The person who studies the symbiotic relationship between people and the media technologies which they create and use is identified as
The scholar who studies the symbiotic relationship between people and the media technologies they create and use is called a media ecologist.
Media ecology treats media as environments that shape human perception, thought and social organisation, in the tradition of McLuhan and Postman.
Its central concern is the mutual, interdependent bond between a society and its communication technologies.
A media influencer merely uses platforms to sway audiences and is not a scholar of this environmental relationship.
A media sociologist studies media within social structures broadly, but the term does not name this specific ecological focus.
A media anthropologist examines media within cultures, yet again this is not the label for the study of the person-technology symbiosis.
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