How to Join

Annual dues for 2008 are as follows:

Membership Category	Fee
Student	US$35
Regular	US$80
Sustaining (Regular membership plus convention registration)	US$120
Institutional	US$160

• Membership extends from January 1 through December 31 annually.

If you wish to submit your membership via check and postal mail, you may download a PDF version of the membership form. You can also download a MS Word version.

Why Join MEA?

If you are interested in

• the nature, history, and impact of technology, media, and symbol systems;
• the study of communication, consciousness, and culture;
• technological determinism, media evolution, information and cybernetics;
• the study of media codes, media literacy, and media education;
• orality, literacy, secondary orality, and postliteracy;
• oral, scribal, typographic, and electronic cultures;
• the graphic revolution and image culture;
• scholars such as Marshall McLuhan, Harold Innis, Walter Ong, Neil Postman, Lewis Mumford, and Jacques Ellul;

then you should be a member of the Media Ecology Association.

Membership Benefits

• forums for professional exchange among members—including our active electronic discussion list, where you can “talk” on line with leading media ecology scholars and practitioners around the world
• venues for showcasing your scholarly work, including our own annual convention as well as featured panels at the conventions of the National Communication Association, Eastern Communication Association, New York State Communication Association, and International Communication Association (at the reduced ICA-member registration rate).
• resources for keeping abreast of new developments, including our own newsletter In Medias Res
• opportunities to contribute professional service and help to shape the direction this new field of media ecology will take
• Membership dues include annual subscription to our print journal, Explorations in Media Ecology {EME}, published quarterly.

You don’t have to be an academic to join. Although many of our members are academics or researchers, our membership includes a doctor, lawyer, minister, and city councilor, along with professional television producers and designers and quite a few people working in the Internet arena.

Convention fees for 2008 are as follows:

• Regular Member Convention Pre-registration US$40
• Regular Member Convention Onsite Registration US$50
• Student Member Convention Registration US$30
• Non-member Convention Registration US$80
• Student Non-member Convention Registration US$35