The Media Education Research Journal 2.2

MERJ 2.2
Special Edition: Media Studies 2.0 - A Retrospective

Call for papers, deadline: 26 August 2011

MERJ* invites submissions of full articles and research reports related to the claims and counterclaims surrounding the idea of Media Studies 2.0, first put forward in 2007 and the subject of debate and dissensus since.

Four years on, has media education been significantly transformed by Web 2.0? Is 'DIY media' competing with media coursework in schools, colleges and universities? Has the online age led to a new pedagogy for media education? How are teachers responding to an intake of 'prosumer' students? Or has the 'brave new world' of Media 2.0 failed to materialise?

They invite papers and reports that present the outcomes of media education research related to any aspect of this discussion.

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* The Media Education Research Journal - a twice-yearly peer-reviewed academic journal, the first issue of which was published in spring 2010. Volume 2 Issue 1 has now been published.

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.