1st Edition

Millennials and Media Ecology Culture, Pedagogy, and Politics

Edited By Anthony Cristiano, Ahmet Atay Copyright 2020
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

Millennials and Media Ecology explores issues pertaining to millennials and digital media ecology and studies the cultural, pedagogical, and political environments such heterogeneous generation populates. The book questions whether millennials are properly understood as a heterogeneous group, particularly by the institutions and agencies that target them, and whether they are demonstrating the... Read more

Part 1: Socio-Cultural Environments

1. Millennials Generation, New Media, and Convergence Culture

Ahmet Atay

2. The Promise of McLuhanims: Empowering or Misleading for Millennials

Anthony Cristiano

Part 2: Pedagogical Environments

3. Student Consumers in the Age of Constant Connectivity: Legal and Economic Insights into Millennials’ Schooling and Education

Daniele Bertolini

4. Generationalism and Habits of Mind: Markers for a Critical Pedagogy

Star Muir

5. Digital Natives, Tragic Art, and the Birth of Technoethics

Jason C. Robinson

Part 3: Political Environments

6. Millennial Engagement Myth-Busting: Active Disengagement and the Future of Digital Politics

Alison Novak

7. Building and Engaging a Millennial News Audience: Observations from Germany

Leif Kramp and Stephan Weichert

8. Polish Millennials and the New Media Environments: forming identities, constructing enemies, finding allies

Iga Mergler

Biography

Anthony Cristiano lectures in culture and media studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in the Digital Media, Culture, and Communication Studies programs. His research pertains to media practices and ethics. He is the author of The Question of Ethics: from print media to social media (2017), and the forthcoming "AI and Ultimate Reality" article (University of Toronto Press).





Ahmet Atay is Associate Professor of Communication at the College of Wooster. His research revolves around media and cultural studies, and critical intercultural communication. He is the author of Globalization’s Impact on Identity Formation: Queer Diasporic Males in Cyberspace (2015) and the co-editor of 7 books. His scholarship appeared in number of journals and edited books.