2018 Awards
The MEA Convention Top Paper Award
Barry Liss for “Hot Media, Technological Transformation and the Plague of Dark Emotions: Viktor Frankl and the Recovery of Meaning”
The Linda Elson Scholar Award for Top Student Paper
Matt Lindia for “Colon. Hyphen. Closed Parenthesis. Formal Causes of Figure and Ground in Punctuation”
The Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology
Lance Strate for Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition
The Walter Benjamin Award for Outstanding Article in the Field of Media Ecology
Ellen Rose for “A Genealogy of Computer-Generated Narrative”
The Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction
Jessica Fishman for Death Makes the News: How the Media Censor and Display the Dead
The Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form
Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites The Public Image: Photography and Civic Spectatorship
The Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture
Tom Mole for What the Victorians Made of Romanticism: Material Artifacts, Cultural Practices and Reception History
The Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics
Thomas S. Mullaney for The Chinese Typewriter: A History
The Harold A. Innis Award for Outstanding Thesis or Dissertation in the Field of Media Ecology
Julie A. Cramer Hunsberger for “Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Marshall McLuhan and Communication Ethics: The Taming of Americanitis”
The Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work
No award given this year
The John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in the Field of Media Ecology
Ergin Safak Dikman for New Media Ecology: An Interactive Timeline for Mapping the Communication Environment
The Louis Forsdale Award for Outstanding Educator in the Field of Media Ecology
The Jacques Ellul Award for Outstanding Media Ecology Activism
Pope Francis
The James W. Carey Award for Outstanding Media Ecology Journalism
The Christine L. Nystrom Award for Career Achievement in Service to the Field of Media Ecology
The Edmund S. Carpenter Award for Career Achievement in Editing in the Field of Media Ecology
The Walter J. Ong Award for Career Achievement in Scholarship
The Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity
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