Technology, Media Literacy, and the Human Subject
Subtitle: a posthuman approach
By: Richard S. Lewis
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781800641860; 9781800641877; 9781800641846
Subjects: Media literacy; Éducation aux médias
Description: What does it mean to be media literate in today's world? How are we transformed by the many media infrastructures around us? We are immersed in a world mediated by information and communication technologies (ICTs). From hardware like smartphones, smartwatches, and home assistants to software like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat, our lives have become a complex, interconnected network of relations. Scholarship on media literacy has tended to focus on developing the skills to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media messages without considering or weighing the impact of the technol.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-237) and index.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 07, 2021).
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: 1. Introduction: Problematizing our Relations with Media Technologies / Richard S. Lewis; title: Part I. Situating the Interdisciplinary Concepts. 2. Situating Media Literacy Download Richard S. Lewis ; 3. Understanding the Medium Through the Technological Relation / Richard S. Lewis ; 4. The Posthuman: Situating the Subject in Human-Tech Relations / Richard S. Lewis; title: Part II. Developing a Posthuman Approach: A Framework and Instrument 5. Developing the Intrasubjective Mediating Framework / Richard S. Lewis; title: 6. Developing an Instrument to Leverage the Framework / Richard S. Lewis ; 7. Conclusion / Richard S. Lewis; title: References; title: List of Tables and Illustrations; title: Index.