UWinnipeg’s Dr. Jason Hannan’s book Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media has earned the 2024 Erving Goffman Award for outstanding scholarship in the ecology of social interaction from the Media Ecology Association. He’s keeping good company with past winners that include leading scholars such as danah boyd, Kenneth Gergen, and Gary T. Marx.
It’s a huge honour to receive this year’s Erving Goffman Award from the Media Ecology Association.
Dr. Jason Hannan
Dr. Hannan’s book delves into trolling, politics, and social media. He argues that trolling has gone mainstream, eroding our public culture and changing the rules of democratic politics.
Media ecology is the study of media environments, the idea that technology and techniques, modes of information and codes of communication play a leading role in human affairs, and one of the first academic interests since Dr. Hannan’s undergraduate days.
“As I suggest in my book, media ecology has become more relevant than ever in our volatile political times,” said Dr. Hannan. “It’s a huge honour to receive this year’s Erving Goffman Award from the Media Ecology Association.”
The cover of Dr. Hannan’s book.
The Media Ecology Association (MEA) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting the study, research, criticism, and application of media ecology in educational, industry, political, civic, social, cultural, and artistic contexts, and the open exchange of ideas, information, and research among the association’s members and the larger community.
Dr. Jason Hannan is professor in UWinnipeg’s Department of Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications. His work explores the politics of truth and reality in the digital age. His current book project is Reactionary Speech: The Conservative Denial of Reality.
