2nd Edition
Everyday Media Literacy An Analog Guide for Your Digital Life
Introduction: Why media literacy and why you 1. Using: How your time with media can be more intentional 2. Spending: How the big, big business of media affects you and where you can profit 3. Thinking: How to protect your daily allotment of attention 4. Informing: How news media seek truth and shape reality 5. Verifying: How to find a fact and know when you’ve found one 6. Selling: How audiences are bought and sold and your role in the transaction 7. Analyzing: How media messages deliver meaning through content and creativity 8. Connecting: How media communicates culture and how cultures respond 9. Creating: How to create messages with purpose, expression and ethics 10. Protecting: How technology invades your privacy and how to protect it 11. Choosing: How to curate your media use to positively shape your sense of self 12. Participating: How technology supports and challenges civic engagement and democracy
Biography
Sue Ellen Christian is the Western Michigan University Presidential Innovation Professor in Communication (2021–2024). An author and former Chicago Tribune journalist, her past awards include Michigan Professor of the Year and WMU’s Distinguished Teaching Award. She is guest curator of Wonder Media: Ask the Questions!, an interactive museum exhibition focusing on news literacy and media literacy and the author of Overcoming Bias: A Journalist’s Guide to Culture and Context (2021).
