Twelfth Annual Convention, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
June 23–26, 2011
Edited by Catherine Adams and Peggy Jubien

Reviewers: Eva Berger, Gary Bowden, John Carey, Wayne DeFehr, Leo Fahey, Geri Forsberg, Yun-Csang Ghimn, Sara Maria Gomez Rivera, Silvia Maria Guerra Molina, Arthur Hunt, Karen Hutchins, Stacey Irwin, Angela Keller, Dong-Hoo Lee, Justin Lerberg, Brenton Malin, James Morrison, Scott Peterson, Lisa Prins, Robert White

• Cover and Table of Contents (PDF)
• Almond Aguila and Daylin Breen, “Unlocking Perspective with Quick Response Codes: The Hunt for Media Literacy in the City” (PDF)
• Per-Olof Erixon and Johan Elmfeldt, “School Writing in a Changing Media Ecology” (PDF)
• Sang-Hee Kweon, Kyung-Ho Hwang, and Do-Hyun Jo, “Time and Space Perception on Media Platforms” (PDF)
• André Amaral Lucena, “The Print Newspaper in the Information Age: An Analysis of Trends and Perspectives” (PDF)
• Yuping Mao and Claudia Hale, “An Examination of Chinese Employees’ use of Technologies” (PDF)
• M.S. Ana Patrícia Oliveira and Maria Conceição Lopes, “Scratch in Kindergarten: A Space and a Place of Communicational, Ludic and Creative Intermediations” (PDF)
• Janet Sternberg, “Space, Place, and the Media Ecology Association” (President’s Address) (PDF)
• Minhao Zeng, “Examining Geocaching Practices through a Mobilities Lens” (PDF)

Eleventh Annual Convention, University of Maine, Orono, ME
June 10–13, 2010
Edited by Ellen Rose, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Reviewers: Mary Alexander, Mary Ann Allison, Corey Anton, Susan Barnes, Robert Blechman, Tom Bruneau, Jack Ciak, Brian Cogan, Frank Dance, Susan Drucker, Leo Fahey, Stephanie Gibson, Ray Gozzi, Jr., Bruce Gronbeck, Arthur Hunt, Paul Messaris, James Morrison, Sheila Nayar, Paul Soukup, Sara van den Berg, David Walczyk

• Cover and Table of Contents (PDF)
• Janet Sternberg, “Juggling for the MEA, and the Value of Volunteerism in Support of Scholarship” (President’s Address) (PDF)
• Andrea Polli, “Breathtaking: Media Art and Public Participation in Climate Issues” (Plenary Address) (PDF)
• Chet Bowers, “The Challenge of Making the Transition from Individual to Ecological Intelligence in an Era of Global Warming” (Plenary Address) (PDF)
• Lance Strate, “Korzybski, Luhmann, & McLuhan” (PDF)
• Marco Adria, “Natural Environments as Figure on the Ground of the City” (PDF)
• Stephanie Bennett, “Seeking the Sound of Silence: Human Presence and the Acoustics of Solitude” (PDF)
• Gary Bowden, “Rock, Paper, Scissors: Uncertainty, Innovation, and the Evolving Ecology of Climate Change Discourse” (PDF)
• Alexandre Laurin, “Location Information in Everyday Life: Using Media Ecology to Understand the Fate of the Telephone Directory” (PDF)
• Stacey O. Irwin, “The Poetics of Blurred Boundaries: Experiencing Technology Anew” (PDF)
• Maria Elizabete Barretto de Menezes Lopes & Antonio Ribeiro de Almeida Júnior, “Mapping the Sources of Information for Journalistic Materials Concerning Pesticides Found in Some Brazilian Magazines and Newspapers” (PDF)
• Jane R. Thiebaud, “Effects of Technology on People: Living F2F Conversation and Social Interaction” (PDF)
• Leila Christine Nadir, “What is Eco-Art?” (PDF)

Tenth Annual Convention, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO
June 19–21, 2009
Edited by Paul A. Soukup, S.J., Santa Clara University

