Academic Exchange Quarterly
Winter 2009 Volume 13, Issue 4
Expanded issue up to 400+ pages.
Articles on various topics plus the following special sections.
Media Literacy
Feature Editor:
Lena Lee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
School of Human & Consumer Sciences Ohio University, OH
E-mail: leer2@ohio.edu
Focus:
As the technological and commercially-mediated environments in society have increased, young children and youth are much more exposed to many forms of media today than ever before. Considering the impact of various forms of media on young children and youth, it is important for scholars and practitioners worldwide to explore what it means to be “literate” in the 21st century. Given the diverse convergence of scholarship in domains such as media literacy/education, cultural studies, media studies, educational media and instructional technology, and critical pedagogy, this issue of AEQ seeks to make theoretical and practical connections among the commercial media, popular culture, educational technology and new forms of literacy among young children and youth.

Media literacy in this issue of AEQ is defined as the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, produce and communicate through a variety of media texts and forms. On a global scale, there exist many different perspectives on how young children and youth learn from media, as well as through their experiences of interacting with it, and what role these children, their parents, teachers, and community play in participating in such learning. This issue seeks to explore both theoretical and practical insight into the process of learning and teaching as it shapes (and, in turn, is shaped by) the lives of young children and youth, both inside and outside the classroom. Therefore, this issue is interested in how media literacy is enacted pedagogically as well as technologically within various educational settings. How can young children or youth participate in and learn through media? How can teachers use media literacy to empower their students? How can fostering media literacy shape the future of education and schooling? How can educators and policy makers prepare students to engage in more democratic and ethical uses and designs of media and their associated technologies?

Who Should Submit:
This issue of AEQ invites submissions from scholars, researchers, teachers, and teacher educators at all levels and across disciplines, who have studied media literacy and the uses of specific educational media and technologies for young children and youth, and have encouraged the development of media literacy for young children and youth in their classrooms. This issue encourages submissions of a variety of high quality manuscripts which deal with important socio-political, cultural, and international perspectives in relation to media literacy. Please identify your submission with the keyword: MEDIA

Submission deadline:
any time until the end of August 2009; see details for other deadline options like early, regular, and short.

Submission Procedure:
http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufen1.htm   

PROMO

CFP list (U Penn)
NCTE list-servs:
	http://www.ncte.org/lists/media/ 
	http://www.ncte.org/lists/college-talk/ 
	http://www.ncte.org/lists/ncte-talk/ 
	http://www.ncte.org/lists/cccc-talk/ 
	http://serv1.ncte.org/lists/ncte-theory/
National College English Association (CEA) Annual Conference
Center for Media Literacy mailing list
Theoretical Issues in Media and Cultural Studies 
	LISTSERV@MRELAY1.SOAS.AC.UK
Children and Media newsletter 
	ECME-NEWSLETTER@LISTS.CME.ORG
Feminist Media Studies 
	FEMMEDIA@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Oxford University Press: Film, Media, and Cultural Studies News 
	FILMMEDIANEWS-L@WEBBER.OUP.CO.UK
H-NET List for Scholarly Studies and Uses of Media 
	H-FILM@H-NET.MSU.EDU 
H-NET list for Multimedia and New Technologies in Teaching 
	H-MMEDIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU
Media Literacy Project 
	MEDIA_LITERACY_PROJECT@LIST.TETN.NET 
Media-L list 
	listserv@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
American Association of School Librarians
        AASLFORUM@ala.org
        elms@ala.org
International Society for Technology in Education
        iste@iste.org
Association of Library and Information Science Educators
        jesse@listserv.utk.edu
Center for Media Literacy
        cml@medialit.org
Alliance for a Media Literate America
        Amla@ccicrosby.com
Association for Educational Communications and Technology
        MediaTech@aert.org
        TeacherEd@aert.org
        MIM@aert.org
        R&T@aert.org
Computer Using Educators
        cueinc@cue.org
TechnologyCurriculum@yahoogroups.com
See all published MEDIA articles.

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