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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="color:#212121">**Apologies for Crossposting**<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:13.8pt"><b><span style="color:#212121">Call for Papers</span></b><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:13.8pt"><b><span style="color:#212121"> The Twenty-Seventh Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association </span></b><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:13.8pt"><b><span style="color:#212121">The University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada </span></b><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:13.8pt"><b><span style="color:#212121"> </span></b><span style="color:#212121">June 25 to 28, 2026 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:13.8pt"><b><span style="color:#212121"> Crossing[out] Borders in our Global Village</span></b><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:13.8pt"><span style="color:#212121">The annual meeting of the Media Ecology Association provides</span><span style="color:#222222;background:white"> an opportunity for scholars, artists, professionals,
educators, and students to exchange experiences and ideas in a friendly environment. We invite proposals for papers and panels related to the field of media ecology.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:13.8pt"><span style="color:#212121">Our conference theme — crossing[out] borders in our global village — is offered as a generative and open cue. Anyone attending the conference will have crossed some
sort of border, and many of us do research that considers the power of relationality and purpose of differentiating. Figuratively, many of us cross borders by blending disciplinary interests or research methods. We chose our theme to suggest that all avenues
are open, all topics welcome for review. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:13.8pt"><span style="color:#212121">We look forward to hosting you and convening a vibrant MEA Conference in the hometown of Marshall McLuhan, a founding figure of the MEA. There will be an opportunity
for you to join a pre-conference tour on June 24 (hosted by The Marshall McLuhan Initiative) to visit sites connected to McLuhan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:13.8pt"><span style="color:#212121">Marshall McLuhan often spoke of many ways borders were falling, of our world as increasingly "without walls" (in a reapplication of Andre Gide's original coining).
Playing with the multiple divisions cutting through the country, he referred to Canada as “a borderline case.” He saw danger in a wide-open global village but would likely have considered current calls for actual walls and strengthening of national borders
as "rear view mirror thinking": ineffective, change-resistant thinking. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:13.8pt"><span style="color:#212121">Submit paper and session proposals (no longer than 250 words) by November 1, 2025 to <a href="mailto:MEA2026@uwinnipeg.ca" title="mailto:MEA2026@uwinnipeg.ca"><span style="color:#96607D">MEA2026@uwinnipeg.ca</span></a>.
Include title, abstract and contact information for each participant. A maximum of two submissions per author will be accepted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;background:white"><i><span style="color:#212121">Submission guidelines for manuscripts for authors who wish to be considered for the <b>Top Paper</b> or the <b>Linda Elson Top Student Paper</b> award:</span></i><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">1. Manuscripts should be 4,000–6,000 words (approximately 15 to 25 double-spaced pages)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">2. Include a cover page with your institutional affiliation and other contact information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;background:white"><span style="color:#212121">3. Include an abstract (maximum 150 words).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;background:white"><span style="color:#212121">4. Submit abstract for November 1, 2025; submit full paper January 1, 2026 indicate the award you are seeking.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:13.8pt"><span style="color:#212121">Registration details and information about awards (including student travel awards) are forthcoming.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:13.8pt"><span style="color:#212121">Hotels and housing options will be announced closer to the convention.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span style="color:#212121">For more information, contact convention organizer Jaqueline McLeod Rogers at <a href="mailto:j.mcleod-rogers@uwinnipeg.ca">j.mcleod-rogers@uwinnipeg.ca</a>. She and members of the <b>Department
of Rhetoric, Writing and Communications</b> are hosting the convention. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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the Red River Métis, in Wiiniibak, Manido Abi. We acknowledge these are the ancestral lands of the Anishinaabeg, Anisininew, Ininiwak/Nehethowuk, Oceti Sakowin/Dakota Oyate, and Michif (Métis) Peoples, that our water is sourced from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation
in Treaty Three Territory, and that most of our hydro-electricity comes from Treaty Five Territory in northern Manitoba.</span></i></p>
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