The Media Ecology Association (MEA) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting the study, research, criticism, and application of media ecology in educational, industry, political, civic, social, cultural, and artistic contexts, and the open exchange of ideas, information, and research among the Association’s members and the larger community.
Charting a Course: Meeting New Horizons Hyatt Regency
Baltimore, Maryland April 22–25, 2010
Call for Papers In order to receive full consideration, Media Ecology Interest Group completed papers and program/panel
proposals must be received by October 15, 2009.
Submissions must be sent via e-mail, with an attachment in MS Word format, to the 2010
Program Planner:
The Media Ecology Introductory Reading List is a guide to basic readings in this field. The list is integrated by 33 books that are more or less fully in the tradition of media ecology.
For those already familiar with some of the scholars who share the media ecology perspective, this list may provide suggestions for further reading, as well as conveying a sense of the breadth of the field.
The list includes the following authors: Marshall McLuhan, Harold Innis, Walter Ong, Neil Postman, Lewis Mumford, Jacques Ellul, Elizabeth Eisenstein, Erick Havelock, Edmund Carpenter, Jack Goody, Denise Schmandt-Besserat, Robert K. Logan, Joshua Meyrowitz, James W. Carey, Walter Benjamin, Daniel J. Boorstin, Susan Sontag, Gary Gumpert, Camille Paglia, Tony Schwartz, Regis Debray, David L. Altheide, Jay David Bolter, Paul Levinson, Christine Nystrom.
About this video: Dr. Neil Postman is talking about Media Ecology in the 5th Anniversary of the Media Ecology Association. This event was held on September 4, 2003 at Fordham University.
New York Times - Sep 13, 2009 ... if you see what I mean. Mark Crispin Miller, professor of media ecology at New York University and director of the Project on Media Ownership.
Salon - Sep 4, 2009
I was there to study the media, and he was at that time a professor of media ecology (a name for his anti-discipline). As he explained to me: "We're just ...
... because they could reflect an overall shift in the ad market to new media, where newspapers face mounting competition and enjoy less profitability. ...
The government is looking at how schools can improve their teaching of "media literacy" and proposes to create voluntary rules on how food and drink ...
Membership in the Media Ecology Association is open to anyone— faculty, students, business people, professionals—interested in exploring the interactions between media, communications, and culture.
MEA members receive In Medias Res, our newsletter, twice a year. Keep up with the latest MEA activities and keep us up-to-date about you. Send personal news, information of interest to media ecologists, ideas for short articles, and especially ideas for book reviews, to the newsletter editor:
Stephanie Bennett
Phone: (561) 803-2617
E-mail: stephanie_bennett@pba.edu
Office: Gregory Hall 457
School: Communication and Media
Campus: West Palm Beach, Palm Beach Atlantic University.
MEA Mailing List
Serving as one of the MEA’s main channels of communication, our electronic mailing list provides a space for reasoned, informed, and civil discussion about communication, media, and culture among persons interested in themes and subjects relevant to the field of media ecology. Subscribers use this list to share views, exchange information, and learn about events, activities, and news related to media ecology.
Now hosted at ibiblio.org, the MEA list uses state-of-the-art software to eliminate spam and viruses, offering subscribers a convenient Web-based interface for access to archives of past messages as well as for managing individual subscription settings, such as the option of temporarily suspending message delivery or receiving messages batched in daily digests.
