2023 MEA Awards
as presented at our 2023 convention
The Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology to Laura Trujillo Liñan for Formal Cause in Marshall McLuhan’s Thinking: An Aristotelian Perspective
The Walter Benjamin Award for Outstanding Article in the Field of Media Ecology to Austin Hestdalen for “The Kind of Problem a Smart City Is”
The Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction to 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
The Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form to Adeena Karasick for Massaging the Medium: Seven Pechakuchas
The Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture to Andrew Conte for Death of the Daily News: How Citizen Gatekeepers Can Save Local Journalism
The Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics to Paul Roquet for The Immersive Enclosure: Virtual Reality in Japan
The Harold A. Innis Award for Outstanding Thesis or Dissertation in the Field of Media Ecology to Graeme Flett for Media Ecology, Congregational Life, and Christian Identity
The Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work to Paul Levinson for “It’s Real Life” (short story and radio play)
The John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in the Field of Media Ecology to Jenna Ng and Oliver Tomkins for The New Virtuality: A Creative Website on Disappearing Media Boundaries (online multimedia work)
The Louis Forsdale Award for Outstanding Educator in the Field of Media Ecology to Erik Garrett
The Jacques Ellul Award for Outstanding Media Ecology Activism to Michelle Shocked
The James W. Carey Award for Outstanding Media Ecology Journalism to Farhad Manjoo
The Christine L. Nystrom Award for Career Achievement in Service to the Field of Media Ecology to Michael Plugh
The Edmund S. Carpenter Award for Career Achievement in Editing in the Field of Media Ecology to Carolyn Wiebe and Susan Maushart
The Walter J. Ong Award for Career Achievement in Scholarship to Michael S. Schudson
The Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity to Richard Sennett
Convention Top Paper Award
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”
Linda Elson Scholar Award for Top Student Paper
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”
2023 MEA Awards CommitteesBook Awards
Benjamin Award
Innis Award
Shelley Award
Culkin Award
Forsdale Award
| Ellul Award
Carey Award
Nystrom Award
Carpenter Award
Ong Award
Postman Award
|