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Call for Manuscripts—Journal of Media Literacy Education

Volume 5, Issue 3: Special NAMLE 2013 Post-Conference Issue

Submission Deadline: August 15, 2013

This post-conference issue will focus on the emergent ideas from the NAMLE 2013 Conference held in Torrance, CA, July 12-13. The conference theme is "Intersections: Teaching and Learning across Media" with a special focus on transmedia.

Disruption is a watchword for the time we live in: competing social networking platforms, ever-shifting working styles, novel job descriptions displacing the old, manifold curricular and performance demands. With all these possibilities vying for our buy-in, it is vital to seek commonalities. It is at the intersections that we will begin to make sense and make use of a media revolution well underway and yet incompletely understood by our educational infrastructure.

Media-savvy educators now have the chance to articulate how new pedagogies can erect road signs at the intersections where communication practices, platforms, and cultures cross paths. Disciplines of thought and method can merge to form innovative perspectives, refreshing the way we approach problems and generating paths of study relevant to 21st century careers, citizens, relationships, and lifestyles. We are looking for proposals from media literacy educators, advocates, and researchers who use media as the backbone to teaching and who guide students to a thorough understanding of how to practice creative production and analysis ethically and responsibly across media. We are looking for evidence that this type of teaching can produce deeply engaged thinkers and communicators and that it can unify the broad demographics of our country, bridging gaps whether social, cultural, or economical, that have proven resistant to traditional models of education.

To magnify the theme of “Intersections,” we seek submissions that showcase:

• Improving the knowledge base for those new to the field of media literacy education

• Modeling new pedagogies for acquiring 21st century skills across multiple learning environments

• Transforming technology integration into valuable knowledge and practice

• Using media literacy to mobilize civic engagement and new forms of collaboration

• Nurturing social and cultural practices through inquiry-based learning

• Fostering co-learning through joint media engagement

• Keeping students at the center while still meeting Common Core Standards

To match our broad constituency and magnify the theme of  “Intersections,” we invite multimedia submissions. We welcome text manuscripts, still images, moving images, videos, computational and interactive structures, music, sound, and any other form of multimedia submissions.

JMLE Volume 5, Issue 2 will be published in June 2013 and serve as a scholarly backdrop for the 2013 NAMLE Conference to be held in Torrance, CA, July 12-13. All attendees and presenters are strongly encouraged to read this issue prior to the conference.

For questions regarding submissions or the peer-review process, contact Vanessa Domine at domine@jmle.org.

JMLE is the flagship journal of the National Association for Media Literacy Education. NAMLE celebrates the diversity of voices, pedagogies, and technologies that comprise the growing field of media literacy education. We seek to facilitate media literacy education among a broad constituency that includes children, families and adults of all ages, academic researchers, P-16 teachers, teacher educators, art educators, community leaders, media producers, non-profit partners, faith-based groups, pediatricians and other health professionals.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. Each author of the uploaded manuscript must be registered as users/authors within JMLE.org.
2. The manuscript has been proofread repeatedly to ensure logical flow, sound arguments, and clear exposition of ideas.
3. All images and graphics should be submitted as supplementary files and their placement in the manuscrupt must be noted.
4. For research and scholarship manuscripts, the research question is stated clearly in both the abstract and introduction.
5. Where possible, the manuscript is aligned with NAMLE's Core Principles of Media Literacy Education.
6. Author's name does not appear anywhere in the manuscript submission in preparation for the blind peer review process.
7. Cover sheet/letter is included with the title of the manuscript and 100-word abstract of the paper.
8. Manuscript is submitted in Microsoft Word Format, with appropriate margins, double-spaced and 12-point font.
9. All URLs must be checked for accuracy prior to submission.
10. Manuscripts should be within the designated word count for the type of submission (Research Articles, Voices from the Field, and Professional Resource Reviews - consult our archives for examples of each type).
11. For writing style and the use of tables, figures, and appendices, authors must follow Chicago style in accordance with the guidelines of the online edition:  The Chicago Manual of Style 16th Edition.
12. If you are uploading a revised version of a manuscript that you previously submitted to JMLE, then please include this information in the author comments when uploading your submission.

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1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.


2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.


3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).


4. It is the responsibility of the authors, not JMLE, to determine whether disclosure of their material requires the prior consent of other parties and if so, to obtain it. Responsibilty for the content of published papers rests upon the authors, not JMLE.

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