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Lance A.
Strate. Professor of Communication and Media Studies and
Associate Chair for Graduate Studies. B.S., Cornell
University; M.A., Queens College, City University of New York, Ph.D. New York
University. Graduate
Program in Public Communication, Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences Graduate
Program in Humanities and Sciences, Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences
Fordham
University
strate@fordham.edu
(718) 817-4864
(718) 817-4868
Media Ecology Communication
Theory Communication
and Technology Orality and
Literacy Symbols and
Semantics Popular Culture Science Fiction
Biography:
One of the founders of the Media Ecology Association (launched at
Fordham University on September 4, 1998), Lance Strate and has served as the
organization's President since its inception. He is also a Past President of the New York State Communication Association. He is active in a number of other
organizations, including serving on the National Advisory Board of the Walter
Ong Center at Saint Louis University, a Review Committee Member for the Carl
Couch Center's James W. Carey Award, and a member of the editorial board of
several journals, including The Journal of Applied Communication Research, Qualitative Research
Reports, and Razón
y Palabra. Among the honors he has received is
the New York State Communication Association's John F. Wilson Fellow Award in recognition for exceptional
scholarship, leadership, and dedication to the field of communication; the
June 2003 Book of the Month Award from the Resource Center for Cyberculture
Studies for the anthology he co-edited, Communication and Cyberspace: Social Interaction in an Electronic
Environment
(2nd edition); and the Proclamation by Mayor Wellington E. Webb "that
February 15, 2002 be known as Dr. Lance Strate Day in the City and County of
Denver" in honor of the keynote address he delivered at the 2002
Convention of the Rocky Mountain Communication Association. Lance Strate has served as
Chair of the Department of Communication and Media Studies, Associate Chair
for Undergraduate Studies at Rose Hill,, and is currently the Associate Chair
for Graduate Studies and Director of the MA Program in Public Communication,
as well as a member of the Board of Mentors for the interdisciplinary MA
Program in Humanities and Sciences.
He has organized a number of events at Fordham University, including the
1998 Legacy of McLuhan Symposium, and the 2006 World in Quandaries Symposium. He is also active in community
affairs. As the parent of an
autistic child, he is involved in autism advocacy, and serves as an advisor
for MOSAIC, a northern New Jersey support group for parents of autistic
children. He is also associated
with the Lower Manhattan Public Health Consortium, and is a member of the
Board of Trustees for Congregation Adas Emuno in Leonia, New Jersey. Go
to Inside Fordham Profile of Lance
Strate Current
Interests and Research: Lance
Strate maintains an active research program that includes investigations into
technological innovation and sociocultural change. Areas of particular interest include the relationship
between media and conceptions of space, time, self and consciousness,
religion, and culture. Read Lance Strate's Blog Time Passing Recent Publications: Books in Print: ·
Lance
Strate. Echoes and Reflections:
On Media Ecology as a Field of Study. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2006. ·
Lance
Strate and Edward Wachtel (Eds.). The Legacy of McLuhan. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2005. ·
Lance
Strate, Ron Jacobson, and Stephanie Gibson (Eds.). Communication and Cyberspace: Social Interaction in an Electronic Environment (2nd ed.). Cresskill,
NJ: Hampton Press, 2003. ·
Robin
Andersen and Lance Strate (Eds.). Critical Studies in Media Commercialism. London:
Oxford University Press, 2000. ·
Neil
Postman, Christine Nystrom, Lance Strate, and Charles Weingartner. Myths,
Men, and Beer: An Analysis of
Beer Commercials on Broadcast Television.
Falls Church, VA:
American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety, 1987.
·
"The
Medium is the Memory."
In Old Messengers, New Media:
The Legacy of Innis and McLuhan
[online virtual exhibition on the Library and Archives Canada website]. ·
"Understanding A Man in Time: James W. Carey and the Media Ecology
Intellectual Tradition." Critical Studies in Media Communication, 24:2, 2007, pp. 177-180. ·
"The Judaic Roots of Neil
Postman's Cultural Commentary." Journal of Media and Religion [special issue on cultural biography], 5:3, 2006, pp.
