Allison T. Butler

Allison T. Butler is a senior lecturer and associate chair in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she also serves as director of the Media Literacy Certificate Program. Her work focuses on critical media literacy, education, and civic learning, and she is vice president of the Media Freedom Foundation.

She is a co-author of The Media and Me: A Guide to Critical Media Literacy for Young People, a book that introduces critical media literacy concepts and skills to youth readers. Butler is the author of Educating Media Literacy: The Need for Critical Media Literacy and Teacher Education and The Judgment of Gender: How Women are Centered and Silenced in Pop Culture, and has written earlier books and chapters on media education, including studies of how young people engage with media and social networking.