Electronic Media Research Series
About the Book Series
In 2008, the Broadcast Education Association initiated a new program promotion original research. The result was the creation of the BEA Research Symposium and publications. The purpose of the BEA Symposium is as a catalyst for future research. It honors leading scholars of the discipline and features their work along with new and upcoming scholarship. The Electronic Media Research Series was established in 2010. Along with the BEA Research Symposium Series, this series provides keystone research texts for those researching with the discipline. It will bring the reader up to-date relative to the topics and it reflect the current work within the field as well as providing a comprehensive bibliography and index, facilitating further research.
US Media and Diversity: Representation, Dissemination, and Effects
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By Travis L. Dixon, Dana Mastro
December 25, 2025
This volume fully illuminates the role of diversity in media representation, dissemination, and effects across various platforms, including social media. Against a backdrop of shifting demographics and increasing diversity, the book highlights the implications for media consumption patterns and ...
Mis/Disinformation and Democratic Society
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By Melissa Zimdars
June 15, 2025
Drawing on a variety of perspectives and methodologies, this collection explores the intricate relationship between mis- and disinformation and the functioning of democratic society. This book seeks to show how mis- and disinformation is destabilizing our collective confidence in institutions ...
Media and Crisis Communication
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By W. Timothy Coombs
December 27, 2024
This volume centers on the relationship between media and crisis communication, the need to address which has only been heightened by the recent experience of COVID-19 and the needs for public health crisis communication. With multiple voices and multiple fields engaging simultaneously with crisis ...
Political Communication, Culture, and Society
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By Patricia Moy, Rico Neumann
December 18, 2024
As an installment of Routledge’s Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Electronic Media Research Series, Political Communication, Culture, and Society focuses on the expansive concept of political communication and illuminates the processes, contents, and effects related to myriad forms and ...
Triaging the Streaming Wars
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By Robert Alan Brookey, Jason Phillips, Tim Pollard
December 18, 2024
This volume considers the different implications of the rise of streaming services and their particular acceleration during the COVID-19 pandemic. Exploring the significant disruption caused to the entertainment industries by the rise of these streaming services, a team of international scholars ...
Media Literacy in a Disruptive Media Environment
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By William G. Christ, Belinha S. De Abreu
August 29, 2022
This book, part of the BEA Electronic Media Research Series, brings together top scholars researching media literacy and lays out the current state of the field in areas such as propaganda, news, participatory culture, representation, education, social/environmental justice, and civic engagement. ...
Risk and Health Communication in an Evolving Media Environment
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By H. Dan O'Hair
September 30, 2021
Broadcast media has a particular fascination with stories that involve risk and health crisis events—disease outbreaks, terrorist acts, and natural disasters—contexts where risk and health communication play a critical role. An evolving media landscape introduces both challenges and opportunities ...
The Golden Age of Data: Media Analytics in Study & Practice
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By Don Grady
September 30, 2021
Audience and media analytics is more important now than ever, and this latest volume in the cutting-edge BEA Electronic Media Research Series collects some of the top scholars working with big data and analytics today. These chapters describe the development and help define media analytics as an ...
Video Games: A Medium That Demands Our Attention
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By Nicholas David Bowman
December 18, 2020
This entry in the BEA Electronic Media Research Series, born out of the April 2017 BEA Research Symposium, takes a look at video games, outlining the characteristics of them as cognitive, emotional, physical, and social demanding technologies, and introduces readers to current research on video ...
Digital Technology and the Future of Broadcasting: Global Perspectives
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By John V. Pavlik
December 10, 2019
This volume presents timely discussions on how digital technology is reshaping broadcasting and the media in the United States and around the world. It features contributions from distinguished scholars and young researchers, representing work that spans domestic and international issues of ...
Race and Gender in Electronic Media: Content, Context, Culture
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By Rebecca Ann Lind
August 31, 2017
This volume will feature research examining the consequences, implications, and opportunities associated with issues of diversity in the electronic media. The topics of gender and race in electronic media have been hot topics of study and remain so today. The book will consider race and gender ...
Media and Social Life
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By Mary Beth Oliver, Arthur A. Raney
May 06, 2016
Our use of media touches on almost all aspects of our social lives, be they friendships, parent-child relationships, emotional lives, or social stereotypes. How we understand ourselves and others is now largely dependent on how we perceive ourselves and others in media, how we interact with one ...