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 ========= 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@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@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@emerson.edu Stephanie Bennett Definition: Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.