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Generation AI Coda
This instalment, “Coda: A Political Question of the First Order,” concludes the three-part article series, “Generation AI: The Other Environmental Crisis.” It invites us to step, individually and in community, into our creative, ethical, and political power for the active shaping of AI in the present—for our common future. -
Generation AI Part 3
This article is the third instalment in a three-part series, “Generation AI: The Other Environmental Crisis,” exploring the social cultural, neurobiological, and relational impact of AI—the other environmental crisis affecting humans today. Part 3, “I have Studied Language, Behold How Humane I am,” analyzes the relational aspect of AI use and abuse as it meets with the human need for connection and communication—the backdrop against which humans are being evaluated on a coevolutionary path with AI. -
Generation AI Part 2
This article is the second instalment in a three-part series, Generation AI: The Other Environmental Crisis, exploring the sociocultural, neurobiological, and relational impact of AI—the other environmental crisis affecting human today. Part 2, “Redefining Success,” examines how the neurobiological effects of AI are changing definitions of AI success, and shaping its development and deployment. -
Generation AI Part 1
This 3-part article series explores the sociocultural, neurobiological, and relational impact of AI—the other environmental crisis affecting humans today. PART 1, “Saving Celeste,” examines the social and cultural pressures represented by the Google x Douglas Coupland project, “Slogans for the Class of 2030.” -
Reconciling the Past
Protesters in Winnipeg topple a statue of Queen Victoria, putting an end to the reign of Canada’s Nineteenth Century. -
Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying has escalated since the introduction of the Apple iPhone 4s in 2011. It shows no signs of slowing down. Media Literacy is perhaps best put to use in the classroom as a method for prevention of cyberbullying. -
Living in Harmony
Basil Johnston believes that stories are the ideal medium with which to convey Anishinaabe values to Western education systems, potentially reversing the damage done by Western Anthropologists who have continually misrepresented Indigenous people as having no concerns beyond mere survival. -
From Snake Oil to Silicon
An address to the University of Windsor Law Faculty on October 25, 2019 by Andrew McLuhan. This address was part of the Media & Space: The Regulation of Digital Platforms, New Media & Technologies Symposium. -
Hashtags, Digital Blanks, and Social Justice
The power of the #hashtag as a digital blank is equal to that of the printed blank in its ability to configure identities. What is the special place of social-justice complexes like #BlackLivesMatter and #DefundThePolice in the world of the digital blank? -
COVID-19 as World War
When the enemy in this war is a virus, anyone you meet is a potential combatant. This is an enemy without ideology, without a face. Familiarity and trust have no place as your closest people, not to mention strangers, could be carriers—are a threat.
