… nach der gestrigen Ringvorlesung mit dem Titel "After the Mediatic Turn: Ramifications for Education and Media Pedagogy" (hier das abstract) hat Norm Friesen folgende Mail mit dem Hinweis auf eine Tagung sowie eine Publikation gemailt:
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Hello Colleagues,
Thanks for hosting us in your Ringvorlesung on "Die konstitutive Kraft
der Medien."
I greatly enjoyed the opportunity to present, and to get an impression
of the kind of work that you are engaged in.
I wanted to let you know about a conference that I am hosting in
Vancouver this spring (April 8-10, 2010). It is titled: Media
Transatlantic: Media Theory in North America and German-Speaking Europe
http://www.mediatrans.ca/
Also, I have very recently circulated a call for papers on a subject
closely related to the presentation that I gave with Theo Hug. I have
pasted in this call below. I would be very grateful if you could
circulate it within relevant German-speaking communities, and perhaps
even consider working on a submission!
-N. Friesen
CFP – Media:
Digital, Ecological and Epistemological
Special
issue of E-Learning and Digital Media, Editor Dr. Norm Friesen /
Please Forward as appropriate!
Media
today are everywhere. From educational gaming through portable e-texts
to cell phones ringing in class, it seems we can’t escape. Nor can we
live without media; instead, they form a kind of ecology that we
inhabit. In addition, media have an epistemological function; they
shape both what we know and how we come to know it: “Whatever we know
about our society, or indeed about the world in which we live,†as
Niklas Luhman observed, “we know through… media.â€
Speaking of media in education suggests a range of
possibilities that are different from what is suggested by educational technology (electronic, digital or
otherwise). Describing computers and the Internet specifically as
digital media casts their role not as mental
tools to be integrated into instruction, but as “forms†and “culturesâ€
requiring “literacies†or acculturation. In this way, speaking of media
in education brings instructional environments more closely together
with the world outside. Explorations of these terms and possibilities
have been initiated by the likes of Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman and
Elizabeth Eisenstein, and they are also touched upon in research on
media literacies. However, more recent theoretical developments and
accelerated mediatic change –from blogging through networked gaming to
texting and sexting– offer innumerable opportunities for further
exploration.
This
special issue of E-Learning
and Digital Media invites
contributions that focus on media, particularly digital media, and
their ecological and epistemological ramifications. Specific topics may
include:
- School and classroom as media
(ecologies) and the changing world outside
- Digital challenges to media literacy
and literacies
- Media socialization and media education
- Histories of media and education
- The epistemological character of (new)
media
Submissions
for this special issue are due May 1, 2010
Length of
submissions: generally 6000-8000 words
Further
submission and formatting information is available at:http://www.wwwords.co.uk/elea/howtocontribute.asp
Direct
comments and questions to:Â nfriesen@tru.ca