Michael Grabowski, Ph.D., is a professor of communication and director of the Game Design and Production program at Manhattan University. His work explores how forms of mediated communication, including immersive and AI-generated media, shape the way people think and act within their symbolic environment. He is the editor of the collection Neuroscience and Media: New Understandings and Representations, and his work on documentaries, feature films, commercials, music videos, and news has played at the Guggenheim, the Smithsonian, film festivals, and on broadcast, cable, and streaming television networks.