[ecrea] CFP: Teaching Ethical Consumption

“Ethical Consumption?” Teaching Media 1(4): 2013

Teaching Media is dedicated to promoting a collaborative exchange and
dialogue between media studies scholars about contemporary approaches
to teaching and critically engaging with multi-modal media.

Call for Proposals:

We are unquestionably leading more technologically driven lives. New
communication technologies, from laptops to smart phones, emails to
text messages, are conceptualized as tools for uniting people and
ideas across distances, but at what cost? From the controversy over
Apple and its supplier Foxconn to concerns over the environmental
impact of producing and disposing of used technology, a number of
ethical issues have arisen over the conditions under which
technologies and other media products (like film production) are
produced. New media technologies are often marketed by producers and
developers as tools for building communities and connecting people.
Yet in some cases, like the use of conflict minerals in cellphones,
the production of these technologies are complicit in the destruction
and exploitation of communities around the world. In this issue, we
are seeking submissions that interrogate the intersection of
technology (or other products) production, labour/environmental
conditions and consumption.


Potential topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:

-Ethical obligations of technology consumers

-The New International Division of Labour

-The limits and possibilities of cultural and/or consumer citizenship

-The practices and problems of ethical consumption

-The fetishisation of technology

-Branding ethical consumption

-Obscured labour conditions

-Environmental impact of producing/disposing of technology

-The use of conflict minerals in phones

-New forms of solidarity with workers in the Global South

-New forms of labour/political activism


Teaching Media seeks 250-word summaries of teaching materials and
models from a variety of pedagogical perspectives. The summary should
include your general framework, a list of teaching materials and/or
assignments in the unit, and a short explanation of why your approach
is innovative. Please email all submissions, either as a word or PDF
document, (toteachingmedia.contact /at/ gmail.com). The Teaching Media
editorial board will choose three summaries and ask the submitters to
expand upon their abstract as part of a curated space on our site.
Those not chosen are encouraged to submit their materials to our
common space.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 11th, 2013

As we hope for continuing discussions and exchange as well as
contributions to Teaching Media we encourage you to visit our website
athttp://www.teachingmedia.org/

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