Submission deadline for a special issue of merzWissenschaft on “Media, Media Concepts and Public Audience in the Digital Transformation” ends on January 24, 2024. ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp is co-editor.
The special edition of merzWissenschaft is published every December. This issue is dedicated to just one current topic, which it examines comprehensively and from different angles from a scientific perspective. The sections – spektrum, medienreport, publikationen, kolumne – are omitted here. The deadline for submitting abstracts is January 24, 2024.
The mediatization and digitalization of everyday worlds mean that media activities are no longer subject to boundaries. As a result, it is theoretically and practically impossible to use a classic concept of media to research and address media education for delimited parts of life time (TV time, radio time, Internet/PC time). Media, media-mediated relationships and non-media relationships converge, online and offline activities can often no longer be separated, as is made clear by terms such as ‘image activity’ or ‘information activity’. At the same time, the concept of media is essential in the formulation, design and application of central concepts of the discipline – for example, in determining the relationship between concepts of media literacy and concepts of digital literacy – and has implications for the goals and methods of (media) educational practice.
In order to discuss the question of an appropriate concept of media, media education seeks an exchange with its neighboring disciplines, above all communication and media studies, but also sociology, political science and philosophy, law as well as computer science education and other technological sciences. Theoretical and empirical contributions that can provide information on the requirements and determinants of a currently appropriate concept of media and related issues are welcome.
Abstracts with a maximum length of 6,000 characters (including spaces) can be submitted to the merz editorial team (merz@jff.de) until January 24, 2024 (extended submission deadline). Formally, the contributions should be based on the layout specifications of merzWissenschaft, which are available at https://www.merz-zeitschrift.de/manuskriptrichtlinien/. The length of the journal articles should not exceed a maximum of approx. 35,000 characters (including spaces). If you have any questions, please contact Susanne Eggert, phone: +49.89.68989.152, e-mail: susanne.eggert@jff.de
The complete Call for Papers is available here.
The claim to measure education is as old as teaching and learning processes have been offered and organized in an institutionalized form. The aim was and is to improve and optimize learning and education. The central hope is to be able to better support individual learning through the collection of data and the use of metrics. This measurement has gained momentum through the various PISA studies of the last 20 years and will continue to increase due to the possibilities of processing digital data of all kinds.
This new anthology takes a critical look at the datafication of education through contributions from interdisciplinary perspectives. The results are based in part on the research conducted as part of the joint project “All Is Data”, which Prof. Mandy Schiefner-Rohs (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau), Prof. Sandra Hofhues (Fernuni Hagen) and Prof. Andreas Breiter (ZeMKI and ifib) carried out with their teams. On the other hand, guest contributions were invited to broaden the diversity of perspectives.
Doreen Büntemeyer, the ZeMKI members Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter, Adrian Roeske and the former ZeMKI member Dr. Irina Zakharova are involved. The publication is available in Open Access.
Link to the book
The ZeMKI-Lab “Media & Education” is organizing the workshop “Tutorial Culture – Audiovisual Diversity in Communicative Figurations of Informal Learning” next Friday, as part of the research focus “Audiovisual Cultures”.
When: 08.12.2023 – 9:00 am to approx. 3:00 pm
Where: ZeMKI meeting room, Linzerstraße 4.
Everyone is invited!
Gladly also – if time or interest does not allow it – only as a part-time visit.
The program:
9:00 – 9:30 Introduction “Tutorial Culture – Audiovisual Diversity in Communicative Figurations of Informal Learning” (Karsten D. Wolf)
9:30 – 10:30 Audiovisual design aspects of explanatory videos from a didactic perspective: physics (Christoph Kulgemeyer) and mathematics (Martin Ohrndorf & Maike Vollstedt)
10:30 – 11:30 Audiovisual design aspects of explanatory videos from a media psychology perspective (Florian Schmidt-Borcherding)
11:30 – 12:30 Cinematic design features of explanatory videos and tutorials: YouTube-specific and domain-specific design features (Patrick Jung and Karsten D. Wolf ) and subject-specific design features in explanatory videos on the topic of history (Sabine Horn)
Lunch break (Attention, we are at ZeMKI and have no real catering, please bring something with you if necessary)
13:00 – 14:00 (Gender) Diversity in explanatory videos and tutorials (Verena Honkomp-Wilkens & Karsten D. Wolf)
From 14:00 Current research questions & planning publication (Frontiers in Education + application perspectives if applicable)
Tomorrow is the third lecture of the series “Communicative AI Lectures: ChatGPT, Ethics and Sustainability” at ZeMKI with Prof. Dr. David Gunkel: “The Relational Turn: A Techo-Ethics for the 21st Century and Beyond“ – “Person, Thing, Robot – European Tour”
When: 5th December 2023 – 18:00-20:00h
Where: Rotunde, Cartesium Building (Enrique-Schmidt-Straße 5, 28359 Bremen)
If you are unable to attend in person, you can request a recording of the presentation here.
More information about the lecture and the lecture series can be found here.
On 24.11.2023, ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp will give a lecture at the 19th Interdisciplinary Conference of the JFF – Institute for Media Education. The title of this year’s conference is “VIVA LA GENERATION- The Generation Debate in the Media”. Andreas Hepp’s contribution in Munich deals with the topic “Generation App, Social Media and AI: Why the idea of incisive media generations falls short – and media generational thinking still helps”.
To the conference program
