News Literacy gathers leading scholars educators and media makers to explore new approaches
to thinking about examining and evaluating news media and civic engagement around these
fundamental questions: What are the most pressing issues in news media and culture in a
converged digital and global media age? What are the best educational practices to foster
media literate understanding engagement and expression across borders across cultures and
across divides? The book will prepare future media practitioners (and citizens) to embrace new
media environments that can simultaneously empower their craft and their civic voice. This
means teaching not only about the various ways new technologies are used and to what end but
also how these tools can enable better engagement with audiences more dialog with communities
and a more nuanced understanding of how information is processed through new media platforms.
Such an approach can empower a more active collaborative and empowered information landscape
for the digital age.
