(AAPNW-KY) – University of Kentucky’s School of Journalism and Telecommunications Professor Thomas R. Lindlof has been given the 2011 Distinguished Scholar Award by the Broadcast Education Association (BEA). He will be officially recognized at the BEA Convention April 9-13 in Las Vegas.
“Receiving the award means a lot because it is an award given to me by my peers in the telecommunications field,” Lindlof said.
The award recognizes significant contributions to research and scholarship involving broadcast and electronic media, specifically to those who have been recorded in books and leading journals for the last 20 years. Lindlof is most noted for his work in helping to introduce ideas and methods of interpretive social science to media studies and his development of the theory of interpretive communities and its application to the study of media audiences.
Lindlof began his career at Pennsylvania State University and has been a faculty member at UK for the last 26 years. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from the University of Florida and from the University of Texas at Austin, he was achieved master’s and doctorate degrees in radio, television and film.