Digital Literacy: A Primer on Media, Identity, and the Evolution of Technology / Edition 1

by Ralph Beliveau, Susan Wiesinger

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433128219
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	01/24/2016
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	179
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction The Book Starts Here – The Evolution of Contemporary Media: Recalling a Collective Past, Sharing a Fragmented Present – The Medium Is the Mass-Age: Revisiting Marshall McLuhan – It Really Is a Thing: The Internet as Infrastructure – If It’s Not the Internet, What Is It? The Web as a Collaborative Tool – We’re Not Here: The Cultural Consequences of All Me, All the Time – Digital Identity: Options, Opportunities, Oppressions, Impressions – From Neighbors to Followers: Rethinking What It Means to Be Part of a Community – If You Don’t Think About It, It’s OK: Digital Haves and Have-Nots – The Web at Its Best: A Conduit for Social Movements & Change – This Space for Rent: Corporate Colonialism & Free Speech – Remixes & Mash-Ups: Appropriation of Culture Goes Digital – It’s Not Yours: Digital Privacy & Copyright – Can’t Put the Genie Back in the Bottle: Now What? – Applied Skills Appendices – Appendix 1 The Web Is More Than Online Paper – Appendix 2 Email Etiquette – Appendix 3 Blogging Guidelines – Appendix 4 Professional Use of Social Media – Appendix 5 The Care and Reading of a URL – Appendix 6 File Management Bibliography Index.

Editorial Reviews

Wiesinger does an excellent job of covering critical issues regarding digital literacy, and it is her direct, succinct, and informational style that would make this book a valuable text in any class that addresses digital literacy.
(Diane Martinez, Research in Online Literacy Education Jan. 2018)

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