The Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology

• 2000 - Neil Postman for Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future
• 2001 - Thomas J. Farrell for Walter Ong’s Contributions to Cultural Studies: The Phenomenology of the Word and I-Thou Communication
• 2002 - Douglas Rushkoff for Coercion: Why We Listen to What “They” Say
• 2003 - Frederick Wasser for Veni, Vidi, Video: The Hollywood Empire and the VCR
• 2004 - Francis Fukuyama for Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
• 2005 - Donald N. Wood for The Unraveling of the West: The Rise of Postmodernism and the Decline of Democracy
• 2006 - Thomas de Zengotita for Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It 
• 2007 - Peter K. Fallon for Printing, Literacy, and Education in Eighteenth Century Ireland: Why the Irish Speak English 
• 2008 - Richard Barbrook for Imaginary Futures: From Thinking Machines to the Global Village

The Walter Benjamin Award for Outstanding Article in the Field of Media Ecology

• 2000 - Walter J. Ong, S.J. for “Digitization Ancient and Modern: Beginnings of Writing and Today’s Computers”
• 2001 - Pablo J. Boczkowski for “Mutual Shaping of Users and Technologies in a National Virtual Community”
• 2002 - Erik P. Bucy and Kimberly S. Gregson for “Media Participation: A Legitimizing Mechanism of Mass Democracy”
• 2003 - Alan Randolph Kluver for “The Logic of New Media in International Affairs”
• 2004 - Susan B. Barnes for “The Development of Graphical User Interfaces and Their Influence on the Future of Human–Computer Interaction”
• 2005 - Sheila J. Nayar for “Invisible Representation: The Oral Contours of a National Popular Cinema”
• 2006 - Edward Wachtel for “Did Picasso and Da Vinci, Newton and Einstein, The Bushman and the Englishman See the Same Thing When They Faced the East at Dawn? Or, Some Lessons I Learned From Marshall McLuhan About Perception, Time, Space, and the Order of the World”
• 2007 - Corey Anton for "Playing with Bateson: Denotation, Logical Types, and Analog and Digital Communication"
• 2008 - Robert MacDougall for “Identity, Electronic Ethos, and Blogs: A Technologic Analysis of Symbolic Exchange on the New News Medium”

The Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction

• 2004 - Corey Anton for Selfhood and Authenticity
• 2005 - Aaron Ben Ze’ev for Love Online: Emotions on the Internet
• 2006 - David Berreby for Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind
• 2007 - Richard A. Lanham for The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information 
• 2008 - Paul Mason Fotsch for Watching the Traffic Go By: Transportation and Isolation in Urban America 

The Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form

• 2000 - Robert K. Logan for The Sixth Language: Learning a Living in the Internet Age
• 2001 - Raymond Gozzi, Jr. for The Power of Metaphor in the Age of Electronic Media
• 2002 - Kevin G. Barnhurst and John Nerone for The Form of News: A History
• 2003 - N. Katherine Hayles for Writing Machines
• 2004 - Susan Sontag for Regarding the Pain of Others
• 2005 - Heike Wiese for Numbers, Language, and the Human Mind
• 2006 - Guy Deutscher for The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind’s Greatest Invention
• 2007 - Martin H. Levinson for Sensible Thinking for Turbulent Times 
• 2008 - Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites for No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy

The Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture

• 2002 - Susan B. Barnes for Online Connections: Internet Interpersonal Relationships and Stuart Biegel for Beyond Our Control? Confronting the Limits of Our Legal System in the Age of Cyberspace
• 2003 - Nancy A. Walker for Shaping Our Mothers’ World: American Women’s Magazines
• 2004 - Thomas L. Friedman for Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11
• 2005 - Robert Albrecht for Mediating the Muse: A Communications Approach to Music, Media and Cultural Change
• 2006 - Charlton D. McIlwain for When Death Goes Pop: Death, Media and the Remaking of Community
• 2007 - David MacDougall for The Corporeal Image: Film, Ethnography, and the Senses
• 2008 - Paul Rutherford for A World Made Sexy: Freud to Madonna

The Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics

• 2000 - Paul Levinson for Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium
• 2001 - Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin for Remediation: Understanding New Media
• 2002 - Jack Lule for Daily News, Eternal Stories: The Mythological Role of Journalism
• 2003 - Emily Thompson for The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900—1933
• 2004 - Scott Eastham for Biotech Time-Bomb: How Genetic Engineering Could Irreversably Change Our World
• 2005 - Margaret Cassidy for Bookends: The Changing Media Environment of American Classrooms
• 2006 - Casey Man Kong Lum for Perspectives on Culture, Technology and Communication: The Media Ecology Tradition
• 2007 - Timothy C. Campbell for Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi and to Fred Turner for From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
• 2008 - Steve Dixon for Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation

The Harold A. Innis Award for Outstanding Thesis or Dissertation in the Field of Media Ecology