Reviewers: Mary Ann Allison, Stephanie Bennett, Peter Fallon, Thom Gencarelli, Stephanie Gibson, Ray Gozzi, Paul Grosswiler, Jerry Harp, Sheila Nayar, Valerie Peterson, Ellen Rose, Sara van den Berg, Anthony Wachs

• Paul A. Soukup, S.J., “Editor’s Introduction” (PDF)
• Janet Sternberg, “President’s Address: A Time of Transition” (PDF)
• Eric McLuhan, “Literacy in a New Key” (Keynote Address) (PDF)
• Bruce E. Gronbeck, “The Gnarly Problematics of Vision and the Visual” (Plenary Address) (PDF)
• Matthew A. Killmeier, “The Body Medium and Media Ecology: Disembodiment in the Theory and Practice of Modern Media” (Top Paper) (PDF)
• Jason Kalin, “Toward a Rhetoric of Hybrid-Space Walking” (Top Student Paper) (PDF)
• Vincent Casaregola, “The ‘Exact Location’ of the Voice: Walter Ong and the ‘Embodiment’ of Discourse” (PDF)
• Jean-François Vallée, “Paradoxes of Orality and Literacy: The Curious Case of the Renaissance Dialogue” (PDF)
• Thomas M. Dieckmann, “‘The right reward of an evil-tongued schelm’: The Rhapsodic Weaving of Oral Rhetoric and Residue and the Printed Word in Sir Philip Sidney’s Defence of Leicester” (PDF)
• Michael Giobbe, “How Wide and How Long, How High and How Deep: The Role of Media Ecology in Church History” (PDF)
• James F. Scott, “Altered States: Landscape, Genre, and the Burden of Guilt in Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven” (PDF)
• Ronan Hallowell, “Toward a Media Ecological Psychopharmacology” (PDF)
• Ronan Hallowell, “Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela’s Contribution to Media Ecology: Autopoiesis, The Santiago School of Cognition, and Enactive Cognitive Science” (PDF)

Ninth Annual Convention, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
June 19–22, 2008
Edited by Anne Pym, California State University, East Bay

Reviewers: James C. Morrison, Robert MacDougall, Judith Yaross Lee, Ellen Rose

• Stephanie Bennett, “The City’s Curse, The Church’s Plight: Technology, Communication, and the Sacred (PDF)
• Christine M. Tracy, “Ecology and Democracy: Citizen Journalism in the Digital Age” (PDF)
• Christine M. Tracy and Robert K. Logan, “A Biological Approach to the Rhetoric of Emergent Media” (PDF)
• Complete Proceedings, Volume 9 (PDF)

Eighth Annual Convention, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Estado de México, Mexico City
June 6–10, 2007
Edited by Robert Albrecht (New Jersey City University) and Fernando Gutiérrez ( Tecnológico de Monterrey, Estado de México)

Reviewers: Alejandro Ocampo (Tecnológico de Monterrey), Claudia Benassini (Universidad La Salle)

• Robert Albrecht, “What’s a Nice Guy Like You Doing in a Place Like This? The Pivotal Role of Ethnographic Research in the Evolution of Media Ecological Theory (PDF)
• Adriana Braga, “Computer-Mediated Femininity: An Ethnographic Approach to a Brazilian Blog” (PDF)
• Édison Gastaldo, “Soccer, Media and Culture: An Ethnography of the 2006 World Cup in Brazilian Cities” (PDF)
• Paul Guzzardo, “Build a Better Barrel: A Video Documentary by Paul Guzzardo”
• David Holmes, “The Fallacies and Fortunes of ‘Interactivity’ in Communication Theory” (PDF)
• Robert Logan, “The Emergence of Language as an Autocatalytic Set of the Elements or Mechanisms that Make Speech Possible: An Enquiry” (PDF)
• Eric McLuhan, “Media Ecology and the New Nomads” (PDF)
• Ellen Rose, “Paper or PowerPoint? How Should Media Ecologists Present Their Ideas?” (PDF)
• Complete Proceedings, Volume 8” (PDF)

