The Media Ecology Association

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.

What is media ecology?

“Media ecology looks into the matter of how media of communication affect human perception, understanding, feeling, and value; and how our interaction with media facilitates or impedes our chances of survival.”—Neil Postman

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MEA Events

The Ninth Annual Convention of the MEA -

Communication, Technology and the Sacred
Santa Clara, California
June 19-22, 2008

Registration
Draft Program

MEA at the 94th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association

unCONVENTIONAL!

San Diego, November 21–24, 2008
More details at the NCA website

Submission Deadline: February 13, 2008

MEA at the Annual Convention of the International Communication Association

Call for Papers TBA

May 22-26, 2008 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Details at the ICA website

Submission Deadline: CLOSED

MEA at the 99th Annual Convention of the Eastern Communication Association

Call for Papers
May 1-4, 2008 Pittsburgh, PA

Details at the ECA website

Submission Deadline: CLOSED

Joining MEA

Membership in the Media Ecology Association is open to anyone—faculty, students, business people, professionals—interested in exploring the interactions between communications media and culture.

Membership dues include annual subscription to our print journal, Explorations in Media Ecology {EME}, published quarterly

The MEA Newsletter—In Medias Res

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 {at} 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.

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