The Media Education Research Journal - a twice-yearly peer-reviewed academic journal, the first issue of which was published in spring 2010. Volume 2 Issue 2 has now been published.
MERJ will be at this year's Media Education Summit.
Call for papers – MERJ 3.2
The Media Education Research Journal invites submissions for issue 03:02 by the deadline of October 12th 2012.
MERJ offers a forum for the exchange of academic research into media education and pedagogy conducted by academics, practitioners and teachers situated in all sectors and contexts for media education. The journal aims to encourage dialogue between the sectors and between media educators from different countries, with the aim to facilitate the transfer of critical, empirical, action and discursive research into the complexity of media education as social practice.
We invite papers and reports that present the outcomes of media education research related to any aspect of this discussion. Read the guidelines for submission here.
Deadline: 12th OCTOBER, 2012
Current Issue: MERJ 02:02
- Contents
- Editorial: Media Studies 2.0: A Retrospective
- Media Studies 1.0: Back to Basics. Dan Laughey
- Book and Resources reviews:
- Articles and research reports on media education and pedagogy
Previous issues...
Volume 2, Issue 1
This edition pubished a range of papers from two international conferences - the Media Education Summit, September 2010 and the Media Literacy Conference, November 2010, bookended by an editorial exchange between Henry Jenkins, Marc Prensky, David Buckingham and Cary Bazalgette and an extended review discussion of 'Making is Connecting', between the author, David Gauntlett and two discussants, Dave Trotman and Marc Readman.
Volume 1, Issue 2
Included contributions on conceptualising media literacy, a model for reflective film analysis and a critique of the policy discourse 'Digital Britain'.