• 2000 - Donna Flayhan for Marxism, Medium Theory, and American Cultural Studies: The Question of Determination
• 2001 - Lori Ramos for Self-Initiated Writing Practices and Conceptions of Writing Among Young Urban Adolescents
• 2002 - Janet Sternberg for Misbehavior in Cyber Places: The Regulation of Online Conduct in Virtual Communities on the Internet
• 2003 - Keith Hampton for Living the Wired Life in the Wired Suburb: Netville, Glocalization and Civil Society
• 2004 - Brian Cogan for Wired Worlds: An Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of the Personal Computer and the Internet
• 2005 - Mary Ann Allison for Gecyberschaft: A Theoretical Model for the Analysis of Emerging Electronic Communities
• 2006 - Susan Jacobson for Scrapbook of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: Hypertext and the Representation of History  
• 2007 - Adriana Braga for Feminilidade Mediada por Computador: Interação Social no Circuito-Blogue [Computer-Mediated Femininity: Social Interaction on the Blog Circuit] 
• 2008 - Stephanie Bennett for The Disappearance of Silence: A Dialectical Exploration of the Interpersonal Implications of Personal Mobile Media as Viewed through the Lens of Jacques Ellul's La Technique

The Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work

• 2003 - Paul Levinson for The Consciousness Plague
• 2004 - William Gibson for Pattern Recognition
• 2005 - John G. McDaid for “Keyboard Practice, Consisting of an Aria with Diverse Variations for the Harpsichord with Two Manuals”
• 2006 - Rick Moody for The Diviners
• 2007 - Janna Levin for A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines 
• 2008 - Jean-Claude Carrière for Please, Mr. Einstein

The John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in the Field of Media Ecology

• 2000 - Jerome Agel for The Medium is the Massage (audio CD and book)
• 2001 - Douglas Rushkoff for The Merchants of Cool (television documentary produced for the PBS program Frontline, initially aired February 26, 2001)
• 2002 - William Bly and John McDaid for Media Ecology Unplugged (audio music recording, available on CD and as downloadable MP3 files at www.infomonger.com/meunplug/.
• 2003 - Kevin McMahon for McLuhan’s Wake (video documentary produced by Primitive Entertainment and the National Film Board of Canada)
• 2004 - John Bishop and Harald Prins for Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me! (documentary film; DVD distributed by Media Generation)
• 2005 - Toni Urbano and NYU-TV Productions for A Conversation with Neil Postman (video documentary)
• 2006 - Deiren Masterson for McLuhan Way: In Search of Truth (video documentary)  
• 2007 - Michael Wesch for The Machine is Us/ing Us (video on YouTube.com)
• 2008 - Eric Goodman for Thus Spoke the Spectacle (videos and website)

The Louis Forsdale Award for Outstanding Educator in the Field of Media Ecology

• 2000 - Christine L. Nystrom
• 2001 - Joshua Meyrowitz
• 2002 - Edmund Carpenter
• 2003 - James W. Carey
• 2004 - Gary Gumpert
• 2005 - Frank E. X. Dance
• 2006 - Terence P. Moran  
• 2007 - Octavio Islas
• 2008 - Lee Thayer

The Jacques Ellul Award for Outstanding Media Ecology Activism

• 2000 - Stephanie B. Gibson
• 2001 - Dennis Gallagher
• 2002 - Parry Aftab
• 2003 - Ronald J. Deibert
• 2004 - The Reverend Everett C. Parker
• 2005 - Jerry Brown
• 2006 - Andrew Rasiej  
• 2007 - Donna Flayhan 
• 2008 - Margot Hardenbergh

The James W. Carey Award for Outstanding Media Ecology Journalism

• 2007 - Philip Marchand
• 2008 - Marvin Kitman

The Walter J. Ong Award for Career Achievement in Scholarship

• 2004 - Denise Schmandt-Besserat
• 2005 - James W. Carey
• 2006 - Elizabeth L. Eisenstein  
• 2007 - Jay David Bolter
• 2008 - Joshua Meyrowitz

The Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity

• 2004 - Douglas Rushkoff
• 2005 - Paul Levinson
• 2006 - Howard Rheingold  
• 2007 - Eric McLuhan
• 2008 - Fritjof Capra

The MEA Convention Top Paper Award

• 2003 - Arthur W. Hunt, III for “The Image Versus the Word: Old Story, New Twist: A Lament from a Christian Media Ecologist”
• 2004 - Kip Redick for “Theme Parks as Sacred Places and Commercial Sanctuaries”
• 2005 - Ellen Rose for “The Wiring of Bhutan: A Test Case for Media Ecology in the Non-Western World”
• 2006 - Davis Foulger for “Medium as an Ecology of Genres: Integrating Media Theory and Genre Theory” and Peter A. Maresco and Cheryl A. Casey for “Stories in Stone, Stories on Screen: An Examination of Increased Personalization of Cemetery Memorials”
• 2007 - Anne Pym for “Orality, Secondary Orality, and the Presence of the Word”
• 2008 - Stephanie Bennett for “The City's Curse; The Church's Plight: Technology, Communication and the Sacred”

The Linda Elson Scholar Award for the Top Student Paper at the MEA Convention

• 2003 - Lisa Hanson for “PRO-ANA, a Culture Remediated in Cyberspace”
• 2004 - Megan Rogers for “Taoism, Media Ecology, and the Reason the West Just Can't ‘Dig it’”
• 2005 - Cuthbert Alexander for “Community Journalism: Hope for a Society Without Heroes” and Michael T. Zimmer for “Media Ecology and Value Sensitive Design: A Combined Approach to Understanding the Biases of Media Technology”
• 2006 - David Parisi for “Fingerbombing or ‘Touching Is Good’: The Cultural Construction of Technologized Touch”
• 2007 - Xiaoyan Xiang for “Walling-In and Walling Out”
• 2008 - Phil Rose for “René Girard as Media Ecologist”