Tuesday, August 03, 2004

The 2004 Media Ecology Association Awards

(posted by Busa Aat on the MediaSquatters listserv)

THE 2004 MEDIA ECOLOGY ASSOCIATION AWARDS

The Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology to Francis Fukuyama for _Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution_.

The Walter Benjamin Award for Outstanding Article in the Field of Media Ecology to Susan B. Barnes for "The Development of Graphical User Interfaces and Their Influence on the Future of Human-Computer Interaction."

The Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction to Corey Anton for _Selfhood and Authenticity_.

The Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form to Susan Sontag for _Regarding the Pain of Others_.

The Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture to Thomas L. Friedman for _Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11_.

The Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics to Scott Eastham for _Biotech Time-Bomb: How Genetic Engineering Could Irreversibly Change Our World_.

The Harold A. Innis Award for Outstanding Thesis or Dissertation in the Field of Media Ecology to Brian Cogan for _Wired Words: An Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of the Personal Computer and the Internet_.

The Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work to William Gibson for _Pattern Recognition_.

The John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in the Field of Media Ecology to John Bishop and Harald Prins for _Oh, What a Blow that Phantom Gave Me!_ (documentary film on DVD)

The Louis Forsdale Award for Outstanding Educator in the Field of Media Ecology to Gary Gumpert

The Jacques Ellul Award for Outstanding Media Ecology Activism to Reverend Everett C. Parker

The Walter J. Ong Award for Career Achievement in Scholarship to Denise Schmandt-Besserat

The Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity to Douglas Rushkoff

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