Millennials and Media Ecology: Culture, Pedagogy, and Politics

ISBN-13: 9781032177816 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 200 str.

Anthony Cristiano; Ahmet Atay

Opis

Millennials and Media Ecology explores issues pertaining to millennials and digital media ecology and studies the cultural, pedagogical, and political environments millennials populate. The book questions whether millennials are properly understood as a heterogeneous group and if they demonstrate the ability to set out a path for themselves.

Spis treści

Part 1: Socio-Cultural Environments  1. Millennials' Generation, New Media, and Convergence Culture  2. The Promise of McLuhanism: Empowering or Misleading for Millennials  Part 2: Pedagogical Environments  3. Student Consumers in the Age of Constant Connectivity: Legal and Economic Insights into Millennials’ (and post-Millennials) Schooling and Education 4. Generationalism and Habits of Mind: Markers for a Critical Pedagogy  5. Digital Natives, Tragic Art, and the Birth of Technoethics  Part 3: Political Environments  6. Millennial Engagement Myth-Busting: Active Disengagement and the Future of Digital Politics  7. Building and Engaging a Millennial News Audience: Observations from Germany  8. Polish Millennials and the New Media Environments: forming identities, constructing enemies, finding allies

O autorze

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.