Digital Literacy

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.

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.