2025 MEA Awards
as presented at our 2025 convention
The Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology to Richard Cavell for The Explorations of Edmund Snow Carpenter: Anthropology Upside Down
The Walter Benjamin Award for Outstanding Article in the Field of Media Ecology to Eleni Timplalexi for “Challenging Key Certainties in Communication Through Elleström’s Medium-Centred Model of Communication: ‘Transfer’ and ‘Medium’”
The Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction to Michael Serazio for The Authenticity Industries: Keeping it “Real” in Media, Culture, and Politics
The Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form to Mason Kamana Allred for Seeing Things: Technologies of Vision and the Making of Moromonism
The Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture to Robert Rosenberger for Distracted: A Philosophy of Cars and Phones
The Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics to Jason Puskar for The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans
The Harold A. Innis Award for Outstanding Thesis or Dissertation in the Field of Media Ecology to Shiv Issar for Drone Society: An Abductive Analysis of Civilian Drone Culture
The Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work to William Jefferson for 2102: Pretense, the Play (novel)
The John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in the Field of Media Ecology to Dina Bruno Ciborowski and Robert Albrecht for Man on a Mission (film)
The Louis Forsdale Award for Outstanding Educator in the Field of Media Ecology to Laura Trujillo Liñan
The Jacques Ellul Award for Outstanding Media Ecology Activism to Claudia Sheinbaum
The James W. Carey Award for Outstanding Media Ecology Journalism to Charlie Warzel
The Christine L. Nystrom Award for Career Achievement in Service to the Field of Media Ecology to Matt Thomas
The Edmund S. Carpenter Award for Career Achievement in Editing in the Field of Media Ecology to Peggy Cassidy
The Walter J. Ong Award for Career Achievement in Scholarship to Lera Boroditsky
The Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity to Deborah Tannen