Professor of Media Katherine Fry earned the Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology for her book Dynamic Media Environments: Expanding the Scope of Media Literacy. The award was given in June 2024 by the Media Ecology Association at its annual conference. Fry teaches in the Department of Television, Radio & Emerging Media in the School of Visual, Media and Performing Arts. The book, published in 2023, serves as an accessible introduction to understanding the current media environment and culture and as an indispensable guide to dynamic media literacy in the digital environment. Lance Strate, professor of communication and media studies at Fordham University, said of the book: “In Dynamic Media Environments, Katherine G. Fry, one of our leading media literacy scholars and practitioners, provides an important new approach to media education. By contextualizing media literacy through a synthesis with media ecology, the study of media as environments, she delivers a much-needed and long-awaited breakthrough, one that is nothing short of revolutionary. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned with understanding media, and especially anyone concerned with teaching about media in the 21st century.” Fry also provided expertise on the role of media in American culture in the 1950s for a recent episode of a Japanese NHK Television (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) series on media and popular culture.
