Lance Strate
Lance Strate "The medium is the membrane (meme-brain)!"

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52 years old
New York Metropolitan Area, New Jersey
United States



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GeneralCommunication, conversation, elaboration, observation, meditation, contemplation, deliberation, education, investigation, documentation, publication, creation, exploration, experimentation, speculation, imagination, fascination, emancipation, inspiration, illumination, exhilaration, translation, circulation, dissemination, information, siginification, explanation, interpretation, classification, relation, celebration, consideration, illustration, decoration, preparation, cultivation, generation, innovation, elevation, congregation, association, cooperation, collaboration, civilization, administration, habitation, reputation, sensation, vibration, fermentation, inhalation, aviation, gratification, animation, automation, technologization, quotation, donation, equation, vegetation, punctuation, pronunciation, abbreviation, transportation, destination, location, agitation, integration, accumulation, duration, narration, commemoration, preservation, salutation, confirmation, congratulation, commendation, coronation, affirmation, admiration, acclamation, adoration, revelation, transformation...
MusicYes, Grateful Dead, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Flo and Eddie, Jethro Tull, Talking Heads, Cold Play, The Who, Pink Floyd, Uriah Heep, Black Thorn, Joan Baez, Harry Chapin, Renaissance, Moody Blues, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Asia, Simon & Garfunkel, Todd Rundgren, Utopia, T-Rex, Whist, February, The Coasters, Grin, Elton John, Natalie Merchant, The Kinks, Angelo Badalamenti, Julee Cruise, The B-52s, Devo, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Elvis Presley, It's a Beautiful Day, Circus Maximus, Rolling Stones, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, King Crimson, Genesis, Weird Al Yankovic, and the list goes on...


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MoviesAll time favorites include 2001: A Space Odyssey, Altered States, Metropolis (restored version), Animal House (I lived it), Something About Mary, Until the End of the World, Dark City, Unbreakable, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Monty Python's Meaning of Life, And Now for Something Completely Different, The Magic Christian, Head, J-Men Forever, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, O Brother Where Art Thou, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, Star Wars (all of them, but especially the first two and the last), Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., A.I., Star Trek II, III, IV, and XIII, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Singing in the Rain, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Godfather, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, The Deer Hunter, Annie Hall, Take the Money and Run, Bananas, Zelig, Radio Days, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Silent Movie, The Conversation, Just Imagine, Shrek I & II, The Gold Rush, Modern Times, The Great Dictator, Limelight, A Day at the Races, A Night at the Opera, Horse Feathers, Duck Soup, Animal Crackers, Cocoanuts, Room Service, and the list goes on...
TelevisionBattlestar Galactica, Sopranos, 24, South Park, The Office, Heroes, Boston Legal, The Office, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Jericho, Life on Mars, Smallville, Star Trek (all of the series, especially Deep Space Nine), Seinfeld, Larry David, Twin Peaks, Get Smart, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, SCTV, Lost in Space, My Mother the Car, Captain Nice, and the list goes on...
Books

Favorite nonfiction authors: Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman, Walter Ong, Lewis Mumford, Susanne K. Langer, Jacques Ellul, Dorothy Lee, Harold Innis, Eric Havelock, Daniel Boorstin, Walter Benjamin, Edward Sapir, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Norbert Wiener, Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead, Jack Goody, Edmund Carpenter, Camille Paglia, Jay David Bolter, Joshua Meyrowitz, Paul Levinson, Doug Rushkoff, Tony Schwartz, Susan Sontag, Ivan Illich, Denise Schmandt-Besserat, Elizabeth Eisenstein, S. H. Steinberg, Niklas Luhmann, Paul Watzlawick, Erving Goffman, Kenneth Gergen, Kenneth Burke, Alfred Korzybski, Wendell Johnson, S. I. Hayakawa, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fritjof Capra, Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem, Jacob Neusner, Lawrence Kushner, Albert Einstein, Moses et al., and the list goes on...

Favorite fiction authors include J.R.R. Tolkien (#1), Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, Herman Hesse, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Frank Herbert, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Gene Wolfe, Mary Shelley, Karel Capek, Edward Bellamy, Dan Simmons, Stanislaw Lem, Madeleine L'Engle, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, J. K. Rowling, Umberto Eco, Tom Wolfe, Dom DeLillo (Fordham alum!), Marleen Barr, Andrew Postman, Chuck Wachtel, Paul Levinson, Doug Rushkoff, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, Mark Helprin, E. L. Doctorow, Harlan Ellison, Dr. Seuss, Margaret Wise Brown, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Lewis Carroll, Norton Juster, Edwin A. Abbott, Lemony Snicket, A. E. van Vogt, Orson Scott Card, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Miguel de Cervantes, and the list goes on...

Favorite poets include J.R.R. Tolkien, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Hunter, Jerry Harp, David Sobelman, Homer, Ovid, William Shakespeare, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, Emma Lazarus, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edward Lear, Julia Ward Howe, Robert Forst, W. H. Auden, Maya Angelou, and the list goes on...

Favorite comics creators include Alan Moore, Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Scott Adams, Art Spielgelman, Gardner Fox, Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller, Sergio Aragonés, Grant Morrison, Julius Schwartz, Paul Levitz, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Charles Schulz, Gary Trudeau, Burke Breathed, Bill Watterson, George Herriman, Walt Kelly, Fred Hembeck, Doug Rushkoff, and the list goes on...

My Books: Echoes and Reflections: On Media Ecology as a Field of Study... Legacy of McLuhan... Communication and Cyberspace... Critical Studies in Media Commercialism...

