Dr. Lum was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on February 16th, 2011 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series: http://www.figureground.ca/interviews
Casey Man Kong Lum is Professor and Director of the M. A. in Professional Communication Program in the Department of Communication at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey, USA. He was one of the five founders of the Media Ecology Association. As the MEA’s founding vice president, Casey spearheaded the organization’s institutional development and was instrumental in advocating for and setting up MEA’s institutional affiliation status with the National Communication Association and the International Communication Association that gave the MEA two of the most visible international platforms for promoting media ecology scholarship (e.g., media ecology-themed panels at the two international associations’ respective annual conventions). He has been in various other leadership roles in the communication discipline, such as formerly a president of the Association for Chinese Communication Studies, chair of NCA’s International and Intercultural Communication Division, and chair of NCA’s Asian Pacific American Caucus, etc. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Urban Communication Foundation. The author-editor of Perspectives on Culture, Technology, and Communication: The Media Ecology Tradition, Casey is also the author of In Search of a Voice: Karaoke and the Construction of Identity in Chinese America, as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters on media ecology, cultural communication, and urban communication. In the past few years he has been researching the media ecology of urban food cultures. A long-time resident of New York City, Casey currently lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children.
