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"Visual displays are extremely powerful tools, which means manipulation of these tools can spread inaccurate information and influence public perception. The sheer volume of images making their way through the Internet requires viewers to have a higher level of visual literacy than in years before in order to prevent manipulation. In this article you'll learn The types of displays that can be misleading What can be done to make visual displays less misleading"

"The future of digital culture-yours, mine, and ours-depends on how well we learn to use the media that have infiltrated, amplified, distracted, enriched, and complicated our lives. How you employ a search engine, stream video from your phonecam, or update your Facebook status matters to you and everyone, because the ways people use new media in the first years of an emerging communication regime can influence the way those media end up being used and misused for decades to come. Instead of confining my exploration to whether or not Google is making us stupid, Facebook is commoditizing our privacy, or Twitter is chopping our attention into microslices (all good questions), I've been asking myself and others how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and above all mindfully. This book is about what I've learned."