*CFP* "CHILDREN'S ONLINE WORLDS, DIGITAL MEDIA AND DIGITAL LITERACY", ECREA CONFERENCE

'Children’s Online Worlds, Digital Media and Digital Literacy', 

for Ecrea's TWG -'Children, Youth and Media' gap-year Conference, 

Athens 24-25 May 2019

Digital media is not just part of children’s cultures but is inherently part of their everyday practices through which they explore and construct the world. Within this context, children develop a large range of literacy skills and practices related to education, consumption of media and cultural texts, lifestyle, sexuality. Young people use digital media for school work, communication, flirting, news consumption, political engagement, activism or for interaction with their favourite celebrities (on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and other platforms). As such, digital media serve as a multipurpose platform of self-performance, identity construction and self-projection, enriching children’s lived experiences and everyday culture. Considering such skills and practices as agentic claims to citizenship and claims to broader participation in different aspects of the public discourse, we invite contributions from researchers working within media studies, cultural studies, education, psychology and sociology, looking at how children develop or engage with literacy practices through the use of digital media and cultural consumption.

We welcome research from (though not exclusively) the following topics:

• Children’s digital media uses for self-performance and identity construction 
• Children’s approaches to risk, safety and literacy 
• Social media practices, self-regulation and mediation in the context of media literacy 
• Celebrity culture as media literacy 
• Literacy skills as part of children’s citizenship rights 
• The role of popular culture in developing children’s literacy skills 
• Innovative methodologies in researching children’s media literacy 
• Children’s online worlds and cultural consumption

Extended Deadline for abstract submission: 20 January 2019. Please send abstracts (500 words max) to athenskidsyouthmedia@gmail.com for blind review.

Notification of Acceptance: 15 february 2019

Host: Department of Communication and Media Studies, School of Economics and Political Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)

Local organizers: Liza Tsaliki  (etsaliki@media.uoa.gr)  & Despina Chronaki (despinachronaki@gmail.com)

We estimate for 35- 40 presenters.

Participation fees: 70 euros (covering registration, coffee/snack/lunch breaks throughout the conference)

Participants are responsible for their own travel and subsidence.

Keynote speaker– David Buckingham. Friday 24 May 2019 (morning session) @ National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 30 Panepistimiou Street, Amphitheatre Argiriadis.

For more details, please visit Cymecrea and Ecrea's TWG -'Children, Youth and Media'.