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Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition

Lance Strate

Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition provides a long-awaited and much anticipated introduction to media ecology, a field of inquiry defined as the study of media as environments.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
  • Publish Date: Jul 4th, 2017
  • Pages: 258
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.90in - 6.00in - 0.70in - 0.85lb
  • EAN: 9781433131219
  • Categories: • Business Aspects• Anthropology - Cultural & Social• Media Studies

About the Author

Lance Strate is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University and Villanova University's 2015 Harron Family Chair in Communication. He is President of the New York Society for General Semantics, Trustee and former Executive Director of the Institute of General Semantics, Past President of the New York State Communication Association, and a founder and Past President of the Media Ecology Association. Dr. Strate is the author of Echoes and Reflections, On the Binding Biases of Time, Amazing Ourselves to Death: Neil Postman's Brave New World Revisited, and Thunder at Darwin Station. He is a recipient of the MEA's Walter Ong Award for Career Achievement in Scholarship.

Praise for this book

"With characteristic passion and soulfulness, Lance Strate embarks on a metatask: to synthesize thinking about 'life, the universe and everything' through the lens of media ecology. In the process, he locates media ecology as the dynamic shift between figure and ground and as the basis for 'understanding the human condition.' Writing with an almost disarming ease that belies the complexity of the ideas he communicates, Strate brilliantly and reflexively mediates media ecology itself, bringing clarity to the Kekulé-like conundrums of an immense and increasingly relevant field. Anyone who thoughtfully enters and engages the environment of Strate's book will be rewarded with moments of profound clarity, connecting ideas typically viewed as disparate or oppositional into patterns of deep understanding about media ecology-and about the process of living."-Julianne H. Newton, Professor of Visual Communication, University of Oregon
"Lance Strate's synthetic thinking in Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition opens up media ecology, allowing the reader to see how, as a field of inquiry, it applies to everything from language, media, and philosophy to our very understanding of what it means to be human living in a dynamic environment. Along the way Strate shows how media ecology connects with all the major approaches to communication study."-Paul Soukup, Professor and Chair, Department of Communication, Santa Clara University
"Lance Strate asks big questions-and provides a myriad of perceptive answers. This book is at once playful, poetic, and precise. The clear writing about complex ideas is a pleasure to read and offers many gifts of understanding."-Joshua Meyrowitz, University of New Hampshire