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Margaret Cassidy is Professor and Chair of the Communications Department at Adelphi University. A graduate of the Media Ecology Ph.D. program, she is the author of… Read more…BookEnds: The Changing Media Environment of American Classrooms (Hampton Press, 2003) and Children, Media, and American History: Printed Poison, Pernicious Stuff, and Other Terrible Temptations (Routledge, 2018). | Vice President2021
Adriana Braga, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro Adriana Braga is Associate Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq/Brazil). She served on… Read more…the MEA Board of Directors between 2007–2009 and 2018–2020 as Member-at-Large. She is a Member of the Inclusivity Committee of the MEA. Her doctoral thesis "Computer-mediated femininity: social interaction in the blog circuit" was the winner of the CAPES Thesis Award (MEC/Brazil) and The Harold Innis Award (Media Ecology Association / USA) in 2007. Author of the books Summer-Body (2016); Maternal-Electronic Personae (2008); CMC, Identities and Gender (2005) and the book coauthored with Lance Strate and Paul Levinson Introdução à Ecologia das Mídias (Loyola, 2019 - forthcoming). She currently coordinates the Digital Media Lab – LabMiD, where she develops projects in digital communication, Brazilian culture, mobile telephony, digital literacy, artificial intelligence, speech, social interaction, ethnomethodology, gender and technology. In 2019, she was a visiting professor at the Department of Communication at the University of Macau, China. | Michael Plugh is Assistant Professor of Communication at Manhattan College. He is Past-President of the New York State Communication Association, current President of the New York Society for General Semantics, and currently serves as Vice President, Elect of the Media Ecology Association. Mike’s research interests include media ecology and general semantics, particularly in the area of education. |
Paul A. Soukup, S.J., has worked with media ecology for over 15 years and presently serves as Treasurer of the Media Ecology Association. His academic interests include…
…orality and literacy studies and the intersection of communication and theology. He and Thomas J. Farrell have edited four volumes of the collected works of Walter J. Ong, S.J., Faith and Contexts (1992-1999) as well as An Ong Reader (2002), a collection geared towards communication study. Most recently, he and Farrell have edited a collection of essays applying Ong’s thought to media ecology, Of Ong & Media Ecology: Essays in Communication, Composition, and Literary Studies (2012). Other publications include Communication and Theology (1983); Christian Communication: A Bibliographical Survey (1989), Media, Culture, and Catholicism (1996), Mass Media and the Moral Imagination with Philip J. Rossi (1994), and Fidelity and Translation: Communicating the Bible in New Media with Robert Hodgson (1999). This latter publication grows out of his work on the American Bible Society’s New Media Bible. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D., 1985), Soukup teaches in the Communication Department at Santa Clara University. Fr. Soukup has served on the Board of Trustees of the American Bible Society and holds membership in the Religious Communication Association and the National Communication Association, as well as the Media Ecology Association. | Ashley Moore is a Ph.D. Candidate in Public Communication and Technology at Colorado State University. Her research interests include critical examinations into the ways biological and cultural narratives about race affect public conceptions and communication of race and, ultimately, determine society's ability to redress racial inequalities.… Read moreHer dissertation seeks to identify if and how individuals use biological or cultural perspectives to identify, describe, and justify their own and others' race in online and offline spaces. Ashley’s interest in the MEA is rooted in her own fight for racial justice. As a black woman and native of St. Louis, Missouri, she has seen and experienced the effects of racism within the lives and communities around her – including her own. Theoretical perspectives from media ecology have given her an opportunity to reconceptualize the way we think about race by offering a new understanding of our racial experience – as technology rather than biology. | Fernando Gutiérrez (Mexico) is the head of the Division of Humanities and Education at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (State of Mexico Campus). He earned a PhD in… Read more…Design and Data Visualization from The Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM). In October 2008 he was distinguished with the “Gunther Saupe” award, granted by the CICOM (Confederation of the Marketing Communication Industry in Mexico). Four years after, he was recognized with the 2012 FIMPES research prize. In May 2014, he received the Innovation Award from the Monterrey Institute of Technology (State of Mexico Campus). Fernando is an author of several titles about media and information technologies; and part of the National System of Researchers in Mexico. His interest focuses on the exploration of different media environments. For more information visit his personal page: http://www.fergut.com. |