HeroesMarshall McLuhan, Neil Postman, Walter Ong, Lewis Mumford, Susanne Langer, Jacques Ellul, J.R.R. Tolkien, Stanley Kubrick, Charlie Chaplin, Martin Buber, Elie Wiesel, Isaac Luria, Albert Einstein, Liviu Librescu, Akiba ben Joseph, Elijah, Moses and Frodo Baggins, Spider-man, Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Tom Seaver, Art Shamsky, Ron Swoboda, Tug McGraw, Willis Reed, Larry Csonka, Humphrey Bogart, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Paul Simon, Peter Yarrow, Harry Chapin, Steve Howe, Chris Squire, Rick Wakeman, Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rodney Dangerfield, Mel Brooks, Number Six, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, John Cleese, all of the Firesign Theatre, Ian Anderson, Frankenstein from Death Race 2000, Harpo Marx, Bugs Bunny, Tobor the 8th Man, Will Robinson, Charlie Brown, Benjamin J. Grimm, and the list goes on...

     Lance Strate's Details
Status:Married
Here for:Networking
Orientation:Straight
Hometown:Kew Gardens
Body type:6' 0" / Some extra baggage
Ethnicity:White / Caucasian
Religion:Jewish
Zodiac Sign:Virgo
Smoke / Drink:No / Yes
Children:Proud parent
Education:Post grad
Occupation:Speaker, Writer, Editor, Educator, Media Ecologist

   Lance Strate's Schools
New York University
New York, NY
Graduated: 1991
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Ph.D.
Major: Media Ecology
 

1980 to 1991
Cuny Queens College
Flushing, NY
Graduated: 1981
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Media Studies
 

1978 to 1980
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Graduated: 1978
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Communication Arts
Clubs: Mummies
Greek:   Beta Theta Pi

1974 to 1978
Hillcrest Hs
Jamaica Estates, NY
Graduated: 1974
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
 

1971 to 1974

   Lance Strate's Networking
Publishing - Writer - Non-fiction
Subjects include communication, consciousness, culture, media, technology, language, symbols, film, television, computers and digital media

   Lance Strate's Companies
Fordham University
Bronx, New York US
Professor
Communication and Media Studies

Media Ecology Association
Global Village, US
President

1998 to present
Institute of General Semantics
Fort Worth, Texas US
Executive Director

March 2008 to present



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   Lance Strate's Blurbs
About me:

A Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City

Past President and Co-Founder of the Media Ecology Association

Executive Director of the Institute of General Semantics

Past President of the New York State Communication Association

Author of Echoes and Reflections: On Media Ecology as a Field of Study

Co-editor of several anthologies including Legacy of McLuhan and
Communication and Cyberspace

Supervisory Editor of the Media Ecology Book Series Published by Hampton Press

Parent of an Autistic Child and Advocate for Autism Awareness

Member of the Board of Trustees of Congregation Adas Emuno

owner of a Boston Terrier

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My Fordham faculty page: http://faculty.fordham.edu/strate/

You Can Read My Blog At: http://lancestrate.blogspot.com/

I'm on Twitter At: http://twitter.com/lancestrate

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Check out the Media Ecology Association

and stay tuned...

Who I'd like to meet:

Anyone with a good heart, and half a brain.


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The Garden of Silence

The Garden of Silence



Dec 12 2009 1:23 PM



Happy Chanoeka!


Peter Schmideg

Peter Schmideg



Dec 12 2009 3:45 AM

Thank you for dropping by with the birthday greeting, Lance. And Happy Chanukah!
Paul Levinson

Paul Levinson



Dec 12 2009 1:32 AM

Happy Chanukah!





Felynett marie

Felynett marie Accidental poet



Dec 12 2009 12:24 AM

A very Happy Chanukkah to you Lance!
Shalom!
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Dec 11 2009 6:35 PM

Have A Wonderful Weekend!!!
Blackbird

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Dec 10 2009 6:36 PM


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Dec 10 2009 3:15 PM

Hi Lance Strate, we just finished SPELLFURY Episode 6, any chance you'd tell us what you think of this one? Comments from our friends keep us going!



P.S Thanks so much for your support, please tell your friends if you like it!

~Sir Tommie~ I Am Poetry~

~Sir Tommie~ I Am Poetry~
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Dec 10 2009 1:03 AM

**Warning** the link to this blog my make you delete me and never hit me up again....maybe maybe not. Come join the blog and invite your friends if you think they can take the subject matter.  Here is the link.

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=302958438&blogId=521635630

Love is love

~Sir Tommie~

PS I know you did not like the JOB stuff so let see how this one hits you...lol
Carol's ♥ La vita è bella e dolce ♥

Carol Vaskelis



Dec 9 2009 11:20 PM

Snoopy Christmas Pictures, Images and Photos
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Hey, Turner

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Dec 9 2009 8:29 PM




Turner Originals BIG and TALL
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Dec 8 2009 6:55 AM

lolcat Pictures, Images and Photos

Have missed you!
xo
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Corey Anton

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Dec 6 2009 12:09 PM


~Sir Tommie~ I Am Poetry~

~Sir Tommie~ I Am Poetry~
Online Now!


Dec 5 2009 11:30 PM

Hey Hope your weekend is going well. Just wanted to let you know I have a new write up and since alerts are not working here is the link.  http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=302958438&blogId=521144165

See you on the blog my friend

~Sir Tommie~
Felynett marie

Felynett marie Accidental poet



Dec 5 2009 3:44 AM

You are the busiest man I know.
I love your writing and your puns.
There is a new piece of a story if you
get a chance.
Enjoy the Holidays.
Shalom!!! 
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Dec 5 2009 1:18 AM

Hope you have a great weekend
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Today The Sun Smiled At Me Today And I Learned Warmth....
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Dec 1 2009 5:24 PM

Yup, you are a changin'!
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