Ethos, Ethics, and New Media: Becoming Effective Citizens in the 21st Century
Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)
Target Audience
Other
Location
Room 100
Proposal
See presentation description.
Presentation Description
In “Multiliteracies for a Digital Age”, (2004), Stuart Selber explains that technology and literacy are now necessarily interwoven as digital media increasingly replaces print media. Consequently, to effectively participate in democracy, Selber argues that citizens must become both informed consumers and savvy producers of digital media. Our panel considers some of the ways in which citizens currently navigate digital media to find sources of information to empower their decision-making and speculates on ways in which they could do so more effectively in the future.
Keywords
Stuart Selber, Technology, Literacy, Digital media consumption, Digital media production, Political participation, Decision-making, Citizenship
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Mullinax, Katie; Chadwick, Daniel; Clayson, Ashley; and Whittemore, Stewart, "Ethos, Ethics, and New Media: Becoming Effective Citizens in the 21st Century" (2010). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 66.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2010/2010/66
Ethos, Ethics, and New Media: Becoming Effective Citizens in the 21st Century
Room 100
See presentation description.
