Lance Strate
Biographic Data
| ID | 1380192 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lance Strate |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lance |
| FAMILY NAME | Strate |
| SIGNATURE | STRATE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fordham University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-9607-2664 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 41 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Media Infrastructures and the Politics of Digital Time
The message, the meaning and the medium1
The symbolic communication and language characteristic of the human species provides us with tools for thought, and its survival value is evidenced by the fact that speech appears to be universal to all human societies. The invention of writing conferred many additional advantages but led to the misconception that meaning is located in the message or text and not in the communicators. From a behaviourist approach based on Pavlov and others, meani…
The Future of Knowledge, and the Fate of Wisdom, in the Age of Information
John Henry Newman defined the university as “a place of teaching universal knowledge”, which suggests that it is also an environment for the teaching and creation of knowledge, and therefore a medium for the teaching and creation of knowledge. Based on the field of media ecology, defined by Neil Postman as “the study of media as environments”, and following Marshall McLuhan’s famous maxim that, “the medium is the message”, we can understand knowl…
La ecología de medios
La ecología de medios (Media Ecology) es el tema central del volumen 27, número 1, de la revista científica Palabra Clave, el cual comprende diez textos. En la presentación del número abordamos la ecología de los medios como metadisciplina compleja que de ninguna manera puede ser encorsetada en el imaginario de la comunicología y destacamos la extensión y amplitud de su objeto de estudio, que comprende desde las primeras tecnologías desplegadas p…
On being a student of media ecology
A revised version of a keynote address presented at the First Media Ecology Association Student Symposium held online on 3 February 2024, this article represents a reflection on the role of education within the media ecology intellectual tradition. Whether we are teaching others or teaching ourselves, we are media, mediating between past and future, ignorance and knowledge and ourselves and the world that we inhabit. Within the field of media eco…
Performing Memories
Taming Time
Deep Time, Dark Times
Ethics and the study of media as environments1
Despite the different positions that Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman took in regard to moral or ethical judgements, common ground can be found in the insistence that we first need to work towards understanding media, and only then can we take part in their ethical evaluation. Media ecology, as the study of media as environments and the study of environments as media, is also the study of the conditions we live under, that in turn condition us. …
Exercising perception
This article details two classroom exercises in perception. The Witness-Detective Exercise is relatively elaborate, and involves perception, memory and interaction. The second exercise is relatively simple, and involves listening to a word list and memory. Both exercises is demonstrate both the selective nature of perception and the fact that we can perceive and remember things that were not actually present or presented to us. The article conclu…
Harold Innis Reflects
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Doubled up
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A hard act to follow
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Openings and closings
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Marvellously eclectic
Journal-ism
The official journal of
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The real impact factor
Media and protest
In this revised version of a keynote address delivered at the Media, Protest and Social Change Symposium , sponsored by the College of Management and Academic Studies, Rishon LeZion, Israel, on 14 March 2012, the phenomenon of protest is explored based on a media ecology approach, in light of the understanding that innovations in media and technology result in cultural disturbances. Following a review of the disturbances associated with writing a…
Our media ecology journals
Our print medium
Elizabeth Eisenstein as an agent of change in the field of media ecology
This article discusses Elizabeth Eisenstein’s contributions to the field of media ecology, insofar as she provides an in-depth examination of one of the most pivotal innovations in human history, the printing press with movable type attributed to Johann Gutenberg. Whereas Marshall McLuhan emphasized changes in sense ratios, Eisenstein examines the shift resulting from individuals having more access to written works and greater ability to distribu…
Journal, volume
New beginnings
Media Ecology
Critical Studies in Media Commercialism
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
Media Ecology
The varieties of cyberspace
The term “cyberspace” is characterized by a multiplicity of meanings, and the purpose of this article is to provide a taxonomy of these “cyberspaces.” Three levels of cyberspace are identified, the first being ontology, which includes notions of cyberspace as a paraspace or nonspace, as well as the concept of cyberspacetime. The second level includes building blocks such as physical conceptual and perceptual space or virtual space. The third leve…
Ethics and the study of media as environments1
Despite the different positions that Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman took in regard to moral or ethical judgements, common ground can be found in the insistence that we first need to work towards understanding media, and only then can we take part in their ethical evaluation. Media ecology, as the study of media as environments and the study of environments as media, is also the study of the conditions we live under, that in turn condition us. …
