From: mwolf-m-AT-bgnet.bgsu.edu Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 00:20:22 -0500 Subject: CFP: "Media Literacy, Media Democracy" (16 August 2002) Please forward to potentially interested parties: 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 eduction 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-AT-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 --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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