2019 MEA Awards

• The Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology to Mark A. McCutcheon for The Medium is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology
• The Walter Benjamin Award for Outstanding Article in the Field of Media Ecology to Nicholas Grodsky, Julia Hildebrand, and Ernest Hakanen for “Screens as Human and Non-Human Artefacts: Expanding the McLuhans’ Tetrad”
• The Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction to Laura Tropp for Grandparents in a Digital Age: The Third Act
• The Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form to Eviatar Zerubavel for Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable
• The Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture to Shannon Mattern for Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media
• The Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics to Antoine Bousquet for The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone
• The Harold A. Innis Award for Outstanding Thesis or Dissertation in the Field of Media Ecology to Melinda L. Farrington for “The Role for Rhetoric: Ong’s Ramus Research as a Hermeneutic Opening for Mediated Communication”
• The Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work to Malka Older for Infomocracy
• The John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in the Field of Media Ecology to Julia Hildebrand and Barry Vacker, creators/curators, for “Hot and Cool in the Media(s)cene: A McLuhan Style Art and Theory Project”
• The Louis Forsdale Award for Outstanding Educator in the Field of Media Ecology to Thomas Gencarelli
• The Jacques Ellul Award for Outstanding Media Ecology Activism to Andrew McLuhan for The McLuhan Institute
• The James W. Carey Award for Outstanding Media Ecology Journalism to Mathew Ingram
• The Christine L. Nystrom Award for Career Achievement in Service to the Field of Media Ecology to Fernando Gutiérrez Cortés
• The Edmund S. Carpenter Award for Career Achievement in Editing in the Field of Media Ecology to Phil Rose
• The Walter J. Ong Award for Career Achievement in Scholarship to Werner Kelber
• The Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity to Nora Bateson
• The MEA Convention Top Paper Award to Bernadette Bowen, Bowling Green State University for “The Role of Sassy Socialist Memes in Leftbook”
• The Linda Elson Scholar Award for the Top Student Paper at the MEA Convention to Austin Hestdalen, Duquesne University for “Understanding the Medium of Exchange”