Past Awards

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

2023 - Laura Trujillo Liñan for Formal Cause in Marshall McLuhan’s Thinking: An Aristotelian Perspective
2022 - Craig Robertson for The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information
2021 - B.W. Powe and Marshall Soules for The Charge in the Global Membrane
2020 - Tiffany Shlain for 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week
2019 - Mark A. McCutcheon for The Medium is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology
2018 - Lance Strate for Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition
2017 - Tim Wu for The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
2016 - Elena Lamberti for McLuhan’s Mosaic: Probing the Literary Origins of Media Studies
2015 - Fred Turner for The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties
2014 - John Miles Foley for Oral Tradition and the Internet: Pathways of the Mind
2013 - Ellen Rose for On Reflection: An Essay on Technology, Education, and the Status of Thought in the Twenty-First Century
2012 - Barbie Zelizer for About to Die: How News Images Move the Public
2011 - Sheila Nayar for Cinematically Speaking: The Orality-Literacy Paradigm for Visual Narrative
2010 - Viktor Mayer-Schönberger for Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
2009 - Rick Williams and Julianne Newton for Visual Communication: Integrating Media, Art, and Science
2008 - Richard Barbrook for Imaginary Futures: From Thinking Machines to the Global Village
2007 - Peter K. Fallon for Printing, Literacy, and Education in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Why the Irish Speak English
2006 - Thomas de Zengotita for Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It
2005 - Donald N. Wood for The Unraveling of the West: The Rise of Postmodernism and the Decline of Democracy
2004 - Francis Fukuyama for Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
2003 - Frederick Wasser for Veni, Vidi, Video: The Hollywood Empire and the VCR
2002 - Douglas Rushkoff for Coercion: Why We Listen to What “They” Say
2001 - Thomas J. Farrell for Walter Ong’s Contributions to Cultural Studies: The Phenomenology of the Word and I-Thou Communication
2000 - Neil Postman for Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future

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

2023 - Austin Hestdalen for “The Kind of Problem a Smart City Is”
2022 - Jaqueline McLeod Rogers for “Susanne Langer, Marshall McLuhan and Media Ecology: Feminist Principles in Humanist Projects”
2021 - Justin C. Tackett for “‘I heard his silver Call’: Emily Dickinson and the Poetry of Telegraphic Acoustics”
2020 - Laureano Ralón for “From Global Village to Global Theater: The Late McLuhan as a Philosopher of Difference, Sense, and Multiplicities”
2019 - Nicholas Grodsky, Julia Hildebrand, and Ernest Hakanen for “Screens as Human and Non-Human Artefacts: Expanding the McLuhans’ Tetrad”
2018 - Ellen Rose for “A Genealogy of Computer-Generated Narrative”
2017 - Brett Lunceford for “Chained to the Dialer, or Frederick Taylor Reaches out and Touches Someone”
2016 - Casey Lum for “Media Ecology: Contexts, Concepts and Currents”
2015 - David Trippet for “Facing Digital Realities: Where Media Do Not Mix”
2014 - Brett Lunceford for “Posthuman Visions: Creating the Technologized Body”
2013 - Mara Mills for “Hearing Aids and the History of Electronics Miniaturization”
2012 - James C. Morrison for “Acoustic, Visual, and Aural Space: The Quest for Virtual Reality in Musical Reproduction”
2011 - Keith N. Hampton for “Internet Use and the Concentration of Disadvantage: Glocalization and the Urban Underclass”
2010 - Brenton J. Malin for “Mediating Emotion: Technology, Social Science, and Emotion in the Payne Fund Motion-Picture Studies”
2009 - Thomas J. Bruneau for “Time, Change, and Sociocultural Communication: A Chronemic Perspective”
2008 - Robert MacDougall for “Identity, Electronic Ethos, and Blogs: A Technologic Analysis of Symbolic Exchange on the New News Medium”
2007 - Corey Anton for “Playing with Bateson: Denotation, Logical Types, and Analog and Digital Communication”
2006 - Edward Wachtel for “Did Picasso and Da Vinci, Newton and Einstein, The Bushman and the Englishman See the Same Thing When They Faced the East at Dawn? Or, Some Lessons I Learned From Marshall McLuhan About Perception, Time, Space, and the Order of the World”
2005 - Sheila J. Nayar for “Invisible Representation: The Oral Contours of a National Popular Cinema”
2004 - Susan B. Barnes for “The Development of Graphical User Interfaces and Their Influence on the Future of Human-Computer Interaction”
2003 - Alan Randolph Kluver for “The Logic of New Media in International Affairs”
2002 - Erik P. Bucy and Kimberly S. Gregson for “Media Participation: A Legitimizing Mechanism of Mass Democracy”
2001 - Pablo J. Boczkowski for “Mutual Shaping of Users and Technologies in a National Virtual Community”
2000 - Walter J. Ong, S.J. for “Digitization Ancient and Modern: Beginnings of Writing and Today’s Computers”

