The seven presentations on this panel speak to the various ways media ecology is both at the center of concerns and critical issues addressed by international scholars in the discipline of communication and at the periphery—including the discipline’s leading edge. In addition, the panel as a whole seeks to counterbalance the notion that the media ecological perspective as a whole is peripheral to mainstream theoretical and methodological approaches both across and within the discipline.

Chair: Thom Gencarelli, Manhattan College

The Center

“Media as Environments”
James Morrison, Babson College

“In the Middle of the Middle of Things”
Ed Tywoniak, St. Mary’s College

“Will the Revolution Be Televised? Media Ecology as the Center of Media Studies”
Thom Gencarelli, Manhattan College

The Periphery

“Media Ecology: The Invisible Environment”
Lance Strate, Fordham University

“We Forgot Something: Media Ecology On The Periphery Of Exporting Democracy”
Michael Giobbe

“From McLuhan’s Massage to Family Guy Nation: A Media Ecological Look at the Past and Future of the Remix”
Brian Cogan, Molloy College

“EEG Analyses of Modern Media Use”
Rob MacDougall, Curry College