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