MEA recently announced the winners of the 2007 (for year 2006) MEA Awards.
The Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book
in the Field of Media Ecology
Peter K. Fallon for Printing, Literacy, and Education in Eighteenth Century Ireland: Why the Irish Speak English
The Walter Benjamin Award for Outstanding Article
in the Field of Media Ecology
Corey Anton for "Playing with Bateson: Denotation, Logical Types,
and Analog and Digital Communication"
The Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship
in the Ecology of Social Interaction
Richard A. Lanham for The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information
The Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship
in the Ecology of Symbolic Form
Martin H. Levinson for Sensible Thinking for Turbulent Times
The Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship
in the Ecology of Culture
David MacDougall for The Corporeal Image: Film, Ethnography, and the Senses
The Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship
in the Ecology of Technics
Timothy C. Campbell for Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi
and to
Fred Turner for From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
The Harold A. Innis Award for Outstanding Thesis or Dissertation in the Field of Media Ecology
Adriana Braga for Feminilidade Mediada por Computador: Interação Social no Circuito-Blogue [Computer-Mediated Femininity: Social Interaction on the Blog Circuit]
The Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work
Janna Levin for A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
The John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis
in the Field of Media Ecology
Michael Wesch for The Machine is Us/ing Us (video on YouTube.com)
The Louis Forsdale Award for Outstanding Educator
in the Field of Media Ecology
Octavio Islas
The Jacques Ellul Award for
Outstanding Media Ecology Activism
Donna Flayhan
The James W. Carey Award for
Outstanding Media Ecology Journalism
Philip Marchand
The Walter J. Ong Award for
Career Achievement in Scholarship
Jay David Bolter
The Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement
in Public Intellectual Activity
Eric McLuhan