeks to promote scholarship through achievement by untenured broadcast and electronic media faculty. A cash grant of $2,000 for research projects will be awarded to Serena Carpenter at BEA’s annual convention in Las Vegas, April 15-17. This year’s grant was matched by a fund created in the memory of Hal Niven, former BEA Executive Director.
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. Over time it is hoped that the scope of funded research will encompass technology, law and policy, audience studies, international and foreign systems, production and a variety of other media areas.
