**About the Special Issue Editors**

**Robert K. Logan**, Prof., (Ph.D. MIT 1965) is an Emeritus Professor of physics, a fellow of St. Michael's College, and a member of the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto. He is also the Chief Scientist at OCAD (Ontario College of Art and Design) University in the Strategic Innovation Lab. He has a variety of experiences as an academic and has engaged in research in a variety of fields, including physics, media ecology, complexity theory, information theory, systems biology, environmental science, linguistics, and industrial design. He has published with and collaborated with Marshall McLuhan and continues his McLuhan studies research. He is also an author or editor of 19 books, 23 book chapters, and over 150 articles in refereed journals. He once taught The Poetry of Physics and the Physics of Poetry course at the U. of Toronto and has published a book with the same title as that of the course. He was the recipient of the Walter J. Ong Award for Career Achievement in Scholarship by the Media Ecology Association.

**Adriana Braga** is an Associate Professor of the Graduate Program of Social Communication at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq/Brazil), coordinator of the Research Group on Digital Interactions (GRID) and is a Visiting Professor at the University of Macau, China. With a Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and BA in Psychology, she is also the author of the books *Introdu¸c˜ao a Ecologia das M´ ` ıdias* (*Introduction to Media Ecology* with Lance Strate and Paul Levinson, 2019); *Personas Materno-Eletrˆonicas* (*Maternal-Electronic Personae*, 2008); *CMC, Identidades e G´enero* (*CMC, Identities and Gender*, in Portugal, 2005); and *Corpo-Ver˜ao* (*Summer-Body*, 2016). Her Ph.D. dissertation won the CAPES Thesis Award (MEC/Brazil) and Harold Innis Award (Media Ecology Association/USA). She serves as Vice President of the Media Ecology Association. She currently coordinates the Digital Media Lab (LabMiD), which develops projects in digital communication, literature, Brazilian culture, mobile telephony, digital literacy, gender, sociolinguistics, and technology.
