Media Literacy

Smartphones, tablets, computers at home, computers at school, computers at the library, augmented reality, video games…the list of new platforms that…

Earlier this week President Barack Obama announced his decision to change the name of North America’s tallest peak from Mt. McKinley to Denali, the native…

You’ve likely seen Facebook or Twitter posts from friends or family members that link to information that seems almost but not quite plausible. Those…

New types of media, including social media, are changing the media landscape, but aren’t changing the need for media literacy.“We define media literacy at…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 8, 2011 - Only half of the students in my media ethics class showed up on Thursday because the…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 1, 2011 - By now, nearly everyone agrees that the mainstream media have a distinctly liberal…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 19, 2009 - Eric McLuhan writes, lectures and teaches about media ecology, something that media…