Abstract This comprehensive review of Tom Cooper’s Wisdom Weavers explores the intellectual "symphony" composed by Cooper to honor the lives, relationships and legacies of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan. It interprets the text through the Association for Media Literacy (AML) lens, evaluating how Cooper humanizes these two Canadian giants while tracing their influences from … [Read more...] about Wisdom Weavers by Tom Cooper: A Book Review
McLuhan Mosaic
One Plus One Equals Three: A review of Dr. Paolo Granata’s Generative Knowledge
Abstract Unlike many reviewers, I often read the front matter and after-matter (index, glossary, and bibliography) of a new book before reading further. In the very first essay within his front matter, a prologue entitled “The Divine Move”, we discover that Paolo Granata’s Generative Knowledge:Think, Learn, Create With AI (Wiley Blackwell, 2025, 276 pp.) is not another … [Read more...] about One Plus One Equals Three: A review of Dr. Paolo Granata’s Generative Knowledge
When the Algorithm is the Message: GenAI as Educational Environment
Abstract This article addresses the impact of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) on education from a media ecology perspective. GenAI configures a new linguistic environment that alters the conditions under which knowledge is produced, circulated, and validated. Far from being limited to the automated generation of content, these systems reorganize attention, … [Read more...] about When the Algorithm is the Message: GenAI as Educational Environment
Hot Knowledge, Cool Action? Designing Digital Knowledge Platforms in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Abstract Digital knowledge platforms have become central instruments in sustainable development, yet their effectiveness in translating information into action remains limited. Despite substantial investment, many platforms function as static repositories rather than participatory systems that support learning, interpretation, and behavioural change. Drawing on empirical … [Read more...] about Hot Knowledge, Cool Action? Designing Digital Knowledge Platforms in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
The Imploded Hourglass
Abstract Are we “running out of time,” or stepping out of its shadow? “The Imploded Hourglass” is a poetic cartography of our temporal crisis. This poem maps the visceral shattering of the mechanical sense and meaning of “time” in the wake of the sped-up electric implosion of linear sequence. A personal reflection on the work of Marshall McLuhan, Jean Gebser, and Itzhak … [Read more...] about The Imploded Hourglass