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

2023 - Stephanie Bennett for Silence, Civility, and Sanity: Hope for Humanity in a Digital Age and Eva Berger for Context Blindness: Digital Technology and the Next Stage of Human Evolution
2022 - Kate Eichhorn for The End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media
2021 - Larry Busbea for The Responsive Environment: Design, Aesthetics, and the Human in the 1970s; and Deborah Eicher-Catt for Recovering the Voice in Our Techno-Social World
2020 - Mark Kingwell for Wish I Were Here: Boredom and the Interface
2019 - Laura Tropp for Grandparents in a Digital Age: The Third Act
2018 - Jessica Fishman for Death Makes the News: How the Media Censor and Display the Dead
2017 - Gary T. Marx for Windows Into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology
2016 - David J. Alworth for Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form
2015 - danah boyd for It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
2014 - Susan Barnes for Social Networks: From Text to Video
2013 - Valerie V. Peterson for Sex, Ethics and Communication: A Humanist Approach to Conversations on Intimacy
2012 - Corey Anton for Sources of Significance: Worldly Rejuvenation and Neo-Stoic Heroism
2011 - Richard S. Hallam for Virtual Selves, Real Persons: A Dialogue Across Disciplines
2010 - Kenneth J. Gergen for Relational Being: Beyond Self and Community
2009 - Rich Ling for New Tech, New Times: How Mobile Communication is Reshaping Social Cohesion
2008 - Paul Mason Fotsch for Watching the Traffic Go By: Transportation and Isolation in Urban America
2007 - Richard A. Lanham for The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information
2006 - David Berreby for Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind
2005 - Aaron Ben Ze’ev for Love Online: Emotions on the Internet
2004 - Corey Anton for Selfhood and Authenticity

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

2023 - Adeena Karasick for Massaging the Medium: Seven Pechakuchas
2022 - Corey Anton for How Non-Being Haunts Being: On Possibilities, Morality, and Death Acceptance
2021 - Robert Albrecht and Carmine Tabone for The Arts and Play as Educational Media in the Digital Age
2020 - Yoni Van Den Eede for The Beauty of Detours: A Batesonian Philosophy of Technology
2019 - Eviatar Zerubavel for Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable
2018 - Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites for The Public Image: Photography and Civic Spectatorship
2017 - Katherine Biers for Virtual Modernism: Writing and Technology in the Progressive Era
2016 - Jeff Scheible for Digital Shift: The Cultural Logic of Punctuation
2015 - Michael Serazio for Your Ad Here: The Cool Sell of Guerrilla Marketing
2014 - Brian Lennon for In Babel’s Shadow: Multilingual Literatures, Monolingual States
2013 - David Bellos for Is that a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
2012 - Whitney Davis for A General Theory of Visual Culture
2011 - Linda G. Elson for Paradox Lost: A cross-Contextual Definition of Levels of Abstraction
2010 - Michael Wurtz for Enduring Words: Literary Narrative in a Chnaging Media Ecology
2009 - Karin Barber for The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics: Oral and Written Culture in Africa and Beyond
2008 - Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites for No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy
2007 - Martin H. Levinson for Sensible Thinking for Turbulent Times
2006 - Guy Deutscher for The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind’s Greatest Invention
2005 - Heike Wiese for Numbers, Language, and the Human Mind
2004 - Susan Sontag for Regarding the Pain of Others
2003 - N. Katherine Hayles for Writing Machines
2002 - Kevin G. Barnhurst and John Nerone for The Form of News: A History
2001 - Raymond Gozzi, Jr. for The Power of Metaphor in the Age of Electronic Media
2000 - Robert K. Logan for The Sixth Language: Learning a Living in the Internet Age

