[Discussion] [Fwd: CFP: Media Literacy, Media Democracy (16 August 2002)]

[Gonul Pultar]

>From: Matthew Wolf-Meyer <mwolf-m@bgnet.bgsu.edu>
> 
> Original essays are invited for a collection tentatively entitled "Media
> Literacy, Media Democracy: The Audience in the Information Age." The
> reader will be organized around several orienting questions: What is
> media literacy? What does it mean to be media literate? Why is media
> literacy important? What is the impact of the mass media? What are the
> political potentials of new media?
> 
> Ideally this collection will be suitable for use at both undergraduate
> and graduate levels in a number of disciplines, including media studies,
> cultural studies, gender studies, etc.
> 
> Possible submissions may address the above questions, but may also
> include such subjects as: analyses of media education projects and
> models; media criticism; the role and responsibility of educators, the
> media, parents, and the state; gender and media impact; youth and media
> impact; and issues of "new" and "hyper-" media.
> 
> Any number of methodological approaches are appropriate and not limited
> to: Sociology, Textual Analysis, Anthropology, Culture Studies,
> Historical Analysis, Psychology, Folklore, etc.
> 
> Please submit 2-page proposals or completed manuscripts (MLA style,
> 15-25 pages in length) to:
> 
> Reconstruction Reader Submissions
> 104 East Hall
> Bowling Green State University
> Bowling Green, OH 43403-0226
> shildebrandt@reconstruction.ws
> 
> If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us at the
> above email addresses.
> 
> The deadline for submission of completed papers is August 16th, 2002.
> 
> This collection co-edited by Sarah Hildebrandt and R. Stewart Varner.
> A complete version of this call for papers is available at:
> http://www.reconstruction.ws/projects/medialitcfp.htm
> 
> Matthew Wolf-Meyer, Editor
> Reconstruction: An Interdisciplinary Culture Studies Community
> http://www.reconstruction.ws
> <mwolf-m@bgnet.bgsu.edu>