Author Profile: Michelle Ciccone

Michelle Ciccone is an educator, curriculum developer, and researcher of digital literacy, media literacy and critical digital citizenship. She is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Prior to graduate work, she was the technology integration specialist at a Massachusetts high school, and previous to that she developed the curriculum for and taught a digital literacy class to 6th, 7th, and 8th graders at a Massachusetts middle school. Michelle is affiliated faculty at the Media Education Lab at the University of Rhode Island, and in 2019 was awarded 3rd place in AEJMC’s Best Practices in Teaching Media Literacy competition.