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Lance Strate
Concerning Communication: Epic Quests and Lyrical Excursions Within the Human Lifeworld is a collection of essays that range across a variety of topics, including models of communication, language and symbolic…
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Integrating Postman’s arguments about television with his critique of technology in general, Strate considers the current state of journalism, politics, religion, and education in American culture. Strate also contextualizes Amusing…
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The second poetry collection by Lance Strate, this volume brings together an eclectic mix of poems that address the themes of language, communication, media, technology, and poetry itself, etc.
Explorations of how we use symbols and media to relate to our environment, and how different modes of perception and communication influence human consciousness, culture, and social organization. These essays…
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…
"Poetry collection. A personal and spiritual collection with Hebraic references"--
Lance Strate (both at Fordham University)
About The Author Lance Strate is a native New Yorker, having been born in Manhattan, and moved out to Queens two weeks later, and now working in the Bronx and…
Frank Sligo
In exploring the everyday workplace and community environments of adults with liminal literacy, this book demonstrates how a media ecology perspective allows adult literacy and orality to be reimagined within…
Oracle of the electronic age, Marshall McLuhan believed artists could wake us and offer new windows into the world. This diverse collection brings together twenty-nine poets, writers, and artists who…
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Alfred Korzybski
The classic work by Alfred Korzybski that introduces his new discipline of general semantics, now in a sixth edition. Based on scientific method, Korzybski presents readers with the idea of…
These essays explore the growing complexity, range, and reach of media commercialism in today’s world. From the media giants to the effects of advertising on politics, society, and the individual…
Robert K. Logan
Despite McLuhan’s claim that he did not work from a theory, his body of work in fact constitutes a theory that Robert K. Logan calls his General Theory of Media…
Dennis D. Cali
Dennis D. Cali offers a survey of a field as consequential as it is fascinating. Designed to be used primarily in media and communication courses, the book’s goal is to…
In this second edition of Understanding New Media Logan expertly updates McLuhan’s Understanding Media to analyze the new media McLuhan foreshadowed and yet was never able to analyze or experience…
Candy: A Collection To Satisfy Your Sweetest Cravings, is an eclectic collection which ranges from the romantic to the taboo and from the intimate to the voyeuristic. With sensitivity, passion…
This second edition, published in response to the recent Korzybski revival, adds new introductory material and a revised index, providing an accessible introduction to Korzybski’s arguments concerning the need for…
Robert K. Logan,Marshall McLuhan
Originally written in the late 1970s, this book was untouched for more than 35 years. McLuhan passed away before it went to press, but Logan always intended to finish it…
This book brings together a number of prominent scholars to explore a relatively under-studied area of Marshall McLuhan’s thought: his idea of formal cause and the role that formal cause…
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Christine L. Nystrom
The Genes of Culture integrates insights from philosophy, the physical sciences, social psychology and cultural criticism to pose challenging questions for today’s students of media. An exemplary foundation reader for…
A cross-disciplinary tour-de-force, The Genes of Culture integrates insights from philosophy, the physical sciences, social psychology and cultural criticism to pose challenging questions for today’s students of media.
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