[Air-l] Fwd: [cultstud-l] New Media Literacies: Theory, Practice, Activism

[jeremy hunsinger]

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> Date: Sun Jan 26, 2003  1:21:01 PM US/Eastern
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> Subject: [cultstud-l] New Media Literacies: Theory, Practice, Activism
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> New Media Literacies: Theory, Practice and Activism.
>
> This is a CFP for a book collection of original essays that will 
> appear in a series of books published by Reconstructions  
> http://www.reconstruction.ws/readers.htm
>
> The reader will be organized around several orienting 
> questions/research: Exploration/contestation of key terms/concepts.  
> Changing requirements of active literacy in the 21st century. What 
> does it mean to be media literate? Why is media literacy important? 
> What is the impact of new media technologies? What are the political 
> potentials of new media? What are the problems/dangers associated with 
> new media technologies?   We are particularly interested in essays 
> that integrate practice and activism with theory.
>
> Please feel free to explore and experiment—both in form and in 
> content.  The deadline for submission is July 1, 2003.
>
> To submit an essay, send 2 paper copies and one disk copy to:
>
> Michael Benton
> English Department
> University of Kentucky
> 1215 Patterson Office Tower
> Lexington, KY 40506
>
> Proposal queries should be addressed to:
> mdbent3 at uky.edu
>
> International submissions can be submitted electronically to the same 
> address—please contact for more information.
>
>
> Possible topics:
>
> Changing requirements of “literacy”
> Defining/complicating ambiguous “terms” or “concepts”
> Culture/Community in New Media environments
> Collective Memory/Individual Interpretation
> “Living Museum” (Mikhail Epstein/Ellen Berry)
> The Archive in the 21st century
> Independent Media
> Performative Interventions
> Design Theories
> Role of the Internet
> Situationist Tactics
> Classroom Experiments
> Public Art
> Intertexuality
> Pla(y)giarism
> Critifiction
> Community Activism
> Need for K-12 Critical Media Education
> Paraliterature
> Information vs Knowledge
> Data Overload
> Manifestos
> Global Media
> Future of New Media Theory
> Postliterary Poetics
> Political Use of New Media
> Citizen vs Consumer
> Media Literacy for Active Democratic Citizens
> Transformation of Reading/Writing
> Ethnographic Studies
> Moments/Events – Sites/Locations
> Critical Theory of the Informational Society
> Online Communities
> People’s Histories on the Net
> New Media Transformations of Present/Past Media
> Attention/Distraction
> Censorship
> Corporate Control of Media Technology
> New Theories of Design
> Radical Software
> Small Worlds, Complexity, or Chaos Theories
> Social Movements and Media
> Mapping (spatial, cognitive, informational)
> Representations of Space/Place
> Alternative Histories
> Collaborative Creativity
> New Media Aesthetics
> Open Source Movement
> Posthuman Theory
> New Media Music Theory
> Online Activism
> Public Sphere(s)
> Global Media and Democracy
> Education and New Media
> Digital Divide(s)
>
>
>
>
>
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jeremy hunsinger
jhuns at vt.edu
on the ibook
www.cddc.vt.edu
www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy
www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy/blog

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