Some issues we hope the manuscripts may consider: - How do media
literacy’s structured, formal and critical practices of reading
texts/contexts/cultures map onto new forms of participation and
engagement in social media environments? - How does learning
about young peoples’ out-of-school literacy practices with
digital media support the development of in-school programs? -
Why are aspects of mass media and popular culture generally
absent from discussion about digital media and learning? - How
are new online tools (including those for remix, screen capture,
commenting, and collaborative writing) shifting the role of
media production practices both in and out of the classroom? -
Is the focus on digital “tool competence” contributing to
another kind of “technicist trap?” - How does scholarship in
digital media and learning address issues of representation and
cultural difference? - Is digital citizenship a new set of life
skills or a form of moral education that frames media and
technology use in terms of middl