Seventh Annual Convention, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
June 8–11, 2006
Edited by James C. Morrison, Emerson College

• Peter A. Maresco and Cheryl Casey, “Stories in Stone, Stories on Screen: An Examination of Increased Personalization of Cemetery Memorials” (PDF)
• Paul S. Lieber, “What about ‘Bob’?: The Media Equation a Decade Later”
• Amit Dinur and Yuval Kameil, “Sacrificing Privacy for the Sake of Fame: How Television is Helping to Erode Privacy in Israel”
• Fred Cheyunski, “Tell Me Why: Conducting a ‘Why Words’ Exercise at the MEA Convention and Its Meaning for Media Ecology”
• Dale A. Bradley, “From Wooton to Workstation: Mechanisms of the Visible in Office Spaces”

Sixth Annual Convention, Fordham University, New York, NY
June 22–26, 2005
Edited by Tony Kelso, Iona College

Reviewers: Susan Barnes, Margaret Cassidy, Brian Cogan, Tom Farrell, Donna Flayhan Michael Grabowski, Margot Hardenbergh, Arthur Hunt, Judith Yaross Lee Casey Lum, Lori Ramos, Laura Tropp

• Tony Kelso, Editor’s Note (PDF)
• Lance Strate, “President’s Address”
• Cuthbert F. Alexander, “Community Journalism: Hope for a Society Without Heroes” (PDF)
• Robert K. Blechman, “The Heart of the Matter: An Exploration of the Persistence of Core Beliefs” (PDF)
• Twyla Gibson, “Epilogue to Plato: The Bias of Literacy” (PDF)
• Faye Ran, “Media Ecology and the Arts” (PDF)
• Ellen Rose, “The Wiring of Bhutan: A Test Case for Media Ecology in the Non-Western World” (PDF)
• Paul A. Soukup, S.J., “Looking Is Not Enough: Reflections on Walter J. Ong and Media Ecology” (PDF)
• Sara van den Berg, “The Living Legacy of Walter J. Ong, S.J. at Saint Louis University” (PDF)
• Michael Zimmer, “Media Ecology and Value Sensitive Design: A Combined Approach to Understanding the Biases of Media Technology” (PDF)

Fifth Annual Convention, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
June 10–13, 2004
Edited by Arthur W. Hunt, III, University of Tennessee

• W. Michelle Harris, “Transient Reformations: Transforming Place through Projection” (PDF)
• John Huxford, “Surveillance, Witnessing and Spectatorship: The News and the ‘War of Images’” (PDF)
• Robert K. Logan, “The Extended Mind Model of the Origin of Language and Culture” (PDF)
• Ed Wiltse, “Fans, Geeks and Nerds, and the Politics of Online Communities” (PDF)

Fourth Annual Convention, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
June 5–8, 2003
Edited by Brian Cogan, Molloy College

• Ulla Bunz, “‘We speak in code, in case the telephone operator should be eavesdropping!’: How Popular Movies Reflect Society’s attitude toward technology” (PDF)
• Fred Cheyunski, “A Cybernetic Session for Re-Mapping Communication Environments and How Technology is Reshaping Our Media Landscape, or ‘A Boogie Woogie Bugle Ploy for Helping Our Companies See’” (PDF)
• Lisa Hanson, “Pro-ana, a Culture Remediated in Cyberspace” (PDF)
• Arthur W. Hunt III, “The Image Versus the Word; Old Story, New Twist: A Lament from a Christian Media Ecologist”
• Marvin Kitman, “I Am a VCR: The Impact of Television and Media on One of the Finest Minds in Western Civilization” (PDF)
• Liu, “Computer Gaming Addiction in the Age of EverQuest and Bahngs”

Third Annual Convention, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY
June 21–23, 2002
Edited by Margot Hardenbergh

