[ecrea] Announcing MERJ - the Media Education Research Journal

Announcing MERJ - the Media Education Research Journal
http://www.auteur.co.uk/index.php?main_section=8&textentryid=39

ISSN: 2040-4530

Auteur is pleased to announce MERJ - the Media 
Education Research Journal - a twice-yearly 
peer-reviewed academic journal, the first issue 
of which will be published in spring 2010.

Edited by Richard Berger (the Centre for 
Excellence in Media Practice, Bournemouth 
University) and Julian McDougall (Newman 
University College, Birmingham), MERJ offers a 
forum for the exchange of academic research into 
media education and pedagogy conducted by 
academics, practitioners and teachers situated in 
all sectors and contexts for media education. The 
journal aims to encourage dialogue between the 
sectors and between media educators from 
different countries, with the aim to facilitate 
the transfer of critical, empirical, action and 
discursive research into the complexity of media education as social practice.

Call for articles (second edition Winter 2010)

The editors invite articles from academics and 
practitioners from all sectors who wish to share 
the outcomes of case studies / research into 
media learning and pedagogy. Themes may include (but are not restricted to):

* Action research with Media students
* The relationship between theory and practice
* Assessing media learning
* The categorisation and assessment of creativity and originality
* The employability discourse
* How media literacy and media education relate
* Media learning practices in 'Media 2.0'
* The Media teacher as researcher; and the academic as practitioner
* The boundaries of media education and within media education
* Pedagogy related to specific learning contexts 
(eg 14-19 diploma, 'reframing literacy' in 
primary education, production-based University 
learning) or progression between learning contexts.

Articles are invited in two formats:

* FULL ARTICLES (4?5000 words) sharing the 
outcomes of research (with appropriate 
methodology and critical analysis of data) to 
contribute to the field of media education and pedagogy.

* RESEARCH REPORTS (1500 words) sharing work in 
progress or completed research pending critical 
analysis from emerging researchers. These reports 
will serve a networking and incubation function.

The journal will also feature reviews of books, 
online material, conferences and other related areas.

The deadline for submissions for Volume 1 issue 2 is 29 May 2010.

In the first instance, please email 
(merj /at/ auteur.co.uk) for more information or to submit an article.

Guidelines for authors

Please refer to the call for papers above for the invited themes for articles.

Research reports should not exceed 1500 words and 
main articles should not exceed 5000 words ? 
including notes and references. Submissions 
exceeding these word lengths will not be forwarded for peer-review.

The editors welcome abstracts of no more than 250 
words on proposed research reports and main articles.

Articles submitted to MERJ must be prefaced by 
names of authors and affiliations, the abstract, 
four keywords that relate to the stated themes of 
the journal as published on the call for papers 
and the address for correspondence of the lead author.

Manuscripts should be double-space and in Ariel 
font no less than size 12. Submissions can be 
made in either a Word document or in RTF format.

Footnotes are not required in submissions to MERJ.

All submissions should be in English and all 
authors are expected to obtain copyright on 
previously published material or images where 
appropriate. Unsolicited manuscripts will not be returned.

Formatting

UK or US spelling may be used with '-ize' 
spellings as given in the OED (e.g. organize, 
recognize). Indicate italic type by underlining 
and use single quotation marks. Tables and 
figures should be clearly labelled and explained 
in the text and camera-ready artwork for all 
figures must be supplied. Essential footnotes 
should be indicated by superscript figures in the 
text and collected on a single page at the end of 
the article. References cited in the text should 
read thus: Smith (2008: 63-4), Smith and Jones (2008, 2009).

Please use 'et al.' when citing a work by more 
than two authors, e.g. Smith et al. (2008). The 
letters a, b, c etc. should be used to 
distinguish different citations by the same 
author in the same year, e.g. Jones (2008a, 
2008b). All references cited in the text should 
be listed alphabetically and in full after the 
notes, using the following style:

    * Daniels, H., 2001. Vygotsky and Pedagogy. London: Routledge.

    * Rehak, B., 2003. ?Playing at Being: 
Psychoanalysis and the Avatar?. In: Mark J. P 
Wolf and Bernard Perron, eds, The Video Game 
Theory Reader. London: Routledge, 103-128.

    * Symons, S., 2008. ?Mass-market Comedy: How 
Mel Brooks Adapted The Producers for Broadway and 
Made a Billion Dollars 2001-2007?. In: Adaptation 
in Literature and Performance, 1 (2), 133-145.

Permission to Publish

Authors submitting a report, article or book 
review do so on the understanding that, if it is 
accepted for publication, exclusive copyright of 
the article shall be assigned to Auteur 
Publishing and the author will be required to 
sign a copyright indemnity declaration. Auteur 
will not charge authors who wish to use their 
articles again in publications they may subsequently write or edit.

Authors whose articles are accepted may be 
requested to provide both a hard copy and an 
electronic copy of their work. Authors must 
correct submissions promptly and not make revisions on them.

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