[Air-l] CFP Media Ecology Association - deadline Jan. 15

[Steffasong at aol.com]

Hello AIR-I Friends and Colleagues,
 
Below please find the final call for papers for the Seventh Annual  
Convention of the Media Ecology Association.  The conference will take  place on June 
8th - 11th at Boston College.  Please spread the word and  share this CFP with 
your various departments and schools.  The deadline for  submissions is 
January 15th.
 
Cheers!
Stephanie Bennett
 
 
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Final Call for Papers

The Seventh Annual Convention of the
Media  Ecology Association

Prologues to Exploration

June 8­,  2006

Boston College
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

Featured  Speakers:

Howard Rheingold, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, Terence P. Moran,  Robert K.
Logan, and more to come!

Keynote Address:

Denise  Schmandt-Besserat

Revised Submission Deadline: January 15, 2006

We  invite submission of papers, proposals, panels of papers,  roundtables,
discussion panels, workshops, films, multimedia presentations,  and
performances relating to all aspects of media ecology, encompassing  primary
orality, the development of literacy, the change from script to  print, the
electronics revolution, and the impacts of continuing  technological change.
How have evolving technologies transformed both the  cognitive and physical
environments in which we live, work, learn, play, and  relate? What are the
prospects for the future?

Completed papers are  eligible for the Top Paper Award or the Linda Elson
Scholar Award for the Top  Student Paper. Please indicate your wish to
compete for either award on a  separable title page with full contact
information, and no identifying  information in the text pages. Competing
papers should be formatted in  accordance with the 5th edition of the
Publication Manual of the American  Psychological Association. Please send
inquiries and electronic copies of  papers and proposals to
james_morrison at emerson.edu. For more information  visit our Web site  at
http://www.media-ecology.org.

Co-coordinators:

Donald A.  Fishman
Department of Communication
Boston College
140 Commonwealth  Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA  02467
617-552-4285
donald.fishman.1 at bc.edu

James C. Morrison
Department of Organizational and  Political Communication
Emerson College
120 Boylston Street
Boston, MA  02116-4624
617-824-8723
james_morrison at emerson.edu




Stephanie Bennett



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