Conference; Due 2/1/16
Critical Media Literacy Conference
Coastal Georgia Center, Savannah, GA
Conference Date: March 26, 2016
Proposals Due: February 1, 2016
This multidisciplinary conference is designed to aid current
educational leaders, future teachers, youth, and other concerned
citizens in their understanding of the mass media and its impact on
the events that shape our daily lives. Promoting critical media
literacy is essential to excavating social inequalities and fostering
participatory democracy during the 21st century.
Call for Papers
Theme: Critical Media Literacy in the Age of Neoliberalism
In an era when global media conglomerates increasingly push for
policies that expand their influence over world markets, every field
of human activity, including education, is seen as a potential market.
This shift has widely been attributed to the rise of neoliberalism,
which we contend is not simply a way to classify state policies or a
new phase of late capitalism but as Wendy Brown (2015) notes, “a
governing rationality extending a specific formulation of economic
values, practices, and metrics to every dimension of human life” (p.
30). With the accompanying deregulation of commercial media and
communication markets and the proliferation of digital communication
technologies, the pedagogical potential of media is profound. The
pervasiveness of market ideologies, which have largely become ordinary
across the dimensions of human life, intensifies the need for critical
media literacies that urgently and critically redefine, redirect, and
recreate notions of knowledge, truth, and justice. This
multidisciplinary conference seeks educational leaders, future
teachers, youth, liberal arts educators, media/communication scholars
and others interested in understanding of the mass media and its
influence on education and our everyday lives. Promoting critical
media literacy is essential to exposing social inequalities and
fostering participatory democracy during the 21st century.
Toward that end, we enthusiastically call for paper proposals that
engage with media in ways that disrupt the normative discourses
perpetuated through market logics, promote way of thinking critically
about and with digital media culture, and present opportunities for
analyzing and interpreting the codes, conventions, and ideologies
implicit in our media saturated lives. Paper proposals might address
topics such as (but not limited to) the following:
How have various technologies employed by corporate conglomerates in
the mass media been used to foster critical understanding and
solidarity across the globe, rather than to promote conformity and
corporatism?
How do educators, youth, and concerned citizens provide more genuine
representations of global citizens through their own media products
including social media?
How do teacher educators integrate critical media studies in teacher
preparation programs?
How do current standards in education promote critical media literacy
in schools?
What do educators think about as they implement critical media
literacy in their PK-12 classrooms?
How has media literacy successfully fostered K-20 students’ critical
engagement with mass media?
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?
What are the consequences of being constantly connected to media?
How do current trends in media shape and change how we live?
How do the liberal arts contribute to understandings of media literacy?
How does critical media literacy impact media and communications in general?
What does a historical analysis of critical media literacy education
in the U.S. tell us about current and future trends in critical media
literacy education?
How might library scientists go about training critical media librarians?
Strand 1: Liberal Arts
Papers in this strand will explore the existing or potential
connection between the liberal arts and critical media inquiry.
Strand 2: Educational Foundations
Papers in this strand will explore interpretive, normative, and
critical approaches to examining media. Papers that address critical
pedagogy in online spaces are also highly desirable.
Strand 3: Curriculum Studies
How does the study of critical media literacy impact the continual
reconceptualization of curriculum theory and curriculum studies?
Strand 4: Critical Media Literacy New Inquiries
Papers in this strand will explore questions and issues related to
shifting definitions of literacy, critical media literacy, and
potential new intersections of inquiry.
To submit a proposal, visit
http://digitalcommons.
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