Applying Critical Thinking to Modern Media: Effective Reasoning about Claims in the New Media Landscape

by Lewis Vaughn

Book Overview

Applying Critical Thinking to Modern Media is the only book that teaches critical thinking skills by applying them to the consumption of modern media. Author Lewis Vaughn emphasizes the habits of mind that are prerequisites for making sense of today's media landscape--reasonable skepticism, metacognition, overview perspective, openness, intellectual humility, and responsibility--and develops these dispositions by showing students how to apply critical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190063408
• ISBN13: 9780190063405
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.1"