Dr. Strate was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on August 18th, 2010 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series: http://www.figureground.ca/interviews/
Lance A. Strate is an American Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, one of the founders of the Media Ecology Association and the MEA’s first president (1998-2009), a past President of the New York State Communication Association, and currently Executive Director of the Institute of General Semantics. His scholarship has focused on the development of media ecology as a field of inquiry, with special attention to the work of Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong, and Neil Postman; on the historical relationship between modes of communication and sociocultural phenomena such as heroes, religion, nationalism, the city, the self, and consciousness; on the impact of new technologies and digital media including online communications and mobile telephony; on media history and futurism; on language and symbolic communication as it relates to media and technology; on communication and autism; on popular culture phenomena, including television, film, baseball, masculinity and alcohol, the sense of smell, and science fiction and fantasy. He has served as editor of several journals: the General Semantics Bulletin, the Speech Communication Annual, and Explorations in Media Ecology (which he founded), and as supervisory editor of the media ecology book series published by Hampton Press. He is co-editor of several anthologies, including Communication and Cyberspace, and The Legacy of McLuhan, and the author of over 100 articles and book chapters, and of Echoes and Reflections: On Media Ecology as a Field of Study (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2006). He also blogs, writes poetry, and is a partner in NeoPoiesis Press.
