Donald R. Browne (Communication Studies, U of Minnesota) has received the Broadcast Education Association Distinguished Scholar Award for his scholarship in the comparative study of electronic media systems around the world, and particularly on their usage by ethnic/indigenous/linguistic minorities.
Richard Butsch (Rider U) is the editor of a newly published book, Media and Public Spheres (Palgrave-Macmillan). Media and Public Spheres presents empirical studies of print, recorded music, movies, radio, television and the Internet that reveal how media structure the public sphere as well as how people use media to participate in the public sphere. They explore the nature of public spheres, how they are deliberative, egalitarian, exclusive or alternative, and the dilemmas that each of these present. The studies include cases of media, present and past, in North America, Europe and Asia
