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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.
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.MEA Events:
The Twelfth Annual Convention of the MEA
June 23–26, 2011
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Canada
"Space, Place, and the McLuhan Legacy"
Preliminary Call For Papers
Deadline for
submissions:
November 1, 2010
For any information about the convention
please contact:
Marco Adria
Director,
Graduate Program in Communications and
Technology,
University of Alberta, 10230 Jasper Avenue,
Edmonton, AB,
Canada T5J 4P6.
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MEA at the 96th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association
Building Bridges
San Francisco, California
November 14–17, 2010
More details at the NCA website
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A Media Ecology Introductory Reading List
The Media Ecology Introductory Reading List is a guide to basic readings in this field. The list is integrated by 33 books that are more or less fully in the tradition of media ecology.
For those already familiar with some of the scholars who share the media ecology perspective, this list may provide suggestions for further reading, as well as conveying a sense of the breadth of the field.
The list includes the following authors: Marshall McLuhan, Harold Innis, Walter Ong, Neil Postman, Lewis Mumford, Jacques Ellul, Elizabeth Eisenstein, Erick Havelock, Edmund Carpenter, Jack Goody, Denise Schmandt-Besserat, Robert K. Logan, Joshua Meyrowitz, James W. Carey, Walter Benjamin, Daniel J. Boorstin, Susan Sontag, Gary Gumpert, Camille Paglia, Tony Schwartz, Regis Debray, David L. Altheide, Jay David Bolter, Paul Levinson, Christine Nystrom.
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The Eleventh Annual Convention of the
Media Ecology Association
Photos from The Eleventh Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association.
June 10-13, 2010. University of Maine. Orono, Maine
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The MEA Social Networks
Join the MEA social networks for information, interaction, collaboration, conversation, and learning about media ecology.
The networks are open to anyone who wants to share comments, thoughts, insights, and questions about media environments.
You don't need to be an MEA member to participate.
 
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Media Ecology News Section
Save the Dates: June 23-26, 2011
The Media Ecology Association -
May 4, 2010
The Twelfth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. 2011 MEA Convention theme and details to be announced at this year's MEA Convention in Orono, Maine, USA, June 10-13, 2010
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COMMENT: Whose Digital Media Revolution
Rossland Telegraph -
May 10, 2010
If together we engage at the right moments, we can work with policy makers and politicians to guarantee a new media ecology that is by and for us. ...
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| The future of media research
MediaTel Newsline -
May 12, 2010
This type of analysis will help us better understand how & where the 'new media ecology' will eventually settle out to and how we should frame future ...
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Tantaros: Obama's rant agaisnt iPads & Xboxes straight out of stone age
New York Daily News -
May 13, 2010
Wasn't it the new media ecology that empowered a generation to propel Obama into office? And weren't these tech tools key to that victory? ...
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Joining MEA
Membership in the Media Ecology Association is open to anyone— faculty, students, business people, professionals—interested in exploring the interactions between media, communications, and culture.
Membership dues include annual subscription to our print journal, Explorations in Media Ecology {EME}, published quarterly.
Annual dues for 2010 are as follows:
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US$35 |
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US$80 |
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US$160 |
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The MEA Newsletter
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 B. Gibson, PhD
Director, Program in Publications Design
School of Communications Design
Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts
University of Baltimore
1420 North Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21201
410-837-6050
410-837-6029 fax
sgibson at ubalt.edu
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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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