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

2023 - Andrew Conte for Death of the Daily News: How Citizen Gatekeepers Can Save Local Journalism
2022 - Allissa V. Richardson for Bearing Witness While Black: African-Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism
2021 - Daniel Belgrad for The Culture of Feedback: Ecological Thinking in 70s America
2020 - Maggie Jackson for Distracted: Reclaiming Our Focus in a World of Lost Attention
2019 - Shannon Mattern for Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media
2018 - Tom Mole for What the Victorians Made of Romanticism: Material Artifacts, Cultural Practices and Reception History
2017 - Alex Marland for Brand Command: Canadian Politics and Democracy in the Age of Message Control
2016 - Caroline Levine for Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network
2015 - Dariusz Jemielniak for Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia
2014 - Kate Marshall for Corridor: Media Architectures in American Fiction
2013 - Peter Lunefeld for The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as a Culture Machine
2012 - Sara van den Berg and Thomas M. Walsh for Language, Culture, and Identity: The Legacy of Walter J. Ong
2011 - Lisa Brooks for The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast
2010 - Diego Gambetta for Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
2009 - Tom Boellstorff for Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
2008 - Paul Rutherford for A World Made Sexy: Freud to Madonna
2007 - David MacDougall for The Corporeal Image: Film, Ethnography, and the Senses
2006 - Charlton D. McIlwain for When Death Goes Pop: Death, Media and the Remaking of Community
2005 - Robert Albrecht for Mediating the Muse: A Communications Approach to Music, Media and Cultural Change
2004 - Thomas L. Friedman for Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11
2003 - Nancy A. Walker for Shaping Our Mothers’ World: American Women’s Magazines
2002 - Susan B. Barnes for Online Connections: Internet Interpersonal Relationships and Stuart Biegel for Beyond Our Control? Confronting the Limits of Our Legal System in the Age of Cyberspace

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

2023 - Paul Roquet for The Immersive Enclosure: Virtual Reality in Japan
2022 - Paolo Galluzzi for The Italian Renaissance of Machines
2021 - Jaqueline McLeod Rogers for McLuhan’s Techno-Sensorium City: Coming to Our Senses in a Programmed Environment
2020 - Clifford G. Christians for Media Ethics and Global Justice in the Digital Age
2019 - Antoine Bousquet for The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone
2018 - Thomas S. Mullaney for The Chinese Typewriter: A History
2017 - Wendy Hui Kyong Chun for Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media
2016 - Karen Rader and Victoria Cain for Life on Display: Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century
2015 - Brenton Malin for Feeling Mediated: A History of Media Technology and Emotion in America
2014 - Brett Robinson for Appletopia: Media Technology and the Religious Imagination of Steve Jobs
2013 - Janet Sternberg for Misbehavior in Cyber Places: The Regulation of Online Conduct in Virtual Communities on the Internet
2012 - Braden R. Allenby and Daniel Sarewitz for The Techno-Human Condition
2011 - Marco Adria for Technology and Nationalism
2010 - Peter K. Fallon for The Metaphysics of Media: Towards an End of Postmodern Cynicism and the Construction of a Virtuous Reality
2009 - Yvonne Spielmann for Video: The Reflexive Medium
2008 - Steve Dixon for Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation
2007 - Timothy C. Campbell for Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi & to Fred Turner for From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
2006 - Casey Man Kong Lum for Perspectives on Culture, Technology and Communication: The Media Ecology Tradition
2005 - Margaret Cassidy for Bookends: The Changing Media Environment of American Classrooms
2004 - Scott Eastham for Biotech Time-Bomb: How Genetic Engineering Could Irreversably Change Our World
2003 - Emily Thompson for The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933
2002 - Jack Lule for Daily News, Eternal Stories: The Mythological Role of Journalism
2001 - Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin for Remediation: Understanding New Media
2000 - Paul Levinson for Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium

