The Media Ecology Association's 2023 Award recipients were announced at our annual convention this past June:
The Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology to
Laura Trujillo Liñan for Formal Cause in Marshall McLuhan's Thinking: An Aristotelian Perspective
The Walter Benjamin Award for Outstanding Article in the Field of Media Ecology to
Austin Hestdalen for "The Kind of Problem a Smart City Is"
The Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction to
Stephanie Bennett for Silence, Civility, and Sanity: Hope for Humanity in a Digital Age
and
Eva Berger for Context Blindness: Digital Technology and the Next Stage of Human Evolution
The Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form to
Adeena Karasick for Massaging the Medium: Seven Pechakuchas
The Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture to
Andrew Conte for Death of the Daily News: How Citizen Gatekeepers Can Save Local Journalism
The Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics to
Paul Roquet for The Immersive Enclosure: Virtual Reality in Japan
The Harold A. Innis Award for Outstanding Thesis or Dissertation in the Field of Media Ecology to
Graeme Flett for Media Ecology, Congregational Life, and Christian Identity
The Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work to
Paul Levinson for "It's Real Life (short story and radio play)
The John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in the Field of Media Ecology to
Jenna Ng and Oliver Tomkins for The New Virtuality: A Creative Website on Disappearing Media Boundaries (online multimedia work
https://thenewvirtuality.com/)
The Louis Forsdale Award for Outstanding Educator in the Field of Media Ecology to
Erik Garrett
The Jacques Ellul Award for Outstanding Media Ecology Activism to
Michelle Shocked
The James W. Carey Award for Outstanding Media Ecology Journalism to
Farhad Manjoo
The Christine L. Nystrom Award for Career Achievement in Service to the Field of Media Ecology to
Michael Plugh
The Edmund S. Carpenter Award for Career Achievement in Editing in the Field of Media Ecology to
Carolyn Wiebe and Susan Maushart
The Walter J. Ong Award for Career Achievement in Scholarship to
Michael S. Schudson
The Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity to
Richard Sennett