Susan J. Drucker (Juris Doctor, St. John’s University) is a Distinguished Professor of Journalism in the Department of Journalism/Media Studies, School of Communication, Hofstra University. Read moreShe is an attorney, and treasurer of the Urban Communication Foundation. She is the author and editor of 13 books and over 150 articles and book chapters including two volumes of the Urban Communication Reader, Regulating Convergence (Lang, 2010), Voices in the Street: Gender, Media and Public Space and two editions of Real Law @ Virtual Space: The Regulation of Cyberspace (1999, 2005), Regulating Social Media: Legal and Ethical Consideration (2013) with Gary Gumpert. She co-edited Urban Communication Regulations: Communication Freedoms and Limits (Lang, 2018). Her latest book is Fake News: Real Issues in Modern Communication with Russell Chun (Lang. 2020). She received the Walter J. Ong Award for Career Achievement in Scholarship from MEA in 2018. Her work examines the relationship between media technology and human factors, particularly as viewed from a legal perspective. | Originally from Seattle, Matt Thomas did his undergraduate work at the University of Southern California and his graduate work at the University of Iowa, where he got his PhD in American Studies. His interests lie… Read more…at the intersection of media, technology, identity, and American history. His work has appeared in a variety of venues, both academic and popular. He currently lives in Iowa City, IA, where he teaches at Kirkwood Community College. | Ernest A. Hakanen is Head and Professor of the Communication, Culture, and Media program in the Department of Communication at Drexel University, Philadelphia PA, USA. His research interests lie in… Read more…intellectual history with an emphasis on media effects, general systems theory, cybernetics, media ecology, post structural theory, and critical media theory. He is also known for his studies of emotional use of music and other communication technologies. His publications can be found in edited volumes and journals such as the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Social Semiotics, Music and Society, the Howard Journal of Communications, ETC: A Review of General Semantics, and Explorations in Media Ecology. Ernie is the author of Branding the Teleself: Media Effects Discourse and the Changing Self and editor of several other books. He has been an Annenberg Fellow, Visiting Scholar at the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Scientific Structures, and Visiting Scholar at the Critical Theory Institute at the University of California, Irvine, where he worked with Mark Poster and Frederic Jameson. As editor of Explorations in Media Ecology, he hopes to expand global participation and reach. |
Lance Strate is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. He is one of the founders of the Media Ecology Association, and served as the MEA’s first president for over a decade; he also… Read more…launched the MEA’s journal, Explorations in Media Ecology, serving as EME’s co-editor and editor for its first six years of publication, returning for another 3-year term in 2017. Additionally, he is a trustee and former executive director of the Institute of General Semantics, president of the New York Society for General Semantics, past president of the New York State Communication Association, and was the Harron Family Endowed Chair in Communication at Villanova University in 2015, and was given an honorary appointment as Chair Professor at Henan University in Kaifeng, China in 2016. He received his PhD D in Media Ecology at New York University studying with Neil Postman. He is the author of several scholarly works, including Echoes and Reflections: On Media Ecology as a Field of Study; On the Binding Biases of Time and Other Essays on General Semantics and Media Ecology; Amazing Ourselves to Death: Neil Postman’s Brave New World Revisited; 麦克卢汉与媒介生态学, an original collection of essays published in Mandarin translation under the title, McLuhan and Media Ecology; and Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition. He is also a published poet, and author of the poetry collection, Thunder at Darwin Station. Additionally, he has co-edited a number of anthologies, including two editions of Communication and Cyberspace: Social Interaction in an Electronic Environment; Critical Studies in Media Commercialism; The Legacy of McLuhan; Korzybski and…; The Medium is the Muse: Channeling Marshall McLuhan; La Comprensión de los Medios en la Era Digital: Un Nuevo Análisis de la Obra de Marshall McLuhan; and Taking Up McLuhan’s Cause: Perspectives on Media and Formal Causality. He is the recipient of the Media Ecology Association’s Walter J. Ong Award for Career Achievement in Scholarship, and the Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book, for Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition. He also received the New York State Communication Association’s John F. Wilson Fellow Award in recognition for exceptional scholarship, leadership, and dedication to the field of communication, and NYSCA’s Neil Postman Mentor Award, as well as the Eastern Communication Association’s Distinguished Research