The upcoming Conference “Educational Media Ecologies: International Perspectives”, will be held at the University of Paderborn between 27. - 28. March 2012 at the Facilities of the Department of Media Science. It will be hosted by Dr. Norm Friesen (Thompson Rivers University, Canada), Prof. Dr. Theo Hug (University of Innsbruck, Austria) and Prof. Dr. Dorothee M. Meister (University of Paderborn). The Conference aims the international academic discussion and exchange to a wide range of new perspectives on Educational Media Ecologies.

From educational gaming through portable e-readers to cell phones, media are interpenetrating educational spaces and activities. Accordingly, understanding media in environmental or ecological terms has become increasingly important for education on both sides of the Atlantic. In North America, the recent centenary of McLuhan’s birth has focused attention on approaches to media –whether oral, textual, electronic or digital-- as a kind of environment in which education takes place. On the other side, the so-called “mediatic turn” –following on the linguistic and iconic turns—has similarly emphasized the role of media as a condition for the possibility of educational activities and programs. The purpose of this conference is to deepen and expand international dialogue between North America and the UK, and Northern and German-speaking Europe in the area of educational media -- and to provide an opportunity for developing connections to other contexts as well. Areas of research and scholarship relevant to this dialogue include educational media, media literacy, educational technology, educational philosophy, and literary and cultural studies.

We welcome submissions from scholars and educationalists as well as media professionals. Proposals can be submitted for conceptual papers as well as reports of empirical studies. The conference is orientated towards discourse. Conference language is English.

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Please submit your papers till December 15, 2011 as email attachments in PDF format to Prof. Dr. Dorothee M. Meister or use the form under this paragraph. Following the double-blind review process, authors will be notified about decisions by April 15 2012.

• extension till January 15, 2011: submission of abstracts (maximum 500 words, plus short CV)
• December 15, 2011: notification of speakers
• no deadline: submission of manuscripts (max. 5000 words incl. references and an abstract of max. 100 words)
• March 27-28, 2012 conference
• April 15, 2012: notification of papers accepted for publication
• July 31, 2012: publication of the conference proceedings

Ben Bachmair
Cultural ecology as referential frame for mobile learning, the approach of the London Mobile Learning Group

Suzanne de Castell (Simon Fraser University in Vancouver)
Building as Interface: Sustainable Media Ecologies
 

Petra Grell (University of Potsdam)
If media literacy is the answer, what is the question?

Jeanette Böhme (University of Duisburg-Essen)
School at the End of the Culture of the Book 
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Markus Deimann (Distance University Hagen)
Revisiting educational theories to inform learning and education in media-rich environments
– Towards a transatlantic dialogue –
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Yvonne Fritze/Yngve Nordkvelle
The media ecology of media students - do they represent the future of the mediatized individual? 
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Bardo Herzig/Sandra Aßmann (University of Paderborn)
Developing a suitable definition of media as a basis to describe media-related learning processes in different environments
– A proposal according to the theoretical ideas of Peirce, Luhmann and Castells –
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Reinhard Keil/Harald Selke
Medi@rena: A Conceptual Framework for Designing Learning Ecotopes
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Shannon Lowe (Lancaster University)
Media ‘interpenetrating educational spaces and activities
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Heinz Moser (University of Kassel)
Working with digicams in career counseling

Klaus Rummler (University of Bremen)
Media Education within Socio-Cultural Ecology at the example of at-risk learners in Germany1
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Judith Seipold
Mobile Learning – potential and controversies embodied in a young scientific field and arising consequences for future research and practice
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Martin Speer (Technical University of Dortmund)
Machinic Heterogenesis and the Global Village: The Method of Marshall McLuhan and the Chaosmosis Theory of Félix Guattari Combined in Internet Studies
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Prof. Dr. Dorothee M. Meister
University of Paderborn
Institute for Media Studies
Warburger Straße 100
33098 Paderborn

E-Mail: dm[at]uni-paderborn.de Phone: (+49) 5251 / 60-3723

Dr. Norm Friesen 
Thompson Rivers Universities
Research Chair in E-Learning Practices
900 McGill Rd. KamloopsBritish 
Columbia Canada V2C 5N3 
Phone: +1 250 852-6256

E-Mail: nfriesen[at]tru.ca 
Tel.:(250) 852-6256

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Theo Hug
University of Innsbruck
Institute of Psychosocial Intervention and Communication Studies 
Liebeneggstr. 8
A - 6020 Innsbruck
Austria

E-mail: theo.hug@uibk.ac.at
Phone: +43-512-507-4048