Four Questions For April Leach about media literacy, digital literacy, & arts education
Channel: Ian O'Byrne
Date: 2018-03-19

Together with April Marie Leach, I am guest editing an upcoming special issue of the Journal of Literacy & Technology. Please review the details below. Contact us if you have questions.

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The title of this themed issue is Through the Portal of Art and Culture: Media Literacy as the Art of Communication.
 
This special issue of the Journal of Literacy and Technology invites academic submissions in order to investigate the intersection between art and communication through media literacy.  As information and communication technologies advance, so too does the need to look at conceptions of "text" more broadly. This would include, but not be limited to visual aesthetics, design cues, tool/text affordances, role of sender/audience, communication accommodation theory, transmediation, and the affordances of imagery to build critical communication literacy across cultures. 

This themed issue seeks to identify current and future trends in this framing of text as it relates to building media literacy to understand the opportunities to encode and decode symbols as individuals synthesize, analyze, and produce mediated messages. As more of what we would consider to be "art" is brought into media literacy, these visual and aesthetic elements have an impact on these texts as individuals read, write, and communicate across society. 

Please submit an abstracts of up to 1,500 words to the editors by the deadline. Final submissions will be up to 10,000 words, excluding references and tables.

Deadline for Abstracts to be received May 1, 2018

The editors would appreciate questions ahead of time so they can guide authors. 

Selection of proposals June 1, 2018
Deadline for submission of Manuscripts August 15
Publication November, 2018

Please contact the guest editors at the details below early in the process if you have questions. 

April Leach Ph.D.  (561) 213-5234
leach4literacy@gmail.com

Ian O'Byrne Ph.D. (843) 953-3376
wiobyrne@gmail.com