189-208. ·
A Media Ecology Review (monograph published as a special issue of Communication
Research Trends, 23:2, pp. 3-48), 2004. ·
"Neil Postman, Defender of the Word." ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, 60:4, 2003, pp. 341-350. ·
"The Cell Phone as Environment." Explorations in Media Ecology, 2:1, 2003, pp. 19-24. ·
"Something From Nothing: Seeking a Sense of Self." ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, 60:1, 2003, pp. 4-21. ·
"No(rth Jersey)
Sense of Place: The Cultural Geography (and Media Ecology) of The Sopranos." In This Thing of Ours: Investigating the Sopranos, David Lavery, Ed.
London: Wallflower Press
and New York: Columbia
University Press, 2002, pp. 285-314. ·
"Media
Ecology as a Scholarly Activity." Proceedings of the Media Ecology
Association 3, 2002, pp. 1-15. ·
"The Medium of Baseball." In Take Me Out to the Ball
Game: Communicating Baseball, Gary
Gumpert and Susan Drucker, Eds. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002, pp. 37-70. ·
"Educator's
Resource Guide for McLuhan's Wake." Included with McLuhan's Wake [video], National Film Board of Canada, 2002. ·
"The
Flight of MinErvA's Owl." Proceedings of the Media Ecology
Association 2, 2001, pp. 1-7. ·
"The Conception of Perfection: An Essay Concerning Gumpert's Media
Aesthetics." Speech Communication Annual, 15, 2001, pp. 96-113. ·
"Lewis Mumford and the Ecology of Technics"
(coauthored by Casey Man Kong Lum).
New Jersey Journal of Communication, 8:1, 2000 [Special
Issue on Media Ecology], pp.56-78 ·
"The
Ecology of Association."
Proceedings of the Media Ecology Association 1,
2000, pp. 1-9. ·
"Narcissism and Echolalia: Sense and the Struggle for the
Self." Speech
Communication Annual, 14, 2000, pp.
14-62. ·
"The Varieties of Cyberspace: Problems in Definition and
Delimitation." Western
Journal of Communication, 63:3, 1999, pp. 382-412. ·
"Media
Transcendence." Marshall
McLuhan Studies, 3 [online] 1998. ·
"An
Overview of Communication Analysis." Antenna, 10:2, May
1998, pp. 4-5, 8. ·
"Hypermedia, Space, and
Dimensionality." Readerly/Writerly
Texts: Essays on Literature,
Literary/Textual Criticism, and Pedagogy,
3:2, 1996, pp. 167-184. ·
"The Faces of a Thousand Heroes: The Impact of Visual Communication
Technologies on the Culture Hero." The New Jersey Journal of
Communication, 3:1, 1995, pp.26-39 ·
"Heroes:
A Communication Perspective." In American Heroes in a Media Age, Susan
Drucker and Robert Cathcart, Eds.
Cresskill, NJ: Hampton
Press, 1994, pp. 15-23. ·
"Post(modern)man, or Neil Postman as a
Postmodernist." ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, 51:2, 1994, pp. 159-170. ·
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit and the Reinvention of Myth." In A Rhetorical Analysis of
Popular American Film, Marc T. Newman, Ed. Dubuque, IA:
Kendall/Hunt, 1993, pp.44-72. ·
"Beer Commercials: A Manual on Masculinity." In Men, Masculinity, and the Media, Steve
Craig, Ed. Newbury Park,
CA: Sage, 1992, pp. 78-92. ·
"The Cultural Meaning of Beer
Commercials." In Advances
in Consumer Research, 18, Rebecca H. Holman and Michael R. Solomon,
Eds. Provo, UT: Association for Consumer Research,
1991, pp. 115-119. ·
"Time-Binding in Oral Cultures." ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, 43:3, 1986, pp. 234-246. ·
"Heroes, Fame, and the Media." ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, 42:1, 1985, pp. 47-53. ·
"Media and the Sense of Smell." In Inter/Media, Interpersonal
Communication in a Media World (2nd ed.),
Gary Gumpert and Robert Cathcart, Eds.
