Beschreibung:
Millennials and Media Ecology explores issues pertaining to millennials and digital media ecology and studies the cultural, pedagogical, and political environments millennials populate. The book questions whether millennials are properly understood as a heterogeneous group and if they demonstrate the ability to set out a path for themselves.
Part 1: Socio-Cultural Environments 1. Millennials' Generation, New Media, and Convergence Culture 2. The Promise of McLuhanism: Empowering or Misleading for Millennials Part 2: Pedagogical Environments 3. Student Consumers in the Age of Constant Connectivity: Legal and Economic Insights into Millennials' (and post-Millennials) Schooling and Education 4. Generationalism and Habits of Mind: Markers for a Critical Pedagogy 5. Digital Natives, Tragic Art, and the Birth of Technoethics Part 3: Political Environments 6. Millennial Engagement Myth-Busting: Active Disengagement and the Future of Digital Politics 7. Building and Engaging a Millennial News Audience: Observations from Germany 8. Polish Millennials and the New Media Environments: forming identities, constructing enemies, finding allies