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The Nineteenth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association

Senses of Time, Space and Place
June 21-24, 2018
The University of Maine
Orono, Maine

University of Maine

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Renee Hobbs and Susan J. Drucker

MEA convention registration is open!

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| Official Program | Campus Map | MEA Parking Pass | Housing & Dining | Hotels, Restaurants, Visitors Information |

Since 1950, when Canadian economic historian Harold Innis grounded his communication history theory in the ebb and flow of time-biased and space-biased media from ancient to modern civilizations, time and space have been a key concept in what later became media ecology in the 1970s. Marshall McLuhan applied the time/space concept to perception to understand the temporal characteristics of oral culture; the spatial nature of visual scribal and typographic culture, and the elimination of time and space in electronic media culture. Walter Ong featured time and space as central to the modes of consciousness in orality and literacy. Neil Postman attributed the decline in rational print culture discourse to the shortening attention span of television culture. For James Carey, too, time and space were critical elements of the equation of communication and culture. Joshua Meyrowitz explored the shifting sense of place in media cultures. And theorists from Jean Baudrillard to Paul Virilio contemplated postmodern and posthuman senses of time, space and place.

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Official Program

MEA Official Program

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Campus Map

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MEA Parking Pass

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Campus Housing and Dining

Campus Residence Suites: (Wednesday through Sunday nights) $81/night for single bedroom with twin bed and linens in four-bedroom suite with shared living room, bath and kitchen space.

Campus Dining (breakfast, lunch on own Thursday through Sunday):

Food cart in convention atrium at DPC Hilltop Dining near Residence Halls Bear’s Den in Memorial Union near convention at DPC Reception Thursday night with cash bar Banquet Friday night with lobster, seafood, chicken, vegetarian options to select at University of Maine website

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Parking permits free. Will be e-mailed to attendees two weeks before convention

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