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[ecrea] Call for Paper - Global Media Journal

Tue Jul 06 18:50:18 GMT 2010


>Call for Papers
>
>Global Media Journal-American Edition
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>www.globalmediajournal.com<http://www.globalmediajournal.com/>
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>Special Spring 2011 issue on
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>New Media, Informal Learning and Social Change
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>Deadline for Submissions: October 15, 2010
>
>Global Media Journal invites the submission of 
>essays, and scholarly articles that builds on 
>the relationship between new media, informal 
>learning and social change for the Spring 2011 
>issue. The guest editors, Payal Arora from 
>Erasmus University, and Matthew Kam from 
>Carnegie Mellon University are particularly 
>interested in articles that push the boundaries 
>on how people in diverse transnational and 
>cross-cultural environments learn to use new 
>media technologies for a wide spectrum of social 
>activity. With any novel tool, there are 
>intentions, as well as a range of actions and 
>consequences, often facilitated through the 
>informal processes of learning and teaching 
>within social groups. This edition seeks to 
>provide a wide perspective on such critical 
>interactions. Interdisciplinary work is 
>particularly encouraged as well as work situated 
>within marginalized and disadvantaged contexts 
>where such new media tools are being tried and 
>tested to enhance the human condition.
>
>Articles might address, but not be limited to, such topics as:
>
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>"         The play with new media through action and expression
>
>
>"         Social activism through new media technologies
>
>
>"         Challenges and opportunities 
>organizations, institutions and other 
>international development actors face in the 
>introduction, dissemination and/or usage of new 
>media tools intended for local empowerment
>
>
>"         The interplay of new media with 
>advertising, culture, education, politics, and economics.
>
>
>"         Theoretical frameworks and methods for 
>studying how new media, identity, cultural 
>contexts and practices, and social change relate to one another
>
>  Graduate student research:  In keeping with 
> the mission of the journal to provide 
> opportunities for graduate student publication, 
> this special issue of Global Media Journal will 
> have a graduate research section.
>
>For submission guidelines, please go to 
>http://lass.calumet.purdue.edu/cca/gmj/gmj_submission_guidelines.htm. 
>All papers must be submitted via electronic attachment.
>
>Please direct all inquires to Dr. Payal Arora, 
>Department of Media and Communication, Erasmus 
>University, (arora /at/ fhk.eur.nl)<mailto:(arora /at/ fhk.eur.nl)>.
>
>Graduate student submissions and queries should 
>be directed to Dr. Matthew Kam, Human-Computer 
>Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon 
>University, (mattkam /at/ cs.cmu.edu)<mailto:(mattkam /at/ cs.cmu.edu)>.
>
>The deadline for final submissions is October 15, 2010.
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