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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.
About the author
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.
