Exploring “media quiteracy”:
Why digital disconnection belongs in the media literacy curriculum
In this webinar, we’ll explore the ideas that valuable learning can happen through the action of refusing to take up new media, and that non-use of media technologies can be a legitimate enactment of media and digital literacy. This, though, can be antithetical to many media literacy education approaches, which tend to see use of media technologies as necessary and a foregone conclusion, and efforts to limit tech use as symptomatic of a moral panic. We’ll discuss how a “media quiteracy” approach can tap into media behaviors our students are likely already engaging in, and can foster the kind of collective action that has the potential to transform our media environments.
Date: Thursday, July 17
Time: 12pm ET |
Location: Online
Speaker: Michelle Ciccone 
Michelle is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a former K-12 technology integration specialist. Along with Katie Day Good, Professor of Communication at Calvin University, she co-authored “Media Quiteracy: Why Digital Disconnection Belongs in the Media Literacy Curriculum,” which was recently published in the Journal of Media Literacy Education.