[Air-L] Call for Chapters

[daniel aranda]

 *Book: Education, media and participatory culture*
 *Open University of Catalonia Press*

 The increasing presence of media and digital technologies plays a key role
in many aspects of our daily life. Computers, video games, Internet,
digital cameras or mobile phones are essential tools among young and no so
young to communicate, share, consume or create knowledge. All these
activities significantly affect the development of our social, cultural and
educational competences, i.e. the way we communicate, eat, work, study or
solve problems. This particular context challenges us to think more
creatively about the relationships and interactions between communication
and learning, and to explore how educational models are being impacted by
the processes of social change that come with digitalization, the emergence
of social media and the so-called web 2.0.

 This call for chapters aims to strengthen the network of researchers,
teachers, professionals and doctorate students interested in the
relationships and interactions between communication and learning, by
linking the results of two international conferences: *International
Conference on Media Education and Digital
Competence<http://www.educacionmediatica.es/congreso2011>
* and *BCN Meeting#2: International Conference on Social
e-xperience<http://www.uoc.edu/symposia/BCNmeeting2012/>
*.

 We encourage the submission of original contributions in Spanish or in
English to the two-volume book on *Education, media and participatory
culture* that will be published by Open University of Catalonia under
UOCpress collection. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to,
the following:

 1. Relations and interactions between communication and learning
 2. New social uses of audiovisual technologies
 3. Relations and interactions between education and entertainment
 4. Participatory culture and learning in the digital age
 5. Social networks and virtual communities
 6. Videogames and virtual worlds
 7. Projects’ dissemination

 Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before December
20, 2012 a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and
concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will
be notified by January 15, 2013 about the status of their proposals and
sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters (4,500 – 6.000 words) are expected
to be submitted by April 30, 2013. All submitted full chapters will be
reviewed on a double-blind review basis.


*Important dates: *
Chapter proposal submission (800 words): December 20, 2012
 Full chapter submission (4500 - 6000 words): April 30, 2013
 Expected date of publication: October 2013

 *Inquiries can be forwarded to:*
 Dr. Daniel Aranda
 Department of Communication and Information Sciences
 Open University of Catalonia
E-mail: darandaj at uoc.edu

-- 
Dani Aranda
Professor dels Estudis de Ciències de la Informació i la Comunicació
Investigador del Programa de recerca Communication & New Media - IN3
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Blog: http://spider-uoc.blogspot.com/