[ecrea] Call for Papers merzWissenschaft 2013 - Growing-up in Complex Media Worlds

Call for Papers merzWissenschaft 2013

Subject: Growing-up in Complex Media Worlds –

New Media Technologies and Extended Media Ensembles and their role in 
the socialization of children and youths

Responsible editorial team: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Hoffmann (University of 
Siegen), Dr. Ulrike Wagner (JFF – Institute for Media Research and Media 
Education) and the merzWissenschaft (JFF) editorial department


Media pedagogic studies have established that the range of media, their 
contents and communication and interaction structures available to 
children and young people have effects and relevance to socialization of 
adolescents on various levels. In their confrontation with the realities 
and conditions of society the subjects use media to develop orientation, 
information and identity. Facing also the latest developments in digital 
media technologies, young people find more and more communicative and 
interactive media tools to establish relationships with others, create 
their own, individual works and bring those to the attention of others.

merzWissenschaft 2013 will research the question as to how socialization 
processes unfold with the media as well as in the media under the 
current conditions of society and media structures, and the issue of the 
challenges facing the researcher of these conditions. Our starting point 
is the hypothesis that the media are not only a complementary 
socialization entity next to family, peer group and school but are 
instead intertwined in various ways with any of those central 
socialization entities:

* The Media are relevant as a socialization instance in its own right, 
when focusing on orientation and reception of content, e.g. in the 
search and discussion of media templates in developing identity.
* Media ensembles are furthermore omnipresent in various ways in the 
family context, where they influence communication and collectivization 
processes. The family establishes the first point of contact with media, 
and the manner in which family members deal with media forms and media 
contents shape the children’s behavior in form of familiar rituals and 
routines, thus instigating family members to deal with various topics 
and forms together.
* In the peer group media content and media players have always been 
central elements in negotiating social and cultural affiliation as well 
as social and esthetic differentiation. Media preferences offer motive 
for communication between young people, and the current role of social 
networks is the pivotal point for communication and interaction between 
peers today.
* In the educational setting, informal competences of children and 
teenagers developed by using the media as a resource are still being 
widely disregarded by adults. The use of the media poses, however, an 
important reference point in informal and in institutional education 
processes – and thus socialization – of adolescents, and has to be 
considered as such.

merzWissenschaft 2013 invites you to submit your research papers 
examining processes of media engagement of adolescents against the 
background of different socialization theories. Focusing on latest 
developments in media technologies, the following questions are relevant:

* Which developments in the media practices of adolescents should be 
researched to allow a differential analysis of socialization? This can 
also detail how to assess the increasingly location- and 
time-independent availability of content and communication forms as well 
as the extended possibilities of mediatized articulation in relation to 
its socialization functions.
* Which methodic challenges do researchers face in studying the 
socialization relevance in an increasingly complex media repertoire of 
the subject?
* Which theoretical approaches are particularly suitable as a basic 
framework for socialization research in mediatized lifeworlds?

merzWissenschaft seeks to back up and push forward the scientific 
discussion in media pedagogy with the provision of qualified, 
international papers from various relevant disciplines.

The kind of papers sought:

* are based on empirical or theoretical research,
* offer new knowledge, aspects or approaches to the subject, and
* are explicitly focusing on one of the socialization dimensions or 
questions outlined above or formulating a problem within the context of 
this Call.

Interested authors are asked to submit an abstract of no more than 6,000 
characters (including spaces) to our editorial team ((merz /at/ jff.de)) by 18 
February 2013. Please ensure that the papers follow the merzWissenschaft 
layout guidelines. These are available at www.merz-zeitschrift.de (-> 
über merz -> für autoren).

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact Susanne 
Eggert by phone on +49.89.68989.120 or e-mail: (susanne.eggert /at/ jff.de)


Deadlines Overview.

18 February 2013: Submission of abstracts to (merz /at/ jff.de)

11 March 2013: Decision on acceptance/rejection of the abstracts

10 June 2013: Submission of papers

10 June – 26 July 2013: Peer review

August/September 2013: Revision period (several phases if needed)

Final submission: 23 September 2013

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Dr. Susanne Eggert
merz - Zeitschrift für Medien und Erziehung
Pfälzer-Wald-Str. 64
81539 München

fon: 089/68989-120
fax: 089/68989-111

www.merz-zeitschrift.de


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