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Lewis University is pleased to announce its first annual Critical
Media Literacy Conference to be held on April 6th, 2013 at Lewis
University in Romeoville, IL.
This will be a dynamic event featuring two outstanding keynote
speakers (Dr. Carl James and Ira Shor) as well as a multitude of
talented educators and academics wishing to share their work in the
field of Critical Media Literacy.
The theme of this conference is: Promoting Critical Awareness and
Social Justice Through Critical Media Literacy
We enthusiastically call for proposals, presentations and workshops
that urgently and critically redefine, redirect, and recreate notions
of knowledge, truth, and justice through and with critical media
pedagogy. Proposals might address topics such as (but not limited to)
the following:
●What are specific ways in which the corporate and political elite use
the mass media to promulgate their ideologies and practices?
●How does the mass media perpetuate divisions amongst social groups
across the globe?
●What role has the mass media played in the elite's continued "war
against youth?"
●How can educators, youth, and concerned citizens provide more genuine
representations of global citizens through their own media products?
●How has media literacy successfully fostered K-20 students' critical
engagement with mass media?
●How have the various technologies employed by corporate conglomerates
in the mass media been used to foster critical understanding and
solidarity across the globe, rather than been employed to promote
conformity and corporatism?
●How can various critical theories enrich our understanding of the
mass media in the age of neoliberalism?
●What are some ways in which media literacy can be applied to the new
demands and concerns of today's digitized culture?
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