Digital Dieting

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Without the skills of media and information literacy, students and citizens wade through low quality online information that fills their day yet does not enable intellectual challenge, imagination and questioning. The author probes the social, political, and academic difficulties in managing large quantities of low quality information. But this book does not diagnose a crisis. Instead, it provides strategies to develop intellectual fitness that sorts the important from the irrelevant and the remarkable from the banal