Past MEA Award Recipients
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
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”
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
The Walter J. Ong Award for
Career Achievement in Scholarship
- 2004 - Denise Schmandt-Besserat
- 2005 - James W. Carey
- 2006 - Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
The Neil Postman Award for
Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity
- 2004 - Douglas Rushkoff
- 2005 - Paul Levinson
- 2006 - Howard Rheingold
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”
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”