Fitchburg State University
ORCID: 0000-0002-4914-7404
Research Interests
Critical posthumanism
media philosophy
digital rhetoric
AI ethics
platforms
algorithms
networked technologies
culture
identity
political life
Professional Affiliations
- Co-founding Editor
- Journal of Critical Posthumanisms
- Editorial Board Member
- International Journal of Mass Communication
- Editorial Board Member
- Turkish Review of Communication Studies Journal
- Editorial Board Member
- Critical Posthumanism and Citizenship Studies book series (Bloomsbury)
- Former Assistant Editor
- Journal of Posthumanism
- Former Book Review Editor
- Journal of Posthumanism
- Manuscript Reviewer for over two dozen journals including Social Media + Society
- AI and Ethics
- Deleuze and Guattari Studies
- International Journal of Communication
- Peer Reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities
Academic Honors
- Peer reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities
Professional Experience
Associate Professor of Communications Media at Fitchburg State University
formerly Assistant Editor and Book Review Editor for the Journal of Posthumanism
Biography
Dr. J. J. Sylvia IV is an Associate Professor of Communications Media at Fitchburg State University. His scholarly work spans critical posthumanism
Awards & Recognition
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Publications & Representative Works
Complete Bibliography
2025
Impacts of Intersectional Dual-Perspective VR Experiences on Empathy and Understanding of Microaggressions
Human Technology
2025
LiveJournal and Russian Disinformation: The Rise of Epistemic Sabotage
Bloomsbury
2024
Special Issue: Is Resistance Futile? Lowering Our Shields While Refusing to Surrender: Exploring Generative AI in the Classroom and Professional Communication
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
2024
Special Issue: Posthumanism and Media Studies
Journal of Posthumanism
2024
Introduction: Posthumanism and Media Studies
Journal of Posthumanism
2024
Beyond the Robot Tropes: Embracing Nuance and Context in the Adoption of Generative AI
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
2024
From Microfascism to Joyful Affects: A Posthuman Approach to Social Media Redesign
Journal of Posthumanism
2024
Generative AI in Technical Communication: A Review of Research from 2023-2024
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
2024
Introduction to Communication and Media Studies
2024
The Data Renaissance: Analyzing the Disciplinary Impacts of Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Beyond (2nd Edition)
2022
BreadTube Rising: How Modern Creators Use Cultural Formats to Spread Countercultural Ideology
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
2022
From Form to In-formation: A Spinozan Link Between Deleuzian and Simondian Ontologies
Deleuze and Guattari Studies
2022
Is it Paranoia? A Critical Approach to Platform Literacy
Journal of Media Literacy
2021
A Genealogical Analysis of Information and Technics
Information
2021
An Affirmative Approach to Teaching Critical Data Studies
Journalism and Media
2021
Posthuman Media Studies
Journal of Posthumanism
2021
Access and Agency: Rethinking the Public through Digital Humanities
Fitchburg State University Press
