# Lance Strate

Lance A. Strate (born September 17, 1957) is an American writer and professor of communication and media studies at Fordham University. He was the 2015 Margaret E. and Paul F. Harron Endowed Chair in Communication at Villanova University, and in 2016 lectured at the School of Journalism and Communication at Henan University, in Kaifeng China.Strate is quoted frequently in the media about politics and social media, including in The New York Times, USA Today, Fortune Magazine, ABC News, South Dakota Public Radio (NPR), The National Post (Canada), The Jerusalem Post, and NHK Japanese Public Television.Strate is one of the founders of the Media Ecology Association. He served as that organization's first president from 1998 to 2009, and was the co-founder of the MEA's journal, Explorations in Media Ecology, which he co-edited from 2001 to 2004, and edited alone from 2004 to 2007.