The Media Ecology Association (MEA) granted an award to another PUP author this year! Viktor Mayer-Schönberger’s Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age was named the 2010 winner of the Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the field of media ecology. Congratulations Viktor!

The Marshall McLuhan Award has been given out annually since 2000, and it is open to books “on any topic related to media ecology.” What is media ecology, you ask?

In 1970, author and cultural critic Neil Postman wrote:

Media ecology looks into the matter of how media of communication affect human perception, understanding, feeling, and value; and how our interaction with media facilitates or impedes our chances of survival. The word ecology implies the study of environments: their structure, content, and impact on people.

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