Mediactive

by Dan Gillmor

Overview

We're in an age of information overload, and too much of what we watch, hear and read is mistaken, deceitful or even dangerous. Yet you and I can take control and make media serve us -- all of us -- by being active consumers and participants. Here's how.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780984633623
Publisher:	Dan Gillmor
Publication date:	12/09/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	879 KB

About the Author

Dan Gillmor has a deep background in media and journalism. A longtime newspaper columnist and author of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, Dan has been a founder, investor and advisor in new-media companies. He's currently director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Dan is also a columnist for Salon.com, writing about technology and media. Dan's previous book, We the Media, explained the rise of citizen media and why it matters. More about Dan at dangillmor.com/about.

Editorial Reviews

"A master-class in media-literacy for the 21st century, operating on all scales from the tiniest details of navigating wiki software all the way up to sensible and smart suggestions for reforming law and policy to make the news better and fairer. Gillmor's a reporter's reporter for the information age, Mediactive made me want to stand up and salute."

Cory Doctorow

"Dan Gillmor’s new book, Mediactive, is a handbook for engaged media citizenship."

Josh Stearns