Biography
Katie Day Good is a media educator and researcher of emerging technologies in education and everyday life. She is the author of (MIT Press, 2020) and the recipient of the 2020 from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Good's research and teaching are animated by interests in intercultural learning, media literacy, neighborliness and faith in the digital age, and online/offline wellbeing.
Her writing can be found in academic journals, such as New Media & Society and the Journal of Media Literacy Education, as well as in national outlets such as The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Washington Post, and Wired.
A former Fulbright-mtvU Scholar to Mexico and National Security Education Program Fellow to India, Good enjoys helping students explore their interests in media and develop their skills for communicating in an interconnected world.
Education
Ph.D. - Media, Technology, and Society. Northwestern University, 2015.
M.A. - Media, Technology, and Society. Northwestern University, 2010.
B.S. - Anthropology, Loyola University Chicago, 2007
B.A. - International Studies, Loyola University Chicago, 2007
Professional Experience
2024-Present - Associate Professor of Communication, 麻豆区
2022-2024 - Associate Professor of Strategic Communication, Miami University
2015-2022- Assistant Professor of Strategic Communication, Miami University
2016-Present - Faculty Research Associate, Radio Preservation Task Force, U.S. Library of Congress
Selected Academic Publications
Book
Bring the world to the child: Technologies of global citizenship in American education. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2020.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Good, K. D. and Ciccone, M. (2025). Media quiteracy: Why digital disconnection belongs in the media literacy curriculum. Journal of Media Literacy Education 17(1): 150-165.
Good, K. D. and Hof, B. (2023). Towards global and local histories of educational technology. Learning, Media and Technology 49(1): 1-7.
Peck, A. & K. D. Good (2020). When paper goes viral: Handmade signs as vernacular materiality in digital space. International Journal of Communication 14, 626-648.
Good, K. D. (2019). Sight-seeing in school: Visual technology, virtual experience, and world citizenship in American education, 1900-1930. Technology and Culture 60(1), 98-131.
*Winner of the Covert Award in Mass Communication History, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Good, K. D. (2017). Listening to pictures: Converging media histories and the multimedia newspaper. Journalism Studies 18(6), 691-709.
Good, K. D. (2016). Radio鈥檚 forgotten visuals. Journal of Radio and Audio Media 23(2), 364-368. Special issue on the Library of Congress Radio Preservation Task Force.
Good, K. D. (2016). Making do with media: Teachers, technology, and tactics of media use in American classrooms, 1919-1946. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 16(1), 75-92.
Good, K. D. (2013). From scrapbook to Facebook: A history of personal media assemblage and archives. New Media & Society 15(4), 557-573.
Good, K. D. (2013). Why we travel: Picturing global mobility in user-generated travel journalism. Media, Culture & Society 35(3), 295-313.
Selected Public Writings
Good, K. D. (2025) Bring Back the Blue-Book Exam. Chronicle of Higher Education.
Good, K. D. (2024). Sharing our screens. Christian Scholar鈥檚 Review Digital.
Good, K. D. (2020). Bundle up! This year鈥檚 best tech might be a good coat. Wired.com.
Good, K. D. (2020). School鈥檚 online, but high-tech bells and whistles can鈥檛 replace good teaching.鈥 The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/04/07/schools-now-online-high-tech-bells-whistles-cant-replace-good-teaching/
