[Commlist] CfP: Media and information literacy and sustainable futures

  Special Issue "Media Education and Sustainable Futures"

A special issue of /Sustainability/ 
<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability> (ISSN 2071-1050). This 
special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Education and 
Approaches 
<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/sections/education_and_approaches>".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: *29 February 2020*.


    Special Issue Editors

/Guest Editor /
*Dr. Divina Frau-Meigs*

Digital Humanities Dpt, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 75005, France
Website <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nUsYSzsAAAAJ&hl=en> | 
E-Mail 
<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Media_Education_Sus> 

/Guest Editor /
*Dr. Irma Velez*

Department of Spanish, ESPE, Sorbonne University, Paris 75016, France
Website <https://sites.google.com/site/irmavelez07/home> | E-Mail 
<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Media_Education_Sus> 



    Special Issue Information

Sustainability can be construed in many different ways. Currently, much 
attention has been paid to the viability of business models, demographic 
changes in audiences, and their migration into online communities. In 
this context, Media Education (ME) has been used as a tool for “coping” 
with transversal insertion in subject matters; however, opportunities 
for its full-scale implementation in the curricula of schools and 
universities are rare.

However, more recently, information opportunities (hyper-connectedness, 
data reporting analysis, reliability, consistency and accuracy, improved 
data storage, data management and retrieval, innovation) and information 
disorders (radicalization, “fake news”, hate speech) have caught centre 
stage. Changes in education are thus becoming crucial, with ME being 
presented as one of the soft skills of the 21^st century. Information is 
crucial to sustainability (the coordination of activities, the 
re-engineering of work practices, public accountability, networking, 
environmental reporting, creativity). In this new context, 
sustainability requires, thus, a new information ecology. In 1987, the 
Brundtland report described sustainable development based on the three 
interconnected dimensions of environment, society, and economy. This new 
context calls for information as a fourth axial dimension that 
structures all of the others. This information ecology also calls for 
open public spaces to express major concerns for the future, such as 
climate change, digital pollution, (cyber)terrorism, and forced mobility.

This Special Issue proposes to examine the nature of this change and 
suggest ways forward. It will focus on new attitudes towards 
information, including the greater need for critical approaches that 
allow us to share it more than consume it. In particular, it will 
examine the potential shift from sustainability to 
sustaining/sustainable democracy as well as the educational challenges 
that come along with it, in particular teacher and student training to 
participate in public discourse and express their views (including by 
creating their own media). New avenues to move beyond passive media 
consumption and enable active civic engagement will be explored.

How can ME contribute to sustainable democratic societies? What are the 
information needs of learners, citizens, and their communities to ensure 
a sustainable future? How are we to understand the role of ME in shaping 
global issues, such as the environment, immigration, health, and related 
education in gender, race, and social inclusion? What are the challenges 
for media educators, decision-makers, and the media themselves?

Contributors are invited to deal with one or more of the following themes:

  * criteria and indicators for sustainable Media Education (ME)
    (capacity building, resilience, empathy);
  * the ability to modify resources and resource formats;
  * “old-fashioned” media and their utility;
  * MIL, sustainable accessibility;
  * issues of localization (such as cultural relevance and language) and
    content contribution and transfer;
  * learner skills and mindset (engagement, participation, contribution);
  * implementation of practices that replicate educational resources and
    invite continuous stakeholder improvement;
  * sharing knowledge within and across mass and social media;
  * media education and its business model;
  * the role of actors (teachers, libraries, platforms, etc.);
  * the relevance of inclusiveness, openness, and interconnectedness;
  * ME’s contribution to the information commons;
  * multi-stakeholderism and global change;
  * transliteracy for sustainable futures (mobility, intercultural
    stakes, etc.); and
  * ME and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Papers can be theoretical or experience-based. Preference will be given 
to ethical and critical approaches.

Dr. Divina Frau-Meigs
Dr. Irma Velez
/Guest Editors/

*Manuscript Submission Information*

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com 
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to go to the submission form 
<https://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/?journal=sustainability>. 
Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be 
peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the 
journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special 
issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short 
communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short 
abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for 
announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be 
under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference 
proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a 
single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant 
information for submission of manuscripts is available on the 
Instructions for Authors 
<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/instructions> page. 
/Sustainability/ <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/> is an 
international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by 
MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors 
<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/instructions> page before 
submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) 
<https://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/> for publication in this open access 
<https://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/> journal is 1700 CHF (Swiss 
Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. 
Authors may use MDPI's English editing service 
<https://www.mdpi.com/authors/english> prior to publication or during 
author revisions.


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