Fellow Award. Translations of his writing have appeared in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Hebrew, Mandarin, and Quenya. | Rachel Armamentos is a MA student of Public Media - Strategic Communication at Fordham University. Rachel co-authored an introductory book… Read more…Surviving the Technological Society: The Layman’s Guide to Media Ecology (ISBN 10-1732660409), which is a required Media Studies text at Wheaton College. Her paper “Technologies of Narcissism: The Printing Press to Facebook” has been accepted by the Media Ecology Association and featured in Second Nature journal. Following her MA, she plans to further her education with a PhD and conduct research to explore the nuances of digital technology on interpersonal relationships and theology. Rachel currently works as Fordham’s Public Media Graduate Assistant. | Originally from Germany, Dr. Julia M. Hildebrand is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Eckerd College, Florida. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication, Culture, and Media from Drexel University. Her research… Read more…combines media ecology with critical mobilities research and human geography. For her interdisciplinary dissertation, she explored the biases and effects of consumer drones as mobile media. She has published in such journals as Explorations in Media Ecology, Media, Culture & Society, Digital Culture & Society, and Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies. In her role as MEA At-Large Member, she brings both the keen interest in promoting, sustaining, and expanding media ecology as an intellectual tradition as well as the organizational experience for effectively contributing to the Media Ecology Association. In her three years as Executive Secretary of the International Association for the History of Traffic, Transport, and Mobility, she was not only responsible for managing memberships, journal subscriptions, website content, and elections, but also helped organize three international conferences in Italy, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. At MEA, she is assisting with updates to the association homepage and serves in the Strategic Committee for Evaluating and Acting on Association Public Relations Efforts. |
At-Large Member2020–2022
Jaqueline McLeod Rogers, Unniversity of Winnipeg Jaqueline McLeod Rogers is Professor and Chair of the Department of Rhetoric, Writing and Communications at the University of Winnipeg. She co-edited and… Read more…contributed several chapters to the collection, Finding McLuhan: The Mind, The Man, The Message (U of Regina, 2015). She co-edited a special edition of the journal Imaginations, “McLuhan and the Arts.” She has completed and is now completing revisions to a-5 chapter book, McLuhan’s Techno-Sensorium City (for Lexington). She also researches and writes about local culture and creative cities and about mothering and technology, currently co-editing a collection called Mothering/ Internet/ Kids (Demeter Press). | John Dowd is an Associate Professor in the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University. His research draws from media ecology, social theory, and philosophy of communication, and… Read more…deals with biases of technology and technological discourses in education and everyday life. He has been involved with MEA for over a decade, and has served as the program planner for the MEA affiliate division of the National Communication Association (NCA) and as Forum editor for Explorations in Media Ecology (EME). He is the author of multiple articles including Moments that Matter: Educational Entanglements and Ecologies of Action, which received the Distinguished Journal Article Award from the Philosophy of Communication Division of NCA. He is also the author of the book Educational Ecologies: Toward a Symbolic-Material Understanding of Discourse, Technology, and Education, which explores the symbolic-material biases of the DIY educational movement. In his role as At-Large Member he hopes to continue contributing to the diversity, growth, and intellectual vitality of MEA through his research, outreach, and teaching. Additionally, his long-term vision includes creating another hub for media ecology research, teaching, and community engagement at his institution, with the goal of attracting and helping to develop future media ecology scholars and practitioners. | Paolo Granata is a professor at the University of Toronto, Book and Media Studies Program at St. Michael’s College. He joined the University of Toronto in 2017 after… Read more…spending fifteen years at the University of Bologna, Italy. Nurtured by the century-old tradition of his Alma Mater, Professor Granata’s research and teaching interests lie broadly in the area of Aesthetics, Medium Theory, Ethics of Technology, Heritage Communication, Print and Visual Culture. Currently he is the Coordinator of the Book & Media Studies program, Curator of the McLuhan Salons series, Chair of the Toronto School Initiative, and Director of the Media Ethics Lab at the University of Toronto. He is also a member of the Executive Committee at the Commission for UNESCO as Chair of the Culture, Communication and Information Sectoral commission. |
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