Description:
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 environments.
Review Quotes: "With characteristic passion and soulfulness, Lance Strate embarks on a metatask: to synthesize thinking about 'life, the universe and everything' through the lens of media ecology. In the process, he locates media ecology as the dynamic shift between figure and ground and as the basis for 'understanding the human condition.' Writing with an almost disarming ease that belies the complexity of the ideas he communicates, Strate brilliantly and reflexively mediates media ecology itself, bringing clarity to the Kekulé-like conundrums of an immense and increasingly relevant field. Anyone who thoughtfully enters and engages the environment of Strate's book will be rewarded with moments of profound clarity, connecting ideas typically viewed as disparate or oppositional into patterns of deep understanding about media ecology-and about the process of living."-Julianne H. Newton, Professor of Visual Communication, University of Oregon