The 2008 MEA Awards

The Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology

Richard Barbrook for Imaginary Futures: From Thinking Machines to the Global Village

The Walter Benjamin Award for Outstanding Article in the Field of Media Ecology

Robert MacDougall for “Identity, Electronic Ethos, and Blogs: A Technologic Analysis of Symbolic Exchange on the New News Medium”

The Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction

Paul Mason Fotsch for Watching the Traffic Go By: Transportation and Isolation in Urban America 

The Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form

Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites for No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy

The Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture

Paul Rutherford for A World Made Sexy: Freud to Madonna

The Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics

Steve Dixon for Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation

The Harold A. Innis Award for Outstanding Thesis or Dissertation in the Field of Media Ecology

Stephanie Bennett for The Disappearance of Silence: A Dialectical Exploration of the Interpersonal Implications of Personal Mobile Media as Viewed through the Lens of Jacques Ellul's La Technique

The Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work

Jean-Claude Carrière for Please, Mr. Einstein

The John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in the Field of Media Ecology

Eric Goodman for Thus Spoke the Spectacle (videos and website)

The Louis Forsdale Award for Outstanding Educator in the Field of Media Ecology

Lee Thayer

The Jacques Ellul Award for Outstanding Media Ecology Activism

Margot Hardenbergh

The James W. Carey Award for Outstanding Media Ecology Journalism

Marvin Kitman

The Walter J. Ong Award for Career Achievement in Scholarship

Joshua Meyrowitz

The Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity

Frijof Capra

The MEA Convention Top Paper Award

 

The Linda Elson Scholar Award for the Top Student Paper

 

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