[ecrea] CFP: “Media Literacy in Digital Age – Cultural, Economic and Political Perspective”

CALL FOR PAPERS


Under the High Auspices of the President of the Republic of Croatia 
Prof. Ivo Josipovic


Centre for Croatian Studies, Department of Communication Sciences, in 
Cooperation with the Electronic Media Council

Are Organizing an International Scientific Conference


“Media Literacy in Digital Age – Cultural, Economic and Political 
Perspective”


Zagreb, June 6-7, 2014


Media literacy - as a concept of empowering the citizens to efficiently 
deal with the world of traditional and new media, has been in the centre 
of interest of the international institutions, media experts and 
scientists for several decades already. UNESCO’s Declaration on Media 
Education set the framework in the early eighties. Nineteen countries 
accepted the implementation and improvement of the concept of education 
for the new digital age, but this did not result in the expected 
inclusion of media literacy in the national educational systems. The 
European Union documents emphasize the importance of media literacy for 
the accomplishment of economic development and social cohesion of Europe 
by the year 2010, with the focus on the necessity of development of 
national public policy for the education of citizens in media. European 
citizens, notwithstanding their age and gender should be media-literate 
for their active involvement in the exchange of cultural goods and 
digital economic processes. In the field of human rights, media literacy 
should contribute to the divergence of freedom in society, political 
culture and democracy, as well as to the strengthening of the economic 
system and creative discourse.


In the process, key role is played by the public media services, 
regulatory bodies and educational institutions which are invited to 
participate and enable the public a better understanding and awareness 
of the media contents, processes, technologies and the system of 
regulation of traditional media such as radio, television, printed media 
as well as the Internet and the converged media (Ofcom, 2004).


We proudly invite you to participate in the discussion on these issues 
and to send us your theoretical or empirical research for the conference 
„ Media Literacy in the Digital Age – Cultural, Economic and Political 
Perspective”.


Your scientific and professional contributions may involve the following 
issues:

- What is media literacy and what is its position in relation to 
information literacy, digital literacy, media education, and media culture?

- What is digital gap and is it possible the overcome it using media 
literacy?

- Media education for children, parents, teachers and kindergarten teachers.

- Media and information literacy and competitiveness on the European job 
market.

- The future of traditional media.

- The ethics of communication and the role of media literacy in the 
protection of privacy, the right to information and the freedom of 
public speech.

- Participatory journalism.

- The meaning of active use of media.

- The meaning of critical use of media and the ability to critically 
analyse media contents.

- The role of media literacy in the competitive digital economy.

- Media literacy as the base of social involvement and the quality of 
life of the citizens of European Union.

- The role of public media in the promotion of media literacy.

- The role of non-profit media in the promotion of media literacy.

- Media literacy in the educational system.

- Media literacy and the protection of copyright.

- Media literacy and the political culture of citizens.

- Media literacy and the crises of society.


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The official languages of the meeting are Croatian and English. 
Conference fee is 350 Croatian kunas (€50). Deadline for the submission 
of summaries in Croatian and English (250 – 300 words) is February 16, 
2014. Please send the summaries to (media.literacy /at/ hrstud.hr). We will 
notify the participants on the acceptance of the paper by March 15, 
2014. Full papers should be sent in English by June 30, 2014 to 
(media.literacy /at/ hrstud.hr). Papers will undergo double blind peer review 
and published in the conference collection of papers. Guide for authors 
will be available on the website of the conference. Selected papers will 
be published in the special edition of the Media Research journal. 
(indexed in Sociological Abstracts (SA), Linguistic and Language 
Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) and Social Planning/Policy & Development 
Abstracts (SOPODA), Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE), and 
SCOPUS).


The application form, information on accommodation, conference program 
and other information will be available on the Centre for Croatian 
Studies website www.hrstud.unizg.hr.


Conference Board: Nada Zgrabljic Rotar, Damir Hajduk, Jelena Jurišic, 
Danijel Labaš.


Scientific Programme Board: Nada Zgrabljic Rotar, Jelena Jurišic, 
Danijel Labaš, Tomislav Janovic, Ivan Buric, Blanka Jergovic i Damir Hajduk.


Organization Assistance: Ifigenija Racic, Anja Raguž, Lana Ciboci,  
Mirta Seferovic i Matea Horvat. IT Assistance: Tomislav Kneževic.

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