[ecrea] Call for Papers: Children's Media and Texts in a Mediatized World

Call for Papers:
Children's Media and Texts in a Mediatized World

					Conference at Aarhus University, Centre for Children's Literature and
Media
30 May ­ 1 June 2017

					Children and young people live in a mediatized world in which
literature, other visual
and verbal texts, media and platforms converge and coalesce. Established
notions of
producers and users, target groups, genres and literary forms and
experiences are
thereby challenged.

					Users and readers are ascribed with new forms of agency, while at the
same time
children confront an increased commercialization and demands for
standardized
schooling and academic achievements.

					At this conference we wish to examine these challenges, bringing
together scholars from
children's literature studies, media studies and adjoining fields. For
instance, children¹s
literature, in its many manifestations, must be seen as tightly interwoven
with the broad-
spectre media cultures in which children and young people engage.

					Children¹s literature and media must be understood in the light of
contemporary
developments, which enable new, cross-media publishing forms, as well as
new modes
of interaction and engagement between writers and readers, users and
producers.
Children and young people are in many cases producers and co-producers of
media
content themselves, and they often seem to cross traditional borders
between digital
and analogue media and texts in their everyday practices.

					These developments bring about analytical, theoretical,
methodological and empirical
challenges which will be addressed at this conference.

					Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Children¹s and young people's everyday life with (digital) media
Children's literature in a new media landscape
Children and young people as consumers and producers of texts and media
Children's media and texts in family life and schools

					Confirmed keynote speakers:
Rebekah Willett, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ute Dettmar, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt
Björn Sjöblom, Stockholms Universitet
Philip Nel, Kansas State University

					Deadline for abstracts (max. 300 words) and a 100-word biography: 1
December 2016
to Sarah Mygind, (smyg /at/ cc.au.dk)
Notification of acceptance: 15 December
Conference organizers: Nina Christensen ((nc /at/ cc.au.dk)) & Stine Liv Johansen
((stineliv /at/ cc.au.dk))

				
			
			
	
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