The Media Ecology Association is pleased to share the list of our 2025 award recipients:
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