Tiffany A. Petricini is Associate Teaching Professor of Communication and Media at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. Her scholarship examines media ecology, communication ethics, artificial intelligence, and postdigital life, with particular attention to how technological environments reshape human relationships, judgment, education, and everyday experience. Her work has been published widely in journals including AI & Society, Postdigital Science and Education, and Explorations in Media Ecology. She is also the author of Friendship and Technology: A Philosophical Approach to Computer Mediated Communication (2022) and co-editor of Beyond the Podium: AI, Speech and Civic Voice (2025).