*CFP* "DIGITAL NATURE CONNECTIONS", 2020 SPECIAL ISSUE, DIGITAL CULTURE AND EDUCATION JOURNAL

Following a number of requests, the deadline for the Digital Nature Connections special edition of the Digital Culture and Education Journal has been extended. You now have until December 31 to send us your full papers!

This 2020 special issue of the Digital Culture and Education open access, online journal explores contemporary issues in digital eco-pedagogy, particularly in relation to the education of children.

Before you submit: If you have any questions about your topic, or approach please feel free to email the editor, Dr. Bronwin Patrickson bronwin.patrickson@southwales.ac.uk

Empirical studies are particularly welcome. Topics might include, but are not limited to:

• Engaging pedagogy with mediated experiences of nature relatedness 
• Interplays of real/virtual, action/simulation, inside/outside, the physical world and digital space in environmental education 
• Eco-media literacy, including awareness of the creative, economic and material modes of digital production 
• Progressive and social constructions of ecological citizenship 
• Navigating the limits, as well as the potential benefits of digital nature connections 
• The intercultural, multi-dimensional, interdisciplinary and/or inter-generational dimensions to eco-citizenship 
• Digital eco-pedagogy and cultural theory 
• The digital mediation of inter-species relationships 
• Digital representations of climate change e.g. abstraction, versus digital photo-realism 
• Links between mediated play, expectations of nature and off-line behaviours 
• Digital green-washing 
• Testing the educational and social impact of digital nature connections across genres and platforms 
• The use of portable, personalised, automated and/or ubiquitous technologies in digital eco-pedagogy 
• Digital eco-feminist interventions 
• Digital citizen science initiatives 
• Collaborative Design of digital nature

Full cfp.

How to submit

Please submit full papers of 5000 - 7000 words (including bibliography) to

bronwin.patrickson@southwales.ac.uk by Dec 31, 2019.

Important dates

Submission deadline: Dec 31st 2019, 12.00 (GMT)

Notifications: Feb 1 2020 (at the latest)