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CALL FOR PAPERS:

AEQ: Academic Exchange Quarterly
Spring 2004, Volume 8, Issue 1
Expanded issue up to 400+ pages.
Articles on various topics plus the following special section

SPECIAL TOPIC: Media Literacy

Focus:

Despite the increasing body of theoretical and anecdotal work seeking to

define and examine the position of media in society, many in the academy

continue to balk at studying the role of media in the lives of students.

The study of media has been neglected in part because, unlike
traditional
texts, media have been perceived as undermining cultural standards.  The

connections, the argument follows, between media and popular culture,
between media literacy and critical pedagogy, or between popular culture
and
post-modern theory are less than rigorous.  This issue of AEQ will
answer
this objection.  Indeed, the predominance of media in our lives and our
students' lives demands that we reconsider what it means to be literate
in
today's world.  To ignore the media is to ignore a powerful set of
opportunities for the classroom.

Our collection for AEQ will examine theoretical and practical approaches
for
integrating and creating media literacy into the classroom.  The
attendant
issues are as various as our media.  How can teachers use critical media

literacy to empower students?  How can we prepare students to recognize,
to
engage, and to interrogate the power structures that they encounter
inside
and outside the classroom?  And, how can we provide students with the
language, skills, and methodology that ready them for these encounters?

Recognizing that many teachers are unfamiliar or uncomfortable with
teaching
about the media, we seek essays that offer practical insights about
developing media literacy in our students.  In addition, we are
particularly
interested in essays that examine student writing as the site of the
critical encounter between students, texts, and the world--that is, as
site
for integrating media studies and developing critical media literacy.

Who Should Submit:

We encourage submissions from scholar-teachers at all levels and across
disciplines who have incorporated media study or the teaching of media
literacy into their classrooms.

Please identify your submission with the key work: Media-Lit
Submission deadline
ß Regular deadline: any time until the end of November 2003. All
accepted
submissions will be published in this Spring issue.
ß Short deadline: December or January. All accepted submissions will be
published in this Spring issue or in later issues.
Submission Procedure:

http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufen1.htm
or
http://www.higher-ed.org/AEQ/rufen1.htm

For additional information, please contact one (or all) of the editors
for
this special feature

Dr. Peter Kratzke
Program for Writing and Rhetoric University of Colorado at Boulder
E-mail: Peter.Kratzke@Colorado.EDU

Dr. Ann R. Hawkins
Department of English Texas Tech University
E-mail: annhawkins@cox.net

Dr. Jeraldine R. Kraver
Department of English University of Northern Colorado
E-mail: jeraldine.kraver@unco.edu