Digital Literacy ─ A Primer on Media, Identity, and the Evolution of Technology

In this book, authors Susan Wiesinger and Ralph Beliveau present readers with a comprehensive examination of digital literacy through historical, critical, and cultural lenses. The authors examine the social and cultural context in which changes in digital literacy affect and alter individual identities and relationships within groups. They cover the use of the web as a collaborative tool, the crafting and impact of digital identities, the digital appropriation of culture, and a wide variety of other related subjects. Susan Wiesinger is a faculty member of California State University in Chico. Ralph Beliveau is a faculty member of The University of Oklahoma. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Susan Wiesinger (PhD, Purdue University) is a professor of Journalism & Public Relations at California State University, Chico. She is the co-author of Media Smackdown: Deconstructing the News and the Future of Journalism (Peter Lang, 2013).
Ralph Beliveau is an associate professor in The Gaylord College of Journalism & Mass Communication at The University of Oklahoma. He holds a PhD from the University of Iowa and a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University.