[ecrea] CFP: Transmedia Skills - International Journal of Transmedia Literacy.

The International Journal of Transmedia Literacy (IJTL) announces a call 
for papers for the second issue, dedicated to the topic “Transmedia 
Skills. Education and Learning in the Age of Emerging Competencies”.


Nowadays, the use of collaborative media engages people in a continuous 
process of learning and exchange, favouring the emergence of new skills 
and competencies that no longer belong only to the traditional assets of 
literacy, such as schools and families.

Every generation develops blended competences under the influence of new 
tools and communication frameworks. On the one hand, most people have 
started to define their own social life-streams using the Internet, 
social networks, and personal (wearable) devices in different 
environments: at school, at work, at home, for leisure and spare time. 
On the other hand, technologies and digital-based learning represent 
just one side of the education process. The comfort that (the uses of) 
technologies offer often creates a false sense of successful education 
if technologies are not adopted in a transversal way to properly support 
learning activities and the growth of transdisciplinary competencies.


In this issue of the IJTL we invite submissions that focus on how 
education, in both formal and informal learning environments, can 
rethink, reconsider, and reinvent technologies, social practices, 
traditional environments and collaborative media, in order to offer 
transversal learning strategies favouring emerging competences and 
transmedia skills.

On the one hand, we are interested in understanding how the acquisition 
of the so-called basic skills and competences can be attained using 
transmedia practices and how it impacts on the paradigm structure of the 
education system. On the other hand, we would like to explore and 
investigate how (young) people grapple with transmedia practices in 
formal and informal learning environments and to specifically identify 
informal learning strategies and practices they use outside school.

Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts that:

  * Foster theoretical knowledge of new learning settings and transmedia
    skills;
  * Present empirical findings on the use of transmedia in education;
  * Explore and discuss ongoing research and/or innovative case studies
    on transmedia and education;
  * Present designs, productions, models or frameworks in relation to
    transmedia skills, emerging competences, and education;
  * Analyse the role of teachers and other workers in different learning
    settings.

Possible topics to consider, in relation to education and transmedia 
skills, include (but are not limited to):

  * Critical aspects of technological, conceptual, and institutional
    elements currently at play in education for the acquisition of
    (transmedia) skills;
  * Defining and redefining transmedia competences in education;
  * How transmedia competences could/do benefit/boost formal learning
    processes;
  * Production and design of new learning processes, methods, and
    frameworks;
  * How teachers and students have responded to the opportunities of
    non-linear delivery, multimodal (learning) tools, and participatory
    culture made possible by the digital environment;//
  * //How teens are consuming, producing, sharing, and learning in
    digital and blended environments;
  * What role social networks and collaborative media have in learning
    processes;
  * Gaming and ludic aspects of education processes;
  * Development and use of apps for teaching practices.

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*Practical matters*

Contributions are encouraged from authors with different areas of 
expertise and interest in transmedia literacy and culture and in education.

Full articles are due on December 15, 2016 (3,000 – 6,000 words).

Articles should comply with the journal’s author guidelines.

Submissions should be sent online via the Open Journal System at 
http://www.ledonline.it/transmedialiteracy.


For further information or questions about the issue, please contact the 
co-editors: Dianora Bardi (Impara Digitale), Matteo Ciastellardi 
(Politecnico di Milano), Giovanna Di Rosario (Université Catholique de 
Louvain) at (info /at/ transmedialiteracy.net) 
<mailto:(info /at/ transmedialiteracy.net)>.


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The /International Journal of Transmedia Literacy /is a double-blind 
peer-reviewed open-access international publication devoted to critical 
works on new narratives, social intercreativity, new forms of 
engagement, informal learning, and cross-media education.

The Journal seeks to describe, analyse, reflect upon, and discuss the 
concept of transmedia as a process of emerging literacy, taking into 
consideration the epistemological spheres of participation, production, 
and transmission of knowledge and culture, the crisis of authorship, the 
new dimension of participation and relationships offered by the Web, the 
liquid structures of narrative spaces and the intercreativity favoured 
by network narratives and collaborative digital environments.

Journal Website: http://www.ledonline.it/transmedialiteracy
Contacts: (info /at/ transmedialiteracy.net)


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