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

2023 - Graeme Flett for Media Ecology, Congregational Life, and Christian Identity
2022 - Andrew Jon Longcore for Camping Out in the Uncanny Valley: Symbolic Inversion in Animated Sitcoms
2021 - Richard S. Lewis for Relating Through Our Selves: Situating Media Literacy with Intersubjective Mediation
2020 - Julia M. Hildebrand for Consumer Drones as Mobile Media: A Technographic Study of Seeing, Moving, and Being (with) Drones
2019 - Melinda L. Farrington for The Role for Rhetoric: Ong’s Ramus Research as a Hermeneutic Opening for Mediated Communication
2018 - Julie A. Cramer Hunsberger for Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Marshall McLuhan and Communication Ethics: The Taming of Americanitis
2017 - David Benjamin Landes for The Attention Situation: A Rhetorical Theory of Attention for Mediated Communication
2016 - David James Paterno for Technology Translated: The Communicational Facilitation of Medium
2015 - No Award This Year
2014 - Helio César Hintze for Espetáculos e Invisibilidades do Discurso Legitimador do Turismo [Spectacles and Invisibilities of Legitimizing Discourse of Tourism]
2013 - Yoni Van Den Eede for Amor Technologiae: Marshall McLuhan as a Philosopher of Technology: Steps Toward a Philosophy of Human-Media Relationships
2012 - Macello Santos de Medeiros for O Lugar Na Comunicação: Um Estudo Sobre a Comunicação Locativa em Zonas Bluetooth
2011 - Joseph A. Kim for Marshall McLuhan’s Theological Anthropology
2010 - Mogens Olesen for Survival of the Mediated: Speech, The Printing Press, and the Internet as Selection Mechanisms in Cultural Evolution
2009 - Catherine Alison Adams for PowerPoint and the Pedagogy of Digital Media Technology
2008 - 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
2007 - Adriana Braga for Feminilidade Mediada por Computador: Interação Social no Circuito-Blogue [Computer-Mediated Femininity: Social Interaction on the Blog Circuit]
2006 - Susan Jacobson for Scrapbook of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: Hypertext and the Representation of History
2005 - Mary Ann Allison for Gecyberschaft: A Theoretical Model for the Analysis of Emerging Electronic Communities
2004 - Brian Cogan for Wired Worlds: An Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of the Personal Computer and the Internet
2003 - Keith Hampton for Living the Wired Life in the Wired Suburb: Netville, Glocalization and Civil Society
2002 - Janet Sternberg for Misbehavior in Cyber Places: The Regulation of Online Conduct in Virtual Communities on the Internet
2001 - Lori Ramos for Self-Initiated Writing Practices and Conceptions of Writing Among Young Urban Adolescents
2000 - Donna Flayhan for Marxism, Medium Theory, and American Cultural Studies: The Question of Determination

The Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work

2023 - Paul Levinson for “It’s Real Life” (short story and radio play)
2022 - William Jefferson (author) and Sue Zizza (director) for Presence: The Play (audio adaptation)
2021 - Ted Chiang for Exhalation
2020 - Bill Bly for We Descend, Volume Two, New Selected Writings from Archives Pertaining to Egderus Scriptuor
2019 - Malka Older for Infomocracy
2018 - No Award This Year
2017 - Natasha Stagg for Surveys: A Novel
2016 - Ernest Cline for Ready Player One
2015 - David Eggers for The Circle
2014 - No Award This Year
2013 - Robin Sloan for Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
2012 - Shumeet Baluja for The Silicon Jungle & Robert K. Blechman for Executive Severance
2011 - Chuck Wachtel for 3/03
2010 - Steve Tomasula for TOC: A New Media Novel
2009 - Geraldine Brooks for People of the Book
2008 - Jean-Claude Carrière for Please, Mr. Einstein
2007 - Janna Levin for A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
2006 - Rick Moody for The Diviners
2005 - John G. McDaid for “Keyboard Practice, Consisting of an Aria with Diverse Variations for the Harpsichord with Two Manuals”
2004 - William Gibson for Pattern Recognition
2003 - Paul Levinson for The Consciousness Plague

