CINE: 2009 Educational Advisory Board

Steve Anderson

Steve Anderson is the Director of the School of Media Arts & Design (SMAD) at James Madison University. He is responsible for overseeing the program's concentrations in Digital Video & Cinema, Converged Media, Corporate Communication and Journalism. He has received numerous awards for his multimedia and video work and is an author of a textbook entitled "Exploring Electronic Media: Chronicles & Challenges" from Blackwell Publishing in which he chronicles the historical development of electronic media technology and examines the current state of both traditional (radio, television, cable) and new media technologies & applications. He is interested in communication technology and the development of content for a variety of platforms, delivery methods and devices.

Anderson was the 2004-2005 President of the Broadcast Education Association (BEA), the association for electronic media professors and industry professionals based in Washington, D.C. He served as the convention program chair for BEA2000, the international conference of the association held in Las Vegas in April of 2000. He has also chaired the Production Aesthetics & Criticism Division, co-chaired the BEA Creative Activities Task Force and served on the BEA Multimedia Task Force. The Creative Activities Task Force led to the development of the BEA Festival of Media Arts, an event that he produced for the first three years of its history.

Before arriving at JMU, Anderson was on the faculty at the University of Oklahoma, where he served as the Sequence Coordinator for the Broadcasting & Electronic Media Sequence.

Prior to entering academe, Anderson was the environmental reporter and weekend weathercaster for KCNC television, a network O&O station in Denver, Colorado where he worked between 1982 and 1989. He also worked as a news photographer, weathercaster and news reporter at stations in Fresno, California and Fargo, North Dakota. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Denver.

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