
J. Owen Matson, Ph.D.
Explores literature, film, art, AI, and educational technology through the lenses of cognition, media theory, and philosophy—tracing how we learn, create, and think across shifting systems.


The Ideology of EdTech: On Žižek and the Irony of Building What You Don’t Believe In

The Credential Is the Joke: Empathy, Platform Pedagogy, and the Irony of Knowing in a Cartoon by Rob Cottingham

Post-Recognition Pedagogy: The Exhaustion of Being Seen in the Platform Era

The Cognitive Intraface: Toward a Critical AI Pedagogy
