2024 MEA Awards
as presented at our 2024 convention
The Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology to Katherine Fry for Dynamic Media Environments: Expanding the Scope of Media Literacy and Julia M. Hildebrand for Aerial Play: Drone Medium, Mobility, Communication, and Culture
The Walter Benjamin Award for Outstanding Article in the Field of Media Ecology to Isaiah Lorado Wilner for “Body Knowledge, Part I: Dance, Anthropology, and the Erasure of History”
The Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction to Jason Hannan for Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media
The Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form to Paul A. Soukup for A Media Ecology of Theology: Communicating Faith Throughout the Christian Tradition
The Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture to Pablo J. Boczkowski for Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty
The Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics to Peter K. Fallon for Propaganda 2.1: Understanding Propaganda in the Digital Age
The Harold A. Innis Award for Outstanding Thesis or Dissertation in the Field of Media Ecology to Ryan McCullough for Neil Postman’s Loving Resistance Fighter: A Philosophy of Communication in the Age of Technopoly
The Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work to Akemi C. Brodsky for The Brill Pill (novel)
The John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in the Field of Media Ecology to Gordon Pepper for Discarnate: McLuhan’s Wake (video)
The Louis Forsdale Award for Outstanding Educator in the Field of Media Ecology to Cathy Adams
The Jacques Ellul Award for Outstanding Media Ecology Activism to Lori Regattieri
The James W. Carey Award for Outstanding Media Ecology Journalism to Ezra Klein
The Christine L. Nystrom Award for Career Achievement in Service to the Field of Media Ecology to Susan J. Drucker
The Edmund S. Carpenter Award for Career Achievement in Editing in the Field of Media Ecology to Thom Gencarelli
The Walter J. Ong Award for Career Achievement in Scholarship to Corey Anton
The Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity to Cory Doctorow
Convention Top Paper Awards
William Jefferson for “Eye of Media Ecology on AI” and Zachary Loeb (Purdue University) for “‘Be strong and let us be strong’—Lewis Mumford and Erich Fromm, The Story of a Friendship”
Linda Elson Scholar Award for Top Student Paper
Ryan Eisenhuth (Ohio University) for “Media Ecology and the Modern Invention of Race”