Overview

As a result of the convergence within the media environment, people are using media and technology in very different ways as compared to just a few years ago. Consider the experience of growing up today in a wireless broadband household, with easy access to cell phones and laptops, as compared with just a few years ago, when people used the Internet via a phone modem. Go even further back and remember how people viewed only the 500-channels available on the cable television lineup. So much has changed in the past 15 years. To thrive in a media-saturated society, people need to ask critical questions about what we watch, see, listen to, read and use. Covering topics from news and information to the internet to media consumption and addiction, this key textbook provides the tools to both empower and protect students as they navigate our increasingly complex media environment.

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A sorely needed book, and there is no better person to write it in terms of depth in the field.--Ralph Beliveau, Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Oklahoma Hobbs addresses a greatly underserved area within communications/media studies with a desperately needed undergraduate text combining empowerment and protectionist traditions that draws from the two main US media literacy traditions.--Natasha Casey Hobbs' approach not only allows students to broaden and deepen their knowledge of media literacy concepts but also to gain facility with hands-on tools and techniques for learning how to create, reflect, and act upon their own experiences with media and technology.--Colin Rhinesmith, Simmons University

"A sorely needed book, and there is no better person to write it in terms of depth in the field. A sorely needed book, and there is no better person to write it in terms of depth in the field.--Ralph Beliveau, Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication Hobbs addresses a greatly underserved area within communications/media studies with a desperately needed undergraduate text combining empowerment and protectionist traditions that draws from the two main US media literacy traditions. Hobbs addresses a greatly underserved area within communications/media studies with a desperately needed undergraduate text combining empowerment and protectionist traditions that draws from the two main US media literacy traditions.--Natasha Casey, Blackburn College Hobbs' approach not only allows students to broaden and deepen their knowledge of media literacy concepts but also to gain facility with hands-on tools and techniques for learning how to create, reflect, and act upon their own experiences with media and technology. Hobbs' approach not only allows students to broaden and deepen their knowledge of media literacy concepts but also to gain facility with hands-on tools and techniques for learning how to create, reflect, and act upon their own experiences with media and technology.--Colin Rhinesmith, Simmons University In this book, Renee Hobbs does an important service to the field of media literacy by providing a timely and much needed textbook with a deep overview of what it means to be media literate. The reader can practice through the chapters how to access information, analyze and evaluate media messages, create message, reflect on your own consumption of media and act thoughtfully as media producers. The exercises and examples help instructors and students to learn through an inquiry process as they form their own opinion and master the craft of conveying media messages using various techniques.--Yonty Friesem, Columbia College Chicago This textbook, aimed at high school students and college undergraduates, develops key concepts about media literacy and includes discussion questions to promote critical thinking related to media consumption. Each chapter begins with ""Learning Outcomes."" Also included are background information about particular aspects of media literacy and ""Critical Questions"" encouraging reader reflection. Historical material in each chapter provides highlights about an ""Intellectual Grandparent"" who represents groundbreaking foundational ideas on, e.g., gaming, music, digital citizenship, privacy, economics, and politics. ""Create to Learn"" activities, again in each chapter, ask students to apply ideas presented in the book, which comprises four parts. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates. General readers.-- ""Choice Reviews"" In this book, Renee Hobbs does an important service to the field of media literacy by providing a timely and much needed textbook with a deep overview of what it means to be media literate. The reader can practice through the chapters how to access information, analyze and evaluate media messages, create message, reflect on your own consumption of media and act thoughtfully as media producers. The exercises and examples help instructors and students to learn through an inquiry process as they form their own opinion and master the craft of conveying media messages using various techniques. This textbook, aimed at high school students and college undergraduates, develops key concepts about media literacy and includes discussion questions to promote critical thinking related to media consumption. Each chapter begins with ""Learning Outcomes."" Also included are background information about particular aspects of media literacy and ""Critical Questions"" encouraging reader reflection. Historical material in each chapter provides highlights about an ""Intellectual Grandparent"" who represents groundbreaking foundational ideas on, e.g., gaming, music, digital citizenship, privacy, economics, and politics. ""Create to Learn"" activities, again in each chapter, ask students to apply ideas presented in the book, which comprises four parts. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates. General readers."

A sorely needed book, and there is no better person to write it in terms of depth in the field.--Ralph Beliveau, Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Oklahoma Hobbs addresses a greatly underserved area within communications/media studies with a desperately needed undergraduate text combining empowerment and protectionist traditions that draws from the two main US media literacy traditions.--Natasha Casey, Blackburn College Hobbs' approach not only allows students to broaden and deepen their knowledge of media literacy concepts but also to gain facility with hands-on tools and techniques for learning how to create, reflect, and act upon their own experiences with media and technology.--Colin Rhinesmith, Simmons University

"A sorely needed book, and there is no better person to write it in terms of depth in the field.--Ralph Beliveau, Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication Hobbs addresses a greatly underserved area within communications/media studies with a desperately needed undergraduate text combining empowerment and protectionist traditions that draws from the two main US media literacy traditions.--Natasha Casey, Blackburn College Hobbs' approach not only allows students to broaden and deepen their knowledge of media literacy concepts but also to gain facility with hands-on tools and techniques for learning how to create, reflect, and act upon their own experiences with media and technology.--Colin Rhinesmith, Simmons University In this book, Renee Hobbs does an important service to the field of media literacy by providing a timely and much needed textbook with a deep overview of what it means to be media literate. The reader can practice through the chapters how to access information, analyze and evaluate media messages, create message, reflect on your own consumption of media and act thoughtfully as media producers. The exercises and examples help instructors and students to learn through an inquiry process as they form their own opinion and master the craft of conveying media messages using various techniques. --Yonty Friesem, Columbia College Chicago This textbook, aimed at high school students and college undergraduates, develops key concepts about media literacy and includes discussion questions to promote critical thinking related to media consumption. Each chapter begins with ""Learning Outcomes."" Also included are background information about particular aspects of media literacy and ""Critical Questions"" encouraging reader reflection. Historical material in each chapter provides highlights about an ""Intellectual Grandparent"" who represents groundbreaking foundational ideas on, e.g., gaming, music, digital citizenship, privacy, economics, and politics. ""Create to Learn"" activities, again in each chapter, ask students to apply ideas presented in the book, which comprises four parts. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates. General readers. -- ""Choice Reviews"""

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Renee Hobbs is an internationally recognized authority on digital and media literacy education, a professor of communication studies and education, and the Director of the Media Education Lab at the Harrington School of Communication and Media at the University of Rhode Island. She has authored six books, among them Create to Learn: Introduction to Digital Literacy (Wiley, 2017), Exploring the Roots of Digital and Media Literacy Through Personal Narrative (Temple University Press, 2016), Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning (Corwin, 2011) and Reading the Media: Media Literacy in High School English (Teachers College Press, 2007). She is also lead editor of the forthcoming International Encyclopedia of Media Literacy (Wiley forthcoming, 2018) Hobbs co-directs the URI Graduate Certificate in Digital Literacy and teaches courses in communication studies, education, and library and information studies. A sought-after presenter and keynote speaker, Hobbs has offered professional development to K-12 and college educators, librarians and media professionals on four continents.

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