Mediactive

by Dan Gillmor

Overview

We're in an age of information overload, and too much of what we watch, hear and read is mistaken, deceitful or even dangerous. Yet you and I can take control and make media serve us -- all of us -- by being active consumers and participants. Here's how. Published under a Creative Commons license.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780984633609
Publisher:	Dan Gillmor
Publication date:	12/09/2010
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.47(d)
Age Range:	12 Years

About the Author

Dan Gillmor has a deep background in media and journalism. A longtime newspaper columnist and author of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, Dan has been a founder, investor and advisor in new-media companies. He's currently director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Dan is also a columnist for Salon.com, writing about technology and media.

Dan's previous book, We the Media, explained the rise of citizen media and why it matters. More about Dan at http://dangillmor.com/about.