Paolo Granata

Paolo Granata is an Associate Professor of Book and Media Studies at St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto. An award-winning educator, author, and cross-disciplinary media scholar, his research and teaching interests lie in the areas of Media Ethics, EdTech, Media Ecology, Semiotics, and Print Culture.

Over the past two decades, he has held appointments at the University of Bologna; the Academies of Fine Arts in Bologna and Turin; and, most recently, the University of Toronto, with affiliations at the School of Cities and the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society. In 2024-2025, he served as a visiting professor at Luiss University (Italy), ESPM (Brazil), and Shanghai University (China).

As a cultural strategist and advocate for sustainable development, his research and consultancy in 2017 contributed to Toronto’s designation as a UNESCO Creative City. Since 2018, he has served on the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, focusing on digital sustainability and Culture for the SDGs.

In 2019, he founded the Media Ethics Lab, a research hub examining how digital media practices and emerging technologies raise ethical challenges and shape political, social, and cultural life. He also chairs The Toronto School Initiative, an intellectual community advancing research and collaboration around the legacy of the Toronto School of Communication.

Since 2011, he has been a Marshall McLuhan Centenary Fellow at the Faculty of Information, and since 2019 a Senior Fellow at Massey College. He is the author of nine books and more than 50 publications—including essays, articles, book chapters, and policy reports—in Italian, English, French, and Spanish.

His latest book, Generative Knowledge: Think, Learn, Create with AI (Wiley, 2026), offers educators, students, researchers, and professionals a clear guide to AI’s impact on intellectual life and a practical roadmap for navigating its implications.

Website: www.paologranata.it
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/paolo-granata