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

2023 - Jenna Ng and Oliver Tomkins for The New Virtuality: A Creative Website on Disappearing Media Boundaries (online multimedia work)
2022 - David Sington (Director) for The First Alphabet: How Writing Changed the World (video documentary)
2021 - John McDaid for Trails of Mars (audio recording)
2020 - Thom Gencarelli for Mistral (audio recording featuring musical composition and performance by bluerace)
2019 - Julia Hildebrand and Barry Vacker, creators/curators, for “Hot and Cool in the Media(s)cene: A McLuhan Style Art and Theory Project”
2018 - Ergin Safak Dikman for New Media Ecology: An Interactive Timeline for Mapping the Communication Environment
2017 - Lawrence Azerrad, Tim Daly and David Pescovitz for Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Edition
2016 - Eugene Marlow for "Zikkaron/Kristallnacht: A Family Story"
2015 - Alex Kuskis
2014 - David Cayley
2013 - Laureano Ralon for the Figure/Ground website
2012 - Robert Albrecht for Song of the Poet (musical composition on CD)
2011 - Nora Bateson for An Ecology of Mind (documentary film)
2010 - Barry Vacker for Space Times Square (video)
2009 - Peter C. Rollins for The Benjamin Lee Whorf Legacy (CD-ROM)
2008 - Eric Goodman for Thus Spoke the Spectacle (videos and website)
2007 - Michael Wesch for The Machine is Us/ing Us (video on YouTube.com)
2006 - Deiren Masterson for McLuhan Way: In Search of Truth (video documentary)
2005 - Toni Urbano and NYU-TV Productions for A Conversation with Neil Postman (video documentary)
2004 - John Bishop and Harald Prins for Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me! (documentary film; DVD distributed by Media Generation)
2003 - Kevin McMahon for McLuhan’s Wake (video documentary produced by Primitive Entertainment and the National Film Board of Canada)
2002 - William Bly and John McDaid for Media Ecology Unplugged (audio music recording, available on CD and as downloadable MP3 files at http://www.infomonger.com/meunplug/.
2001 - Douglas Rushkoff for The Merchants of Cool (television documentary produced for the PBS program Frontline, initially aired February 26, 2001)
2000 - Jerome Agel for The Medium Is the Massage (audio CD and book)

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

2023 - Erik Garrett
2022 - Adriana Braga
2021 - Ellen Rose
2020 - Peter Costello
2019 - Thomas Gencarelli
2018 - Dennis Cali
2017 - Stephanie Gibson
2016 - Valerie V. Peterson
2015 - Fernando Gutierrez
2014 - Casey Lum
2013 - Clifford Christians
2012 - Janet Sternberg
2011 - Alex Kuskis
2010 - Salvatore J. Fallica
2009 - Bruce E. Gronbeck
2008 - Lee Thayer
2007 - Octavio Islas
2006 - Terence P. Moran
2005 - Frank E. X. Dance
2004 - Gary Gumpert
2003 - James W. Carey
2002 - Edmund Carpenter
2001 - Joshua Meyrowitz
2000 - Christine L. Nystrom

The Jacques Ellul Award for Outstanding Media Ecology Activism

2023 - Michelle Shocked
2022 - Roberto Mangabeira Unger
2021 - Joshua Meyrowitz
2020 - Simi Linton
2019 - Andrew McLuhan for The McLuhan Institute
2018 - Pope Francis
2017 - Senator Bernie Sanders
2016 - Rosi Braidotti
2015 - Noam Chomsky
2014 - David Gill
2013 - Aaron Swartz
2012 - Scott Harrison and charity: water
2011 - Lisa Prins
2010 - Eric Goodman and Mike Stevens
2009 - Mark Lipton
2008 - Margot Hardenbergh
2007 - Donna Flayhan
2006 - Andrew Rasiej
2005 - Jerry Brown
2004 - The Reverend Everett C. Parker
2003 - Ronald J. Deibert
2002 - Parry Aftab
2001 - Dennis Gallagher
2000 - Stephanie B. Gibson