New York: Oxford University
Press, 1982, pp. 400-411. Selected Presentations: ·
Colloquium on
"Marhshall McLuhan's Media Ecology and Communication Studies"
sponsored by the Academic Vice-President's Office, Naropa University,
Boulder, CO, March 15, 2007. ·
"Eight Bits About
Digital Culture." Address
presented at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, March 12, 2007. ·
"Confessions of a Media Ecologist, Or, How Does
the Medium Become the Message? Let
Me Count the Ways." Address presented to the New York Society for
General Semantics at the Albert Ellis Institute, New York City, Dec. 7, 2006. ·
Seminar on
"Communication Clarity and Critical Thinking: Understanding the Meaning of Meaning and Avoiding the
Demeaning of Meaning" for the Judicial Clerks and Mediators of the U. S.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, New York City, Nov. 1, 2006. ·
"On the City as Medium
and its Implications for the Digital Age." Featured presentation at the Exploring the Digital
City: Space Culture Politics Seminar, Geddes Institute for Urban Research, University
of Dundee, Scotland, March 31, 2006. ·
"Eight Bits About
Digital Communication."
Keynote Address presented at V Bienal Iberoamericana de la
Communicación, Technológico de
Monterrey, Campus Estado de México, Mexico City, Sept. 20-22, 2005. ·
"The Future of
Consciousness." Plenary
address presented at the Envisioning the Emerging Future Colloquium, Institute of General Semantics, American
Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, Apr. 23, 2005. ·
"Living in Sopranoland: The Media Ecology of North
Jersey." A Plenary address
presented the Symposium on "Deconstructing The Sopranos: Representations of Crime, Class, and
Culture," Montclair State University, Apr. 22, 2004. ·
"Understanding Media Ecology." Address presented at Technológico de
Monterrey, Campus Estado de México, Mexico City, Jan. 15, 2004. ·
"Something from Nothing: Seeking a Sense of Self." Address presented to the New York
Society for General Semantics at the Albert Ellis Institute, New York City,
Dec. 18, 2003. ·
"Digital Dialectics, Electronic Ecologies." Keynote Address, presented at the
Finnish Conference for Communication Research of the Finnish University
Network for Communication Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä,
Finland, October 18-19, 2002. ·
"Human Communication and Human Technology: Coming of Age in the Twenty-First
Century." Keynote Address,
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Communication
Association, University of Denver, Denver, CO, Feb. 15-16, 2002. ·
"Narcissism and Echolalia: Sense and the Struggle for the
Self." John F. Wilson
Fellow Address, presented at the 57th Annual Convention of the New York State
Communication Association, Monticello, NY, Oct. 8-10, 1999. ·
"McLuhan and 'Medium' as God-Term." Plenary address presented at the New
Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York, Feb. 23, 1999. ·
"Beer Commercials, Masculinity, and Drunk
Driving: A Dysfunctional
Relationship." Plenary
address presented at the Drinking and Driving Prevention Symposium, Ontario, CA, Nov. 15-17, 1992. ·
"Television Commercials and Social
Learning: Myths, Men, and
Beer." Keynote Address presented
at the Northeast Office for Substance Abuse Prevention Regional Communication
Seminar, Portland, ME, May 23, 1988. ·
"Myths, Men, and Beer: The Cultural Context of Drinking and Driving." Keynote Address presented at the Conference
on DUI: New Perspectives on
Prevention and Treatment, Newark, DE,
Jan. 27, 1988. |
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