Ralph Beliveau, Susan Wiesinger

Digital Literacy (eBook, ePUB)

A Primer on Media, Identity, and the Evolution of Technology

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Internet, World Wide Web, and digital devices have fundamentally changed the way people communicate, affecting everything from business, to school, to family, to religion, to democracy. This textbook takes a well-rounded view of the evolution from media literacy to digital literacy to help students better understand the digitally filtered world in which they live.
The text explores digital literacy through three lenses:
. Historical: reviews snapshots of time and space to delineate how things were in order to lend context to how they are;
. Cultural: explores how values and ideals are constructed and conveyed within a given cultural context - how humans absorb and share the informal rules and norms that make up a society;
. Critical: illuminates how social changes - particularly rapid ones - can put certain people at a disadvantage.
All three angles are helpful for better understanding the myriad ways in which our identities and relationships are being altered by technology, and what it means to be a citizen in a society that has become individualized and is in constant flux.
Written in a conversational and approachable style, the text is easy to navigate, with short chapters, short paragraphs, and bullet points. Comics and images illustrate complex topics and add visual interest.
The text is ideal for media literacy, digital information literacy, and technology courses that seek to integrate human impact into the mix. It is also a good starting point for anyone wanting to know more about the impact of communication technologies on our lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781454192978
• Artikelnr.: 53492066

Autorenporträt

Susan Wiesinger (PhD, Purdue University) is a professor of Journalism & Public Relations at California State University, Chico. She is the co-author of Media Smackdown: Deconstructing the News and the Future of Journalism (Peter Lang, 2013).
Ralph Beliveau is an associate professor in The Gaylord College of Journalism & Mass Communication at The University of Oklahoma. He holds a PhD from the University of Iowa and a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements - What's New in the Second Edition - Introduction: The Book Starts Here - The Evolution of Contemporary Media: Recalling a Collective Past, Sharing a Fragmented Present - Corporate Colonialism: Why Ownership Matters - The Medium Is the Mass-Age: Revisiting Marshall McLuhan - We're Not Here: The Cultural Consequences of All Me, All the Time - Digital Identity: Options, Opportunities, Oppressions, Impressions - A Social Experiment: Digital Tech at Its Best & Worst - Much to Lose: The Symbiotic Relationship Among Journalism, Technology, & Democracy - It Really Is a Thing: The Internet as Infrastructure - If It's Not the Internet, What Is It? The Web as a Collaborative Tool - From Neighbors to Followers: Rethinking What It Means to Be Part of a Community - Haves, Almost Haves, & Have Nots: The Domestic Digital Divide - Connectivity & Digital Disruption: The Global Digital Divide - Remixes & Mashups: Appropriation of Cultural Goes Digital - Yours, Not Yours: Digital Surveillance & the Privacy Paradox - Can't Put the Genie Back in the Bottle: Now What? - Digital Communication Etiquette - Professional Use of Social Media - Writing for Digital Media & Content Credibility Cues - The Care and Reading of a URL - File Management - Key Concepts - Index.