This editorial looks back over the first 24 volumes of Explorations in Media Ecology and recognizes the founders of the Media Ecology Association (MEA) for their foresight in prioritizing the establishment of an MEA journal.
This is a collection of visual poems that use a single phrase as the material for each image.
This article proposes Technoaxia as a new ethical framework for navigating the moral complexity of the digital age. Drawing on the Platonic myth of the Ring of Gyges as an allegory for the power of technological invisibility, and on the media–ecological tradition from Marshall McLuhan to Neil Postman, the article argues that existing ethical frameworks – virtue ethics, deontology and utilitarianism – are insufficient because they were not designed to address effects that are structural, unconscious and mediated. Technoaxia, understood as an ethics of the invisible mediation of technology, focuses precisely on this gap: the systematic study of how media and technologies reshape human values below the threshold of conscious awareness and the cultivation of reflexive agency in response. The article critically engages with the literature on AI ethics, identifies its limitations and applies the Technoaxia framework to the concrete case of generative AI in education, demonstrating how the framework differs from and advances beyond prior proposals. The article concludes with the foundational principles of Technoaxia and a call for interdisciplinary implementation across education, design and governance.
Review of: Ethics of Virtual Reality, Technology and Experience , Michael J. Grabowski (2025) London: Lexington Books, 197 pp., ISBN 978-1-79365-197-6, h/bk, USD 94.50
This article provides perspective on teaching Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death from a philosophical orientation and in an interdisciplinary setting. It identifies questions that emerged regarding media ecology as a theory, specific examples from Postman’s book, and the relationship between the television age and the digital age. The article concludes with reflections on the integration of Postman’s work with other philosophical traditions.
