SCHOOL OF H&SS
PENN STATE BEHREND
170 KOCHEL CENTER
ERIE PA 16563
Biography
Tiffany Petricini is an associate teaching professor in Communication. She is co-chair of Penn State’s Joint Standing Committee on Responsible and Effective Use of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education, and co-chair of Penn State’s Workload Policy Taskforce. She also leads the Penn State Artificial Intelligence Community of Practice (AICoP) and the Humanities Institute’s Phenomenology Collaborative Colloquia. She also is the co-founder of the Educational AI Collaborative (EAIC) and is a Teaching with Technology Fellow for 2024-2026. Her publications have reflected interests in phenomenology, interpersonal communication, technology, philosophy, ethics, and media ecology, including her work “Friendship and Technology,” available through Routledge. She also serves as the social media expert for NBC affiliate WFMJ 21 News.
Research Interests
phenomenology, interpersonal communication, technology, philosophy, ethics, and media ecology
Publications
Books
Petricini, T. (2022). Friendship and Technology: A Philosophical Approach to Computer Mediated Communication. Routledge.
Refereed Scholarly Journals
Petricini, T. (2024). Special issue introduction: AI and media ecology. Explorations in Media Ecology, 23(1), 93-103.
Petricini, T. (2024). What would Aristotle do? Navigating generative artificial intelligence in higher education. Postdigital Science and Education, 1-7.
Petricini, T. (2024). ChatGPT: Everything to everyone all at once. ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 80(3), 340-350.
Petricini, T. (2019). Explorations in the noosphere: Hermeneutic presence and hostility in cyberspace. Explorations in Media Ecology, 18(1-2), 57-71.
Petricini, T. (2017). Synchronic responsibility: A commentary on Walter J. Ong’s work on time consciousness. Explorations in Media Ecology, 16(2-3), 195-203.
Reports
Ramsay, C., & Petricini, T. et al. (2024). Final Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Effective and Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Instruction. Penn State Joint Standing Committee on Effective Use of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Instruction, Penn State.
Book Reviews
Petricini, T. (2024). Review of Matteo Pasquinelli (2023). The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence. Postdigital Science and Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-024-00513-0
Petricini, T. (2024). Book Review: The Phenomenology of Virtual Technology. Technophany A Journal for Philosophy and Technology, 2(1), 1-5.
Petricini, T. (2021). Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged From Matter, Terrance Deacon (2011). Explorations in Media Ecology, 20.1, 107-110.
Petricini, T. (2020). Children, Media, and American History, Margaret Cassidy (2017). Explorations in Media Ecology, 19(2), 237-240.
Book Chapters
Zipf, S., Petricini, T., & Wu, C. (2024). Chapter 13 AI Monsters: An Application to Student and Faculty Knowledge and Perceptions of Generative AI. In Sanae Elmoudden, Jason S. Wrench (Eds.), The Role of Generative AI in the Communication Classroom IGI Global. 284-299.
Petricini, T. (2024). Research organizations. In 30 Assessment Ideas Using Gen AI. Course Hero. [Ebook]
Petricini, T. (June, 2022). Family Communication Disrupted by Incarceration and the Role of Technology An Overview. In M. McGinley, J. Burk, & J. Ward (Eds.), Communicating with Our Families: Technology as Continuity, Interruption, and Transformation (pp. 185-201). Lexington.
Education
Teaching and Learning with Technology Faculty Fellow, Penn State University, 2024-2026, State College, PA
Global Learning Faculty Fellow, Penn State University, 2024, State College, PA
Ph.D. Rhetoric, concentrations in Technology, Ethics, and Interpersonal/Intercultural Communication, Duquesne University, 2020, Pittsburgh, PA
M.A. Communication Studies, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, 2014, Edinboro, PA
B.A. Communication Studies, concentration in Interpersonal Communication, Youngstown State University, 2009, Youngstown, OH