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 communication, sense perception, the self, disability and autism, listening, reading, science, media literacy, ethics, innovation, systems theory, information, communication history, isolation, solipsism, technology, education, media ecology, and general semantics. Lance Strate’s unifying theme throughout this volume is the centrality of communication, as a phenomenon, to human life, and the importance of communication, as a field of study, to understanding ourselves and our place in the universe.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Introduction: Defining and Modeling Communication
Chapter 1: Something from Nothing
Material Matters
Form and Substance
Change
Form and Transformation
Communication and Science
Communication and Media
Echo and Narcissus
Narcissism and Echolalia
The Enigma of Autism
The Struggle for a Sense of Self
Theory of Mind
Evolutionary Perspectives
Ongoing Concerns
Chapter 2: Sounding Off About Listening
Many Varieties of Listenings
Hearing, Listening, Mediating
Metaphoric Usage
Orality and Hearing
Eye vs . Ear
Acoustic Space
Listening and the Electronic Media Environment
Conclusion
Chapter 3: The New Grammarians
The War Within the Trivium
The Origin of Modern Science
Grammar and Schooling
Language, Culture, and Media
Ecology and Systems
Chapter 4: Media Literacy and General Semantics
Chapter 5: Communication and Innovation
Chapter 6: Communication and Social Systems
Chapter 7: Information in the Context of Communication and Mediation
Information as News
Information as Control
Information and Mediation
Information as a Variable
Implications for ‚The Information Age‘
Chapter 8: Communication and Isolation
Communication and Solipsism
Media, Journalism, and the Culture of Solipsism
Hyperreality and Media Solipsism
Chapter 9: Human Communication and Human Technology
Human Communication
Human Technology
Higher Education
Chapter 10: My Lambda Pi Eta Address
About the Author
About the Artist
References
Index
Über den Autor
Lance Strate is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, where he has previously served as department chair, graduate director, director of the undergraduate program, and designed and directed an interdisciplinary major in Professional Studies in New Media. He held the 2015 Harron Family Chair in Communication at Villanova University, and received an honorary appointment as Chair Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Henan University in Kaifeng, China, in 2016. He earned his Ph D in the Media Ecology Program at New York University, his MA from the Communication Arts and Sciences Department at Queens College of the City University of New York, and a BS degree from Cornell University.Dr. Strate is a Trustee and President of the Institute of General Semantics, and Secretary and Past President of the New York Society for General Semantics. He is the Co-Chair of the Global Listening Centre’s Academic Board, as well as a Past President of the New York State Communication Association. He is also one of the founders of the Media Ecology Association, served as the MEA President for over a decade, and is presently a member of the MEA’s Board of Directors. He is also a Trustee and Past President of Congregation Adas Emuno of Leonia, New Jersey. Lance Strate is the author of nine books, including Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition (2017), Amazing Ourselves to Death: Neil Postman’s Brave New World Revisited (2014), On the Binding Bi-ases of Time and Other Essays on General Semantics and Media Ecology (2011), Echoes and Reflections: On Media Ecology as a Field of Study (2006), and the poetry collections Diatribal Writes of Passage in a World of Wintertextuality (2020) and Thunder at Darwin Station (2015). He is also the co-editor of 7 anthologies, including Taking Up Mc Luhan’s Cause: Perspectives on Media and Formal Causality (2017), The Medium is the Muse: Channeling Marshall Mc Luhan (2015), Korzybski and… (2012), The Legacy of Mc Luhan (2005), and two editions of Communication and Cyberspace: Social Interaction in an Electronic Environment (1996, 2003). Additionally, he has served as editor of the Speech Communication Annual, the General Semantics Bulletin, and Explorations in Media Ecology, a journal he founded and edited for 9 years (2002-2007, 2017-2019). Among his many major addresses, Dr. Strate delivered the 10th Annual Cardinal Newman Lecture at Manhattan College, the 10th Annual Bernard B. Gilligan Memorial Lecture at Fordham University, the 66th Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture for the Institute of General Semantics, and the Fifth Annual Harron Family Endowed Chair Public Lecture at Villanova University.Lance Strate is the recipient of the Global Listening Centre’s 2020 Outstanding Research Award, the Eastern Communication Association’s 2019 Distinguished Research Fellow Award, the Media Ecology Association’s 2018 Marshall Mc Luhan Award for Outstanding Book and its 2013 Walter Ong Award for Scholarship, the Institute of General Semantics‘ 2022 J. Talbot Winchell Award for Service, the New York State Communication Association’s 2019 Neil Postman Mentor Award and its 1998 John F. Wilson Fellow Award for exceptional scholarship, leadership, and dedication to the field of communication, and the Proclamation by Mayor Wellington E. Webb, in honor of his keynote address to the Rocky Mountain Communication Association, ‚that February 15, 2002 be known as Dr. Lance Strate Day in the City and County of Denver.‘Ebooks vom selben Autor / Herausgeber
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