Media Literacy: Books & eBooks

By comparing current abuses of the truth with abuses from the past, this book will help you better understand how we got to where we now are, see how we can move beyond the post-truth era, and develop highly practical skills for separating truth from lies.

Learn how to use the power of critical thinking to make sense of overwhelming and often subjective media by detecting ideology, slant, and spin at work.

The author, a seasoned Wikipedia contributor, breaks down the history of the free encyclopedia and explains the process of becoming an editor.

Provides lesson plans, resources, ideas, and inspiration to empower teachers and librarians to help students develop the critical thinking, information, and media literacy skills they need. Explores information evaluation, how to recognize scholarly sources, how technology mediates our experiences with information, the economics of information ecosystems, and more.

A former CIA analyst takes readers from the ancient Egyptians to the Founding Fathers to the present day to show the history and impact of misinformation over the centuries, sharing tips on how to spot fake news and how to make sense of the information we receive each day. Includes many photo illustrations, informative inserts, and sidebars containing interesting facts and trivia along with exercises to test what one has learned.

An indispensable guide to quickly telling fact from fiction on the internet. Learn how to identify red flags, get quick context, make better use of common websites like Google and Wikipedia, determine whether or not an article is by a reputable scholar, and more.

Explains how to separate fact from fantasy in the digital world, going deep into the Internet information jungle to cut a path through the trickery, fakery, and cyber skulduggery that the online world enables. Takes on everything from breaking news coverage to online dating and Wikipedia.

A collection of essays drawn from the many journals of the National Council of Teachers of English provides an excellent starting point for teachers who want to bring critical media literacy into their K-12 and college classrooms.

Presents practical and innovative ways to bring media literacy topics into ELA classrooms, integrating it into reading, writing, and interdisciplinary instruction.

Takes a developmental approach to media literacy, mapping out what early childhood educators need to do in the earliest years to lay the foundations for the sophisticated skills that we expect of media literate adults and digital citizens.

An open access textbook that introduces students to critical concepts of information literacy as defined for the information-infused and technology-rich environment in which they find themselves, helping them to examine their roles as information creators and sharers and enabling them to deploy related skills more effectively. Includes relatable case studies and scenarios, many hands-on exercises, and interactive quizzes.

An open access book that provides detailed tips for evaluating information found on the Internet. The four broad "moves" the author uses as a guide are: checking for previous work, going upstream to the source, reading laterally, and circling back.