[Air-l] Media Ecology Association Awards

[Ulla Bunz]

Might be of interest to some of us. ulla



Date: Fri 10/4/02
From: Lance Strate STRATE at FORDHAM.EDU

Call for Nominations for the 2003 Media Ecology Association Awards

The Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media
Ecology
Open to books published in 2000 or later on any topic related to media
ecology. Entry requirements: Letter of nomination or self-nomination and
five copies. Entrants may request simultaneous consideration for the
Susanne K. Langer Award, the Lewis Mumford Award, or the Dorothy Lee Award.


The Walter Benjamin Award for Outstanding Article in the Field of Media
Ecology
Open to articles, essays, reviews, and book chapters published in 2000 or
later on any topic related to media ecology. Entry requirements: Letter of
nomination or self-nomination and five copies. Entrants may request
simultaneous consideration for the Susanne K. Langer Award, the Lewis
Mumford Award, or the Dorothy Lee Award.


The Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of
Symbolic Form
Open to books and articles published in 2000 or later that focus on the
ecology of language, semantics, semiotics, codes, symbol systems, aesthetic
form, etc. Entry requirements: Letter of nomination or self-nomination and
five copies. Entrants may request simultaneous consideration for the
Marshall McLuhan Award or the Walter Benjamin Award.


The Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of
Technics
Open to books and articles published in 2000 or later that focus on the
history and/or philosophy of technology or science; studies of specific
technologies, techniques, or media, and/or their social, cultural, and
psychological effects; analysis and criticism of the
technological/information society. Entry requirements: Letter of nomination
or self-nomination and five copies. Entrants may request simultaneous
consideration for the Marshall McLuhan Award or the Walter Benjamin Award.


The Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture
Open to books and articles published in 2000 or later that focus on the
ethnographic or intercultural analysis of communication, perception,
cognition, consciousness, media, technology; material culture, and/or the
natural environment. Entry requirements: Letter of nomination or
self-nomination and five copies. Entrants may request simultaneous
consideration for the Marshall McLuhan Award or the Walter Benjamin Award.


The Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work
Open to novels, short stories, hypertexts, plays, scripts, comics, audio
recordings, motion pictures, videos, and other narrative forms, published
or released in 2000 or later, that include media ecology themes, concepts,
or insights. Entry requirements: Letter of nomination or self-nomination
and five copies.


The John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in the Field of Media Ecology
Open to works of art, media production, professional activity or other
practical applications of the media ecology approach. Entry requirements:
Letter of nomination or self-nomination and five copies of the supporting
materials.


The Harold A. Innis Award for Outstanding Thesis or Dissertation in the
Field of Media Ecology
Open to any Master's thesis or doctoral dissertation completed for a degree
granted in 2000 or later on any topic related to media ecology. Entry
requirements: Letter of nomination or self-nomination and five copies.


The Louis Forsdale Award for Outstanding Educator in the Field of Media
Ecology
Open to any instructor on any educational level. Entry requirements: Letter
of nomination or self-nomination and five copies of supporting materials.


The Jacques Ellul Award for Outstanding Media Ecology Activism
Open to any individual engaged in political activism whose work is informed
by the media ecology perspective. Entry requirements: Letter of nomination
or self-nomination and five copies of supporting materials.


Send all entries by December 1st, 2002 to:
Lance Strate, President, Media Ecology Association

Department of Communication and Media Studies

Fordham University

Bronx, New York 10458

For more information, see the MEA Web site at www.media-ecology.org
or contact Lance Strate at Strate at Fordham.edu or (718) 817-4864.