Benson P. Fraser is the Westminster Canterbury Fellow of Religious Studies and Lifelong Learning at Virginia Wesleyan University in Virginia Beach, Virginia. His academic and research interests are in the area of media effects, celebrity influence, indirect communication, and entertainment-education. Dr. Fraser is also a partner and consultant in Brown, Fraser & Associates, a communication research firm in Chesapeake, Virginia. He has conducted over one hundred national media studies in more than forty countries.