Casey Man Kong Lum (PhD, New York University) is Professor in the Department of Communication and Founding Director of the M. A. in Professional Communication Program at William Paterson University. Dr. Lum is one of the five founders of the Media Ecology Association (MEA) in the United States and the MEA’s Founding Vice President. Among Professor Lum’s numerous publications include Perspectives on Culture, Technology, and Communication: The Media Ecology Tradition, In Search of a Voice: Karaoke and the Construction of Identity in Chinese America, and Urban Foodways and Communication: Ethnographic Studies in Intangible Culture Food Heritages Around the World, as well as a variety of journal articles and book chapters in matters relating to media ecology, urban food cultures as communication, intercultural communication and education, global media studies, Asian American media and cultures, etc. Currently, he is also a member on the Board of Directors of the Urban Communication Foundation. Professor Lum lives in Manhattan, New York City, with his family.

Lum, Casey M. K. (2011). Interview with Casey Lum (re. Perspectives on Media Ecology and Media Education). Figure/Ground Communications (a full-length essay with 24 double-spaced manuscript pages). Accessible at http://figureground.ca/interviews/casey-lum/. 

Notes: Other scholars who are featured in this interview series include Noam Chomsky, Albert Borgmann, Kenneth J. Gergen, Eric McLuhan, etc. NOTE: This Chinese-translated copy was provided by Professor HE Daokuan.

Sample publications:

Books:

林文刚编：《媒介环境学：思想沿革与多维视野》, 第二版，何道宽译，北京：中国大百科全书出版社，2019 年。[The is the
second simplified Chinese translation edition of Lum (2006) by the
Encyclopedia of China Publishing House, Beijing.]

Lum, C. M. K., & de Ferrière le Vayer, M. (Eds.). (2016). Urban foodways and communication: Ethnographic studies in intangible cultural food heritages around the world. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Lum, C. M. K. (2006). (Ed.). Perspectives on culture, technology, and communication: The media ecology tradition.
Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. [Winner, Lewis Mumford Award for
Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics, The Media Ecology
Association, 2006]. This book has been translated and published in
simplified Chinese by Peking University Press in Beijing, China (2007);
in Korean by Hannarae Publishing Company in Seoul, South Korea (2008);
in traditional Chinese by Chu Liu Publishing Company in Taipei, Taiwan
(2010).

Lum, C. M. K. (1996). In search of a voice: Karaoke and the construction of identity in Chinese America. Foreword by N. Postman. London: Routledge.

Articles and Book Chapters:

Lum, C.  M. K. (2019). Media ecology and media education: Reflections
on media literacy in a globalized communication ecology [in Chinese]. Chinese Journal of Journalism and Communication, 41(4), 89-108. 林文刚: 媒介环境学和媒体教育: 反思全球化传播生态中的媒体素养, 《国际新闻界》, 2019年4月 (41卷 4期): 89-108.

Lum, C. M. K. (2018). Developing intercultural competence in the language classroom. In J. Liontas (Ed.) (Vol Ed.: S. Nero). The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching, Vol. VI (pp. 3545-3550). Oxford, UK: Wiley. DOI: 10.1002/9781118784235.eelt0282

Lum, C. M. K. (2015). Regionalism and communication: Voices from the Chinese diaspora. In A. Gonzalez & Y.-W. Chen (Eds.), Our voices: Essays in culture, ethnicity, and communication (pp. 327-334, 6th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.

Lum, C. M. K. (2014). Media ecology: Contexts, concepts, and currents. In R. Fortner & M. Fackler (Eds.), The handbook in media and mass communication theory (pp. 137-153, Vol. 1). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. (Winner: The 2016 Walter Benjamin Award for Outstanding Article in the Field of Media Ecology.)

Lum, C. M. K. (2013). Understanding urban foodways and communicative cities: A taste of Hong Kong’s yumcha culture as urban communication. In S. Drucker, V. Gallenger, & M. Matsaganis (Eds.), The urban communication reader III: Communicative cities and urban communication in the 21st century (pp. 53-76). New York: Peter Lang.

Lum, C. M. K. (2006). Communicating Chinese heritage in America: A
study of bicultural education across generations. In W. Leeds-Hurwitz
(Ed.), From generation to generation: Maintaining cultural identity over rime (pp. 75-98). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Lum, C. M. K., & Haratonik, P. L. (2011). A comparative study of Xintiandi in Shanghai and South Street Seaport in New York City [in Chinese]. In F. Sun & J. Yang (Eds.), Tales of two cities: Urban culture in Shanghai and New York City (pp. 44-57). Shanghai, China: Truth & Wisdom Press and Shanghai People’s Publishing.

Currently on the Board of Directors of the Urban Communication Foundation, Casey has been actively serving the profession in various leadership capacities, such as:

• Founding secretary (1993-95) and president (1997-98), the Association for Chinese Communication Studies

• Chair (1993-94), the Asia Pacific American Caucus at the National Communication Association (NCA)

• Co-founder (1998) and vice president (1998-2009), the Media Ecology Association

• Chair, Local Arrangements Committee for NCA’s 1998 annual convention in New York City

• Chair (1998-99), NCA’s International and Intercultural Communication Division

Casey serves as a reviewer and on the editorial board of a number of
refereed journals. He is a long-time resident of New York City.