Introduction to the Volume on Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility

Contributing Organization(s): MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Initiative, The


Author(s)/Creator(s): Miriam J. Metzger; Andrew J. Flanagin

Publishing Date: 2008-01-01

Issue Areas: Children and Youth; Media; Education and Literacy

Ownership/Rights Info: Copyright 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Published under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works Unported 3.0 license.

This chapter argues that understanding credibility is particularly complex -- and consequential -- in the digital media environment, especially for youth audiences, who have both advantages and disadvantages due to their relationship with contemporary technologies and their life experience. The chapter explains what is, and what is not, new about credibility in the context of digital media and discusses the major thrusts of current credibility concerns for scholars, educators, and youth.

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Available at: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/dmal.9780262562324.001


Intended Audience: Advocates; College/University Professors; General Public; Researchers; Teachers-middle school; Teachers-high school

Type/Format: Whitepaper

Language code: English

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