Media Is Us: Understanding Communication and Moving Beyond Blame

Exploring the nature of modern media, Friesem uses the fundamental principles of human communication to move away from the fear and blame that usually accompany discussions of new media technologies. The book employs the ACE model (from Awareness to Collaboration through Empathy) to build media literacy across professions and academic disciplines.

Elizaveta Friesem is an interdisciplinary scholar with an international background who works on problematizing common understandings of media, including its relationship to self, meaning, and power. She is an editor of the Journal of Media Literacy Education and an affiliated faculty of the Media Education Lab.