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

Mon Jan 14 06:30:22 GMT 2013




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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