[ecrea] Call for Papers: ICA Pre-Conference "Media literacy as intergenerational project: skills, norms, and mediation"

* Call for Papers

* ICA Pre-Conference "Media literacy as intergenerational project: 
skills, norms, and mediation"

Today's information society is characterized by its permeation of 
multifunctional and ubiquitous media. Since a diverse set of media is 
most often habitually integrated in daily routines, media literacy is an 
"important prerequisite" to deal with media risks and opportunities 
(UNESCO, 2016, 26). Even more, media literacy has become a key 
competence for societal, political, and civic engagement and 
participation in the 21st century (Hobbs, 2011; Erstad & Amdam, 2013). 
Its acquirement is most often discussed as a long-term process during 
life cycle (Potter, 2010), since individuals need to adjust their media 
literacy to media changes and also to the main challenges of the 
developmental tasks during the different stages of their lives 
(Pfaff-Ruediger, Riesmeyer & Kuempel, 2012) and the turning points of 
their biographies. Furthermore, the socialization of media literacy is 
shaped by diverse socialization agents, i.e. parents, teachers, peers, 
and the individual itself (Hobbs, 2011).
However, research on media generations demonstrates that living in 
different media landscapes and corresponding socializing environment 
leads to diverse media experiences (Naab & Schwarzenegger, 2017) and 
therefore highly individual sets of media literacy with "differing 
levels and uses of literacy competencies according to [...] 
environments, needs, and available resources" (UNESCO, 2016, 25). The 
idea of an entanglement of media changes, lifelong acquirement of media 
literacy, and exchange processes between media generations is at the 
core of our preconference. We aim at:
(1) Answering following research questions: Which generation owns which 
media literacy skills and norms for media use? Who mediates media 
literacy at which turning point in life cycle? How could media literacy 
be characterized as intergenerational project, since changing media use 
and media access induce the connection of different generations (and 
socialization agents) and also promotes reverse socialization (e.g. from 
children to parents)? (2) Bringing together international scholars that 
study media literacy and implications of this conceptualization as 
intergenerational project.
Submissions should address the following aspects:
- media generation specific media literacy skills and norms
- normative, social, political, and civic implications of (missing) 
media literacy
- mediation (and reverse mediation) of media literacy and influencing 
factors
- inter- and transgenerational exchange of media literacy and media 
practices
- influence of turning points within media biographies and media generations

Submissions: Extended Abstracts (max. 1.000 words plus references) 
should be sent to Claudia Riesmeyer ((riesmeyer /at/ ifkw.lmu.de)). The 
deadline for submission is 30 November 2017. Notification of acceptance 
will be sent to authors before 15 January 2018. The preconference will 
take place on 23 May 2018 (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) at LMU Munich. 
Self-organized transport from Munich to Prague via multiple ways on 24 
May 2018 (plane, bus, train, rental car; travel duration: 1 to 5 hrs). 
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the organizers 
Claudia Riesmeyer ((riesmeyer /at/ ifkw.lmu.de)), Thorsten Naab 
((thorsten.naab /at/ phil.uni-augsburg.de)), or Ruth Festl ((festl /at/ dji.de)).


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