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Corinne Dalelio

Corinne M. Dalelio, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Media, and Culture at Coastal Carolina University. After having worked professionally for eight years in education and outreach with a specialization in digital web design, she began teaching college in 2010. Her research focus is on the effects and impacts of interactive media and online communication. Her dissertation presented the development of an original method for mapping and visualizing informal, asynchronous, online discussions, which she has used for analyses in a variety of contexts, including fan communities, higher education, and citizen discussions of news. Her work has been published in the International Journal on E-Learning, the Journal of Digital and Media Literacy, Communication Teacher, and the International Journal of Knowledge, Technology, and Society.

Interactive Media and Society

In her book, Interactive Media and Society (which “Interact” serves, in part, as a repository of updates and addendums to), Dalelio analyzes how the rise of interactive media over the last few decades has had enormous impacts on every aspect of American society—the ways in which we organize, produce, consume, engage, entertain, and inform. Yet the vestiges of the one-way, broadcast model of the media industries continue to be primary, prominent, and persuasive in our culture, she argues. This book offers clarity and insight into the current media landscape by first outlining what it is that makes interactive media distinct from that which came before, and then identifying the harmonies and tensions between media systems—new and old—as they operate in various communicative contexts still in flux. These contexts include art, journalism, activism, marketing, and even the public sphere. Dalelio encourages readers to hone their critical digital literacy skills by supplying them with analytical concepts and theoretical principles that can be applied, regardless of how these tools change or evolve, ultimately enabling more thoughtful and meaningful interactive media usage and consumption. Elucidated throughout with interesting and relevant narrative examples, this book offers an engaging and straightforward presentation of the current scholarly understanding of these tools along with practical tips for navigating the challenges of our complex media ecosystem. Scholars of media studies, communication, sociology, and American studies will find this book particularly useful.

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