ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at how social media may be important in driving social change. The future of social media communication is likely to feature continued improvement of smaller and lighter hardware driven by advances in software programming. Facebook, for example, was said to be working on a way to read brain waves, and social media communication of the future could be physiological. The integration of media and information literacy produces an emphasis on schools and education, library usage, intercultural communication and global media. Educators need to respond to the larger framework of student media and social media use in a global and multimedia environment. In such a world, media and information literacy must be placed within an emerging multicultural education framework. Schools present one set of concerns for those wishing to understand media and information literacy, but libraries are a different context. The role of media librarianship has been transformed by technological and social change.
