This book is an adaptation of five open textbooks:

• Media & Society: Critical Approaches by R. Nichols, A. Nutter, E. Moore. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 license. Chapters from Media and Society: Critical Approaches used include Chapters 1-4, 6, 7 and 8.4.
• Media, Society, Culture and You by Mark Poepsel and Leanne Page. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 license. Chapters in this book from Media, Society, Culture and You include: Chapter 1: Media, Society, Culture and You, Chapter 2: Digital Culture and Social Media,
• Humans R Social Media by Diana Daly; Jacquie Kuru; Nathan Schneider; Alexandria Fripp; and iVoices Media Lab. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 license. Chapters in this book from Humans R Social Media include: Old to New Media, Wellness, Algorithms: Invisible, Irreversible and Infinite, and Equity and Gender.
• Technology, Media Litreracy and the Human Subject  by Richard Lewis. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 license. Chapters in this book from Technology, Media Literacy and the Human Subject include “Situating Media Literacy” and Introduction: Problematizing our Relations with Media Technologies, pp 1-26.
• The American Journalism Handbook by R. Zamith. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 license. Chapters in this book from The American Journalism Handbook include: Conceptual Foundations, Journalism Economics, Preparing a News Story, Media Effects, Influences on Journalistic Media and Future of Journalism

Selected chapters from the five books were combined, reorganized, and edited for accessibility, but no material changes have been made to them.

Because the books use different citation systems, this adapted version leaves each system in place.