The Media Education Research (MER) section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) will publish the Handbook on Media Education Research in 2019. The book will be launched at the 2019 IAMCR Conference.
The aim of this Handbook is to take stock of media education research over 35 years. Media education has emerged as a complex field of practices that operate across a range of school and non-school settings. A radical transformation in media technologies, aesthetic forms, ownership models, and practices of audience participation has brought about new concepts and theories.
Background
The scope of the field has undergone significant change, as multiple and varied new literacies, digital literacy, visual literacy, transmedia literacy, etc.), practices, technologies and institutions have become linked to the project.
These enriched debates are, on the one hand, the result of shifts in thinking within academic disciplines, especially as media production and consumption have radically changed, and on the other, the result of the emergence of non-traditional and non-Western actors within the field.
Exploring the field is a rigorous process of synthesis and review. We envision a dynamic handbook that presents a vision of media education for the contemporary period that is historically informed, future oriented, conceptually based and culturally diverse.
The prospective themes include:
- MEDIA EDUCATION HISTORIES
- GLOBAL MEDIA CULTURES AND YOUNG PEOPLES EVERYDAY LIFE
- MEDIA EDUCATION, INSTITUTIONS, AND POLICY DEVELOPMENTS
- TEACHING AND LEARNING IN/AND MEDIA EDUCATION
- CITIZENSHIP, COMMUNITIES AND ETHICS
Contact persons
Jaakko Vuorio
Researcher
jaakko.vuorio [at] uta.fi
+358 50 509 9207