Joining the Media Ecology Association
If you are interested in: the nature, history, and impact of technology, media, and symbol systems; the study of communication, consciousness, and culture; technological determinism, media evolution, information, and cybernetics; the study of media codes, media literacy, and media education; orality, literacy, secondary orality, and postliteracy; oral, scribal, typographic, and electronic cultures; the graphic revolution and image culture; scholars such as Marshall McLuhan, Harold Innis, Walter Ong, Neil Postman, Lewis Mumford, and Jacques Ellul; then you should be a member of the Media Ecology Association.
How to Join
Annual dues for 2019 are as follows:
Student* US$50
Regular US$100
Sustaining Membership** US$200
Institutional US$250
* Full-time students only; please include a copy or scan of your full-time student ID card
** Regular Membership + Early Convention Registration Rate
Membership extends from January 1 through December 31 annually.
If you wish to submit your membership via check and postal mail, you may download a PDF version of the membership form.
Membership Benefits
- Subscription to our monthly newsletter In Medias Res.
- Forums for professional exchange among members — including our active electronic discussion list, where you can converse with leading media ecologists from around the world.
- Venues for showcasing your scholarly work, including our own annual convention, as well as featured panels at the conventions of the National Communication Association, Eastern Communication Association, New York State Communication Association, and International Communication Association (at the reduced ICA-member registration rate).
- Opportunities to contribute professional service and help to shape the direction this new field of media ecology.
- Participation in MEA elections and governance.
- Annual subscription to our print journal, Explorations in Media Ecology {EME}, published quarterly.
- Discounts on selected books and publications.
- Access to a special Membership Area where you will find back issues of our journal Explorations in Media Ecology {EME}.
You don’t have to be an academic to join. Although many of our members are researchers and scholars, our membership includes nonacademics, teachers, doctors, lawyers, religious leaders, media professionals, and people working in tech.
Convention Fees
- Regular Member Early Registration: $100
- Regular Member Registration: $125
- Student Member Early Registration: $40
- Student Member Registration: $50
- Student Nonmember Registration: $60
- Nonmember Registration: $250
Membership Status
To check your status go to the Members page.
You will need a generic password, if you don’t have it yet please email to the Executive Secretary at secretary@media-ecology.org.