The James W. Carey Award for Outstanding Media Ecology Journalism

2023 - Farhad Manjoo
2022 - Patricia Campos Mello
2021 - Kara Swisher
2020 - Ken Auletta
2019 - Mathew Ingram
2018 - Dan Kennedy
2017 - Kevin Kelly
2016 - Luca De Biase
2015 - Thomas Friedman
2014 - Megan Garber of The Atlantic
2013 - David Pogue
2012 - David Carr
2011 - David Hendy
2010 - Eugene Marlow
2009 - Thomas de Zengotita
2008 - Marvin Kitman
2007 - Philip Marchand

The Christine L. Nystrom Award for Career Achievement in Service to the Field of Media Ecology

2023 - Michael Plugh
2022 - Margaret Cassidy
2021 - Stephanie Gibson
2020 - Martin H. Levinson
2019 - Fernando Gutiérrez Cortés
2018 - Sara van den Berg
2017 - Paul Soukup
2016 - Paul Grosswiler
2015 - Janet Sternberg
2014 - James Morrison
2013 - Thomas Gencarelli
2012 - Terence P. Moran
2011 - Robert Barry Francos

The Edmund S. Carpenter Award for Career Achievement in Editing in the Field of Media Ecology

2023 - Carolyn Wiebe and Susan Maushart
2022 - Fernando I. Gutiérrez and Octavio Islas
2021 - Corey Anton
2020 - Judith Yaross Lee
2019 - Phil Rose
2018 - Paul Grosswiler
2017 - Edward Tywoniak
2016 - Carlos Scolari
2015 - Susan Drucker
2014 - Eric McLuhan
2013 - Gary Gumpert
2012 - Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup

The Walter J. Ong Award for Career Achievement in Scholarship

2023 - Michael S. Schudson
2022 - Paul Soukup
2021 - David R. Olson
2020 - Maryanne Wolf
2019 - Werner Kelber
2018 - Susan Drucker
2017 - Paul Heyer
2016 - Luciano Floridi
2015 - Johanna Drucker
2014 - René Girard
2013 - Lance Strate
2012 - Sherry Turkle
2011 - Robert K. Logan
2010 - Don Ihde
2009 - John Miles Foley
2008 - Joshua Meyrowitz
2007 - Jay David Bolter
2006 - Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
2005 - James W. Carey
2004 - Denise Schmandt-Besserat

The Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity

2023 - Richard Sennett
2022 - Tiffany Shlain
2021 - Naomi Klein
2020 - Jay Rosen
2019 - Nora Bateson
2018 - Renee Hobbs
2017 - Scott McCloud
2016 - Bruce Sterling
2015 - Nicholas Carr
2014 - Ronald J. Deibert
2013 - Morris Berman
2012 - Jaron Lanier
2011 - Gary Gumpert
2010 - Mary Catherine Bateson
2009 - Alan Kay
2008 - Fritjof Capra
2007 - Eric McLuhan
2006 - Howard Rheingold
2005 - Paul Levinson
2004 - Douglas Rushkoff