Reviewers: Mary Alexander, Lila Bauman, Ralph Beliveau, Susan Cook, Jerry Domotob George Gladney, Tony Kelso, Bill Petkanas, Zhenbin Sun Frederick Wasser, David E. Weber

• Lance Strate, “Media Ecology as a Scholarly Activity” (President’s Address) (PDF)
• Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, “Old Media in the New Millennium” (Keynote Address) (PDF)
• Leonard Shlain, “The Curse of Literacy” (PDF)
• Donald Theall, “From the Cyberglobal Chaosmos to the Gutenberg Galaxy: The Prehistory of Cyberelectronic Language(s)” (PDF)
• Susan B. Barnes, “Media Ecology and Symbolic Interactionism” (PDF)
• Donna Flayhan, “Hidden Dimensions of Hall in Media Ecology” (PDF)
• Janet Sternberg, “The Yin and Yang of Media Ecology” (PDF)
• Steve Bailey, “The I and the Me(dia): The Contribution of Recent Neo-Meadian Philosophy to an Understanding of the Media-Saturated Social Environment” (PDF)
• Dong-Hoo Lee, “Media Discourses on the Other: Japanese History Textbook Controversies in Korea” (PDF)
• Kevin G. Barnhurst and John Nerone, “The Form of News: Thoughts on the Newspaper as Environment” (PDF)
• Fred Cheyunski, “‘It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got Those Strings’ or Bringing Media Ecology and Applied Behavioral Science Together for Enhanced Awareness and Improved Action” (PDF)
• Peter C. Costello, “The Influence of Videotaping on Theory and Technique in Psychotherapy: A Chapter in the Epistemology of Media” (PDF)
• Damian Ward Hey, “The Majestic Game, Interactive Media Environments, and a New Turing Test: Blurring the Boundaries between Virtual and Real” (PDF)
• Joyce Y. M. Nip, “Technology and Contingent Conditions in Community Formation on the Internet” (PDF)

Second Annual Convention, New York University, New York, NY
June 15–16, 2001
Edited by Donna Flayhan

Reviewers: Shirley Peroutka and Raymond Barcia

• Donna Flayhan, Editor’s Note (PDF)
• Lance Strate, “The Flight of MinErvA’s Owl” (President’s Address) (PDF)
• Joshua Meyrowitz, “Morphing McLuhan: Medium Theory for a New Millennium” (Keynote Address) (PDF)
• Paul Grosswiler, “Jürgen Habermas: Media Ecologist?” (PDF)
• Cheryl Anne Casey, “Online Religion and Finding Faith on the Web: An Examination of Beliefnet.org” (PDF)
• Jean-Paul Fourmentraux, “Internet Artwork, Artists, and Computer Analysts: Sharing the Creative Process” (PDF)
• Norman Steinhart, “The Interactions of Contextualization and Abstraction Within and Between Media: A Fundamental Process of Media Ecology” (PDF)

First Annual Convention, Fordham University, New York, NY
June 16–17, 2000
Edited by Janet Sternberg (New York University) and Mark Lipton (Vassar College)

Reviewers: Robert Albrecht, Lila Docken Bauman, Marco Calavita, Brian Cogan, Salvatore J. Fallica, Michael Grabowski, Ruth Liberman, Maria Marewski, Lourdes Sernaque

• Cover and Table of Contents (PDF)
• Lance Strate, “The Ecology of Association” (President’s Address) (PDF)
• Neil Postman, “The Humanism of Media Ecology” (Keynote Address) (PDF)
• Paul Levinson, “McLuhan and Media Ecology” (PDF)
• Eric McLuhan, “The Fordham Experiment” (PDF)
• Stephen Biggs, “Global Village or Urban Jungle: Culture, Self-Construal, and the Internet” (PDF)
• James C. Morrison, “Hypermedia and Synesthesia” (PDF)
• Janet Sternberg, “Virtual Misbehavior: Breaking Rules of Conduct in Online Environments” (PDF)