[Air-L] Call for Papers: Digital Culture & Education

jeremy hunsinger jhuns at vt.edu
Thu Dec 10 08:36:54 PST 2009


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> The call is attached and reproduced below, please feel free to circulate to interested parties.
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> Call for Papers for Special Themed Issue:
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> Beyond ‘new’ literacies
> Guest editor: Dana J. Wilber
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> Much of the work in literacy and digital technologies falls into the area of ‘new literacies’ (Lankshear
> and Knobel, 2006), a theoretical frame that defines literacies as new through tools and practices that
> previously did not exist. This special issue of Digital Culture & Education (DCE) seeks to reinvigorate
> and challenge approaches to the ‘new’ by drawing on existing and innovative models and approaches
> from outside of ‘new literacies’ to enrich this framework by focusing on the diverse roles digital literacy
> practices play in on and offline spaces (social networking, games, virtual worlds, etc.) as part of day-today
> public and private life. Specifically, the special issue seeks to expand the new literacies’ theoretical
> paradigm by asking:
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> • How might we expand the idea of new literacies through fine-grained examinations of specific
> literacy practices with particular tools or technologies, like social networking, digital games, and
> multimodal design through different frames?
> • How can new perspectives, practices and/or theories (i.e. discourse analysis, feminism, Queer,
> gaming, literary theory, or post-structuralist) provide additional insights around the
> congruencies and/or tensions between literacies and digital technologies across institutional and
> non-institutional contexts?
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> The concern of Beyond new literacies is to highlight research that develops a theoretical dialogue between
> literacies and technologies, as more than ‘new’, through either applied research or theoretical
> intervention by:
> • Making use of a wide variety of theoretical lenses to analyze and understand how literacies and
> literacy practices operate within virtual worlds or through specific digital tools.
> • Analyzing the digital literacy and technology practices of users through a variety of
> methodological avenues (including discourse analysis, case study, oral history, experimental,
> mixed design, rhizoanalysis, etc.)
> • Examining situated practices in everyday use, integrating issues of on and offline definitions and
> spatial distinctions
> 
> We encourage submissions from scholars, researchers, and practitioners from around the globe,
> working in areas such as literacy and education, gaming, new media, sociocultural studies of
> technologies, literary theory and technology, fan studies, adolescents and digital media, and media and
> identity. Submissions from research groups working in projects like video games research, digital
> storytelling, and mobile learning are encouraged.
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> Interested authors should send their manuscripts to Dana J. Wilber at wilberd at mail.montclair.edu or
> the editor of Digital Culture & Education at editor at digitalcultureandeducation.com by March 1, 2010.
> Beyond ‘new’ literacies will be published in May 2010.
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> Tom Apperley, Ph.D.
> Co-Editor Digital Culture and Education
> www.digitalcultureandeducation.com
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