The MEA Convention Top Paper Award

2023 - Mindaugas Briedis (Universidad Panamericana, Ciudad de México México) and Mariano Navarro (Universidad Panamericana, Ciudad de México México) for “Enactive Approach to Social Interactions in Artistic Media Ecologies: D. Rivera’s Case”
2022 - Cosette Castro (Fundação Friedrich Ebert Stiftung/Brasil e Instituto Lula) for “Estudo Comparativo Sobre Inclusão Digital Entre Ativistas Com Vulnerabilidade Social e Lideranças de Movimentos Sociais Organizados no Brasil”
2021 - Fred Cheyunski for “Dealing with Dystopia: Freire’s Gnostic Cycle and Media Ecology in a Post Pandemic World” and Frank Sligo for “Dystopic Pasts: Technological Adaptation in Literacy Transitions Among 19th Century New Zealand Māori”
2020 - Barry Liss for “The Zossima Principle as an Axiomatic Ideal for Media Ecology Praxis”
2019 - Bernadette Bowen for “The Role of Sassy Socialist Memes in Leftbook”
2018 - Barry Liss for “Hot Media, Technological Transformation and the Plague of Dark Emotions: Viktor Frankl and the Recovery of Meaning”
2017 - Dennis Cali for “Sacramental View of McLuhan, Ong, and Carey”
2016 - Paul Soukup for “Everyone’s Searching for a Savior: Film, Television, Theology, and Media Ecology”
2015 - Heather Crandall and Carolyn Cunningham for “Media Ecology and Hashtag Activism”.
2014 - Kevin Healey for “Coercion, Consent, and the Struggle for Social Media”
2013 - Brett Lunceford for “Telepresence and the Ethics of Digital Cheating”
2012 - Eric Jenkins for “Updating Narcissus, the Ur-Myth of Media, for the Digital Age”
2011 - Eric Jenkins for “Another Punctum”
2010 - Claudia Springer for “Watch the Birdie: Image-Making and Wildlife Conservation”
2009 - Matthew A. Killmeier for “Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Disembodiment, Media, and Innis and Carey”
2008 - Stephanie Bennett for “The City’s Curse; The Church’s Plight: Technology, Communication and the Sacred”
2007 - Anne Pym for “Orality, Secondary Orality, and the Presence of the Word”
2006 - Davis Foulger for “Medium as an Ecology of Genres: Integrating Media Theory and Genre Theory” and Peter A. Maresco and Cheryl A. Casey for “Stories in Stone, Stories on Screen: An Examination of Increased Personalization of Cemetery Memorials”
2005 - Ellen Rose for “The Wiring of Bhutan: A Test Case for Media Ecology in the Non-Western World”
2004 - Kip Redick for “Theme Parks as Sacred Places and Commercial Sanctuaries”
2003 - Arthur W. Hunt, III for “The Image Versus the Word: Old Story, New Twist: A Lament from a Christian Media Ecologist”

The Linda Elson Scholar Award for the Top Student Paper at the MEA Convention

2023 - Desislava Stoeva (St. John’s University) for “‘I Am Big. It’s the Pictures That Got Small’: A Look at Sunset Boulevard Through Marshall McLuhan’s Theory of Hot and Cool Media and Personalities”
2022 - Marina Michelis (PUC-Rio) for “Tupi or Not Tupi, That Is the Question of the Media: Contributions of Amerindian Thought for a Media Ecology Research Agenda”
2021 - Jadna Rodrigues Barbosa for "Godllywood: A Digital Pedagogy for the Evangelical Woman"
2020 - Steven Hicks for “Solace in Sound: Glenn Gould’s Electronic Solitude”
2019 - Austin Hestdalen for “Understanding the Medium of Exchange”
2018 - Matt Lindia for “Colon. Hyphen. Closed Parenthesis. Formal Causes of Figure and Ground in Punctuation”
2017 - Joni McBeth Turville for “If Email Could Speak, What Would It Say? Interviewing Objects in a Digital World”
2016 - Bryan Picciotta for “From the Ground to the Clouds: Minimalist and Maximalist Footwear in the Sport of Running”
2015 - Kate Drazner Hoyt for “The Visual Effect of the Hashtag”
2014 - Mike Plugh for “The Global Village: Globalization and Media Ecology”
2013 - Helma Sawatzky for “Reconfigurations: Unfolding the Spaces of Mobile Listening”
2012 - Angela M. Cirucci for “First Person Paparazzi: Why Social Media Should Be Studied More Like Video Games”
2011 - Helma Sawatsky for “Anemone Theory: An Exploration of Digital Media as Phenomena”
2010 - J. N. Beckham for “Food and Drink: Engaging the Logics of New Mediation”
2009 - Jason Kalin for “Toward a Rhetoric of Hybrid-Space Walking”
2008 - Phil Rose for “René Girard as Media Ecologist”
2007 - Xiaoyan Xiang for “Walling-In and Walling Out”
2006 - David Parisi for “Fingerbombing or ‘Touching Is Good’: The Cultural Construction of Technologized Touch”
2005 - Cuthbert Alexander for “Community Journalism: Hope for a Society Without Heroes” and Michael T. Zimmer for “Media Ecology and Value Sensitive Design: A Combined Approach to Understanding the Biases of Media Technology”
2004 - Megan Rogers for “Taoism, Media Ecology, and the Reason the West Just Can’t ‘Dig it’”
2003 - Lisa Hanson for “PRO-ANA, a Culture Remediated in Cyberspace”