| So-called 'new media' and digitization – ranging from social media to ubiquitous computing and artificial intelligence, from big data to virtual environments and a hybridization of all spheres of life – do not only challenge our individual sovereignty, they call into question almost all dimensions of our society. At the same time, however, they offer opportunities and chances: they bear the promise to think through complex entanglement, to create new epistemic ecologies, to participate in the negotiating how we cope with the challenges of the present and how we envision our collective in the future; they promise living diversity in action and to empower those who otherwise might have no voice – or in short: they offer venues to face vital challenges of the 21st century. Prerequisite, however, is that we develop the competences – as individuals as well as society – to act in an increasingly deeply mediatized, digital or rather hybrid world, to actively participate in it and – above all – to shape it. This transdisciplinary workshop tries to envision alternatives to under-complex approaches in this entanglement, starting from the premises that we need to think of 'new literacies' for the 21st century in a much more comprehensive way: as complex competences for a more and more complex world. In this regard, we seek to further think through digital media through (not exclusively) social, critical, multimodal, spatial, material and sensory lenses. Hence, approaching emerging new (media) environments as interdependent creative, discursive, social, political and epistemic ecologies and practices, we invite participants to think with us through pressing issues alongside four possible research aspects on new literacies:
• learning through engagement, political education
• digital societies, sustainability and eco-literacy
• citizenship, participation and empowerment
• complex epistemic ecologies and knowledge environments The worksohp will take place online via Zoom from April 27 to April 29 2023. We invite researchers from all disciplines engaged in finding solutions to the challenges outlined above to send their proposal till 15.12.2022, note of acceptance till 31.01.2023. More information can be found on the website: https://rethinking-education.avinus.org/ As we aim at opening spaces for exchange, there are no strict requirements for individual contributions (up to 20 minutes presentation + 10 minutes of discussion).
Innovative formats are welcome.
Proposals should include:
• outline of presentation (approx. 2000 characters)
• short CV
• selected list of reference
• format of presentation If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at the following e-mail address: rethinking@medienkulturforschung.de |
