Special Issue: Media Education goes Digital
Learning, Media and Technology incorporating Education, Communication and
Information
Edited by David Buckingham (Institute of Education, London) and Sara Bragg
(Open University)
Digital technology has potentially far-reaching implications for media
educators. On the one hand, digital media - including computer games, the
internet and mobile technologies - represent new objects of study, which
may challenge established approaches to media analysis. They require new
ways of understanding the relationships between media and 'audiences'; they
provide new forms and styles of realism and representation; and they
unsettle established notions of authorship and originality. To what extent
do the existing conceptual frameworks and practices of media education need
to be adapted or extended to take account of these new media?
On the other hand, digital technologies also offer considerable potential
for students to engage in creative media production. They remove many of
the constraints and obstacles posed by analogue methods; and they
potentially enable students' work to reach a much wider audience. The
ability to 'sample' and manipulate media in a range of forms may permit
greater scope for creativity and for critical interrogation - although they
also raise difficult questions about plagiarism, copyright and intellectual
property. These new media may encourage us to rethink the relationships
between 'theory' and 'practice' in media education. Yet creative media work
of this kind makes new demands on teachers and requires new forms of
classroom support; and digital media may also lead to new kinds of
corporate presence in the classroom.
For this special issue of Learning, Media and Technology incorporating
Education, Communication and Information, we are seeking papers on the uses
and potential of digital technologies for media education, at all levels
from primary schools to universities. Among other topics, we are interested
in:
* teaching about computer games and the internet;
* the use of mobile technologies in media education;
* creative production in digital media;
* critical theories of digital technology and their implications for the
media curriculum;
* the relationship between media education and ICT as a school subject;
* informal learning and digital technology;
* new media, cultural capital and 'digital divides' in the classroom;
* youth, subjectivity and digital media.
The guest editors will consider abstracts received by 30th April 2006; and
the date for final submissions is 31st August 2006. Papers will be
published in a Special Issue in mid-2007. Please send abstracts to Trish
Gladdis, clearly indicating that your submission is for the Special Issue.
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