[ecrea] CFP_MEDA_STORYTELLING

Media and Education in the Digital Age - MEDA

Call for Papers: Storytelling and Education in the Digital Age: 
Challenges and Opportunities

We seek contributions for a collection of essays about storytelling in 
21st century education.
Successful submissions will engage explicitly with at least three sets 
of questions concerning the functions of storytelling in education, the 
changes brought about by the so called ‘digital revolution’, and the 
risks and opportunities associate to these changes.

* The functions of storytelling - What are the functions of storytelling 
in education? Why is storytelling important on educational grounds?
* Change – what is the impact of digital technology on the functions of 
storytelling in education? Do these changes create conditions in 
education and in the broader society that require fundamental changes in 
the nature and processes of storytelling? To what extent, for example, 
does the incredulity of the ‘postmodern condition’ affect the social and 
educational functions of storytelling? Or are these changes overrated 
when it comes to the fundamental functions of this communicative practice?
* Risks, challenges and opportunities – What are the risks, challenges 
and opportunities associated with the impact of digital technologies on 
the traditional functions of storytelling?


This collection is the second book project of the research programme 
Media and Education in the Digital Age – MEDA.
Coherently with the mission of MEDA, in this collection the emphasis 
should be on practical problems, with conceptual or theoretical issues 
addressed only when strictly necessary to clarify the nature of these 
problems. This collection is primarily designed for a composite audience 
of media and communication students, teachers and educators. Our main 
goal is to gather relevant information, knowledge and opinion concerning 
the past, present and future educational role of storytelling in the 
digital age. We thus invite prospective authors to avoid jargon, to be 
explicit about the assumptions and the methodological workings of the 
approaches used in empirical studies, and the conceptual basis of the 
arguments used in the discussion of relevant problems.

Please also note the following:
Submission package should include an abstracts not exceeding 500 words, 
and a one-page CV containing affiliation and personal contact details.
Deadline for submissions: Monday, November 15, 2014.
Please send to: (matteo.stocchetti /at/ arcada.fi)

For more information on the programme ‘Media and Education in the 
Digital Age – MEDA’, please visit http://rdi.arcada.fi/meda/en/

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Matteo Stocchetti (PhD)
Adjunct Professor
Political Communication
Arcada University of Applied Sciences
Jan-Magnus Jansson pl 1
00550 Helsinki - Finland
(matteo.stocchetti /at/ arcada.fi)
Media and Education in the Digital Age - MEDA






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