Edited by Karsten D. Wolf, Klaus Rummler, Valentin Dander, Nina Grünberger, and Mandy Schiefner-Rohs
Please submit your full-text until 15. August 2022 at https://www.medienpaed.com/about/submissions. Please also find the author guidelines there.
Call for Papers as PDF
Topic
ENT | GRENZ | UNGEN – the keyword of the 28th GERA / DGfE Congress 2022 – is one of the central signatures of the present, especially in relation to a society of digitality. The call for the 2022 congress stated: “The definition, processing and transgression of boundaries can be understood both concretely and figuratively as a core task of education. Here one could think of spatial, temporal, disciplinary, paradigmatic, political, social, cultural and other boundaries.” The fields of action and research in Media Education are also permeated by phenomena of boundaries and dissolution, which make the “cultural technique of boundaries” quoted by Dirk Baecker seem obsolete. After all, digital media per se are characterised by a transgression of different boundaries – for example, of the early discussions about time- and place-independent learning qua digitisation.
Thus, digital media are repeatedly discussed in terms of the dissolution of boundaries and the opening up of otherwise protected pedagogical settings, especially in relation to learning/teaching processes. Social, spatial and temporal dissolution of boundaries should be mentioned, as well as systemic transgressions of boundaries, which cannot remain without effects on education and educational processes – it did not take a pandemic-related ‘home schooling’ to produce this effect. Last but not least, the boundaries between formal, non-formal, and informal learning/teaching, and educational processes are also blurred by media phenomena. The dissolution of boundaries between leisure time, school, work, privacy and the public sphere has been, and continues to be virtually fuelled by the media. The fact that the topic of boundaries and dissolution of boundaries is so connectable, especially for media education perspectives, is due, among other things, to the structure of current digital network infrastructures: decentralised structures, informal processes, and invisible ties, diversity of network nodes, and network consciousness, symmetrical exchange, interaction relationships, and distributed resources.
At the same time, the separating elements in the title-giving keyword refer to a performative contradiction, a ‘limitation of delimitations’, as it were, insofar as the ‘delimitation’ itself is subject to internal demarcations. This objection can also be applied to the phenomena described in the context of dissolution of boundaries within digital network media and education: The transnational character of the Internet is shifting towards different (supra-)national Internets and the large online platforms, by their hermetic design, contradict the principles of interoperability. Hence, decentralisation and the boundary-piercing power of digital networks show themselves to be opposed to diametral interests.
Contributions
For this call we invite contributions which are based on submissions to the GERA / DGfE Congress 2022, including poster contributions. It is possible to summarise panels, sessions or working groups in individual contributions.
We invite scientists, educational practitioners and media educators, to submit full-texts by 15th August 2022: https://www.medienpaed.com/about/submissions.
Contributions undergo a collegial double-open peer-review among the authors. Contributions are to be written according to the author guidelines (http://www.medienpaed.com/about/submissions#authorGuidelines).
Submission
https://www.medienpaed.com/about/submissions
Deadline for full-texts: 15 August 2022
Original contributions submitted in English or German should be original and should not be under consideration elsewhere. The total character count should be less than 40.000 characters (including spaces, without abstract, and without references). Poster contributions can be submitted as short papers of not more than 30.000 characters if posters are submitted as PDF along with the short paper. A narrative abstract of 150–200 words briefly describes the main issues, significant results and conclusions. Contributions must be submitted with an English and German title and abstract.
Editors
- Karsten D. Wolf (University of Bremen)
- Klaus Rummler (PH Zurich)
- Valentin Dander (FH Clara Hoffbauer Potsdam)
- Nina Grünberger (PH Vienna)
- Mandy Schiefner-Rohs (TU Kaiserslautern)