A hard act to follow
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Openings and closings
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Marvellously eclectic
Gregory Bateson and Paul Watzlawick
Gregory Bateson and Paul Watzlawick provide an important contribution to the field of media ecology through their application of a systems view to the study of communication. Bateson emphasizes the concept of difference, and information as a difference that makes a difference. He also stresses the importance of negative feedback, and patterns that connect in regard to the systems view. Watzlawick explains the systems view via group theory and the…
The varieties of cyberspace
The term “cyberspace” is characterized by a multiplicity of meanings, and the purpose of this article is to provide a taxonomy of these “cyberspaces.” Three levels of cyberspace are identified, the first being ontology, which includes notions of cyberspace as a paraspace or nonspace, as well as the concept of cyberspacetime. The second level includes building blocks such as physical conceptual and perceptual space or virtual space. The third leve…
Beginnings
The Cell Phone as Environment
Critical Studies in Media Commercialism
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
Ong Presides
Taking Issue
Essay| December 01 2005 Taking Issue Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture, by Matthew Fuller, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005, 240 pp./$34.95 (sb) Lance Strate Lance Strate Lance Strate is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, President of the Media Ecology Association, and co-editor of the anthology The Legacy of McLuhan (2005), and Communication and Cyberspace: Social Interaction …
Representing Men
Neil Postman, Media Ecologist
This article is based on the premise that media ecology was Neil Postman's most significant and lasting achievement. Beginning with Postman's formal introduction of the term media ecology at the 58th annual convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, which was held in Milwaukee in 1968, this article discusses the coining of the term and its diffusion. Postman's definition and interpretations of media ecology are then considered, fo…
War and Peace Among Rhetoric, Grammar, and Dialectics
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Hurricane Vinny [In the Age of Show Business]
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The Robert K. Logan Effect Extending Media Ecology and the Toronto School
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The Net Effect
Reviewed by: The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet Lance Strate (bio) The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet. By Thomas Streeter. New York: New York University Press. Pp. vii+219. $22. The recent untimely death of Steve Jobs serves as a reminder of how much computers, once thought to represent the ultimate in impersonal experience and dehumanization, have come to be identified with larger-than-life personali…
Gregory Bateson and Paul Watzlawick
Gregory Bateson and Paul Watzlawick provide an important contribution to the field of media ecology through their application of a systems view to the study of communication. Bateson emphasizes the concept of difference, and information as a difference that makes a difference. He also stresses the importance of negative feedback, and patterns that connect in regard to the systems view. Watzlawick explains the systems view via group theory and the…
Amazing Ourselves to Death
Media Ecology
Media ecology is an interdisciplinary field of study defined as the study of media as environments. Media ecology scholars utilize broader definitions of the key term “media” than scholars in other fields, encompassing any type of technology, and any language, code or mode of communication, information, perception, or expression, and are interested in the different biases of different media, their effects on individuals, society, and culture, and…
McL uhan, M arshall
Marshall McLuhan brought the study of media into widespread awareness during the 1960s, and had widespread influence in numerous fields and disciplines. His aphorism, “the medium is the message,” is a call to pay attention to media and their effects, rather than the content they carry. Defining media broadly, he argued that they are extensions of the human body, especially of sense perception, and emphasized the differences between hearing and vi…
Our print medium
Elizabeth Eisenstein as an agent of change in the field of media ecology
This article discusses Elizabeth Eisenstein’s contributions to the field of media ecology, insofar as she provides an in-depth examination of one of the most pivotal innovations in human history, the printing press with movable type attributed to Johann Gutenberg. Whereas Marshall McLuhan emphasized changes in sense ratios, Eisenstein examines the shift resulting from individuals having more access to written works and greater ability to distribu…
Journal, volume
New beginnings
Media Ecology
Journal-ism
The official journal of
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The real impact factor
Media and protest
In this revised version of a keynote address delivered at the Media, Protest and Social Change Symposium , sponsored by the College of Management and Academic Studies, Rishon LeZion, Israel, on 14 March 2012, the phenomenon of protest is explored based on a media ecology approach, in light of the understanding that innovations in media and technology result in cultural disturbances. Following a review of the disturbances associated with writing a…
Sociology (18 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Art (11 works) · Media studies (11 works) · Media, Communication, and Education (11 works) · Biology (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Ecology (8 works)