CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE: TEACHING DIGITAL MEDIA

Here’s a journal I wish that I’d been in a position to submit an article to, but my diary is rather stuffed (at least til the end of June!), but I look forward to seeing what is produced…

Deadline: November 30, 2010 Guest Editor: Mary McAleer Balkun

The editors seek articles (5,000-10,000 words) and media essays (overviews on books, film, video, performance, art, music, websites, etc. 3,000 to 5,000 words) and items for an occasional feature, “The Material Culture of Teaching,” that explore the uses of digital media in all pedagogical contexts and disciplinary perspectives.

Submissions should explore the application or impact of any form of digital media on teaching and learning, including but not restricted to digital/digitized materials, specific software, social media, virtual environments, audio or visual media, and the internet.  We welcome essays from all disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. Transformations  publishes only essays that focus on pedagogical praxis and/or pedagogical theory.

Possible topics for pedagogy-related articles:

• Teaching digital media as a subject
• Distance Learning
• Digital texts
• Mapping software/Social Geography
• Creation of new knowledge
• Collaboration
• Virtual worlds
• Digital storytelling
• Unintended consequences of using digital media
• Authorial/Ownership issue
• Creative commons
• Ethics and digital media
• Access issues
• Social media/social networking
• Technologies of plagiarism
• Libraries in the digital age
• Email and the historical record
• Politics of knowledge
• Globalization and digital media
• Faculty development
• Portability of learning materials
• Censorship/Self censorship
• Class/race/gender and digital media
• Digital media and the arts
• Personal vulnerability in the digital world
• Creating digital media
• Immediacy/Ubiquity of information
• Discipline shifts

Send submissions or inquiries in MLA format (7th ed.) as attachments in MS Word (.doc) or Rich Text format to: Jacqueline Ellis and Ellen Gruber Garvey, Editors, transformations@njcu.edu. Author(s) name and contact information should be included on a SEPARATE page.

See information here.