Hi everyone! After a quick post-convention break, I am back and pleased to announce to the listserv this years winners of the MEA Awards. The Awards were given out at this years convention in Grand Rapids Michigan two weeks ago.
Congratulations to all the well deserved award winners for 2013, and please check the website for the call for papers for the 2014 Awards. Please contact me off list with any questions.
Brian Cogan
MEA Awards Coordinator
The 2013 MEA Awards
The *Marshall McLuhan Award *for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology* to* *John Miles Foley* for *Oral Tradition and the Internet: Pathways of the Mind*
The *Walter Benjamin Award *for Outstanding Article in the Field of Media Ecology* to* *Mara Mills* for “Hearing Aids and the History of Electronics Miniaturization”
The *Erving Goffman Award* for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction to
*Valerie V. Peterson* for Sex, Ethics and Communication: A Humanist approach to Conversations on Intimacy
The *Susanne K. Langer Award *for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form to *David Bellos* for *Is that a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything*
The *Dorothy Lee Award* for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture to *Peter Lunefeld* for *The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as a Culture Machine*
The *Lewis Mumford Award *for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics to *Janet Sternberg* for* **Misbehavior in Cyber Place: The Regulation of Online Conduct in Virtual Communities on the Internet*
The *Harold A. Innis Award *for Outstanding Thesis or Dissertation in the Field of Media Ecology to *Yoni Van Dan Eede* for *Amor* *Technologiae: Marshall McLuhan as a Philosopher of Technology*
The *Mary Shelley Award* for Outstanding Fictional Work to *Robin Sloan* for *Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore *
The *John Culkin Award *for Outstanding Praxis in the Field of Media Ecology to
*Laureano Ralon* for the Figure/Ground Communication Website
The *Louis Forsdale Award *for Outstanding Educator in the Field of Media Ecology to Clifford Christians
The *Jacques Ellul Award *for Outstanding Media Ecology Activism to *Aaron Swartz*
The *James W. Carey* *Award *for Outstanding Media Ecology Journalism to *David Pogue *
The *Christine L. Nystrom Award *for Career Achievement in Service to the Field of Media Ecology to *Thomas Gencarelli*
The *Edmund S. Carpenter Award *for Career Achievement in Editing in the Field of Media Ecology to *Gary Gumpert*
The *Walter J. Ong Award *for Career Achievement in Scholarship to *Lance Strate*
The *Neil Postman Award *for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity to *Morris Berman*
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