Routledge Research in Media Literacy and Education

Media literacy is now established by Unesco as a human right, and the field of media literacy education is both growing and diverse. The series speaks to two recurring concerns in this field: What difference does media make to literacy and how should education respond to this? Research and practice has aimed to protect against negative media messages and deconstruct ideology through critical thinking, developing media literacy through creative production and a social participatory approach which focuses on developing active citizens to play a constructive role in media democracy.

This series is dedicated to a more extensive exploration of the known territories of media literacy and education, while also seeking out ‘other’ cartographies. As such, it encompasses a diverse, international range of contexts that share a conceptual framework at the intersection of Cultural Studies / Critical Theories, (New) Social Literacies and Critical Pedagogy. The series is especially interested in how media literacy and education relates to feminism, critical race theory, social class, post-colonial and intersectional approaches and how these perspectives, political objectives and international contexts can ‘decenter’ the field of media literacy education.

The series editors are now seeking new proposals, with a particular interest in two areas of research:　

• Geo-culturally situated media literacy and education research – in particular, from the Global South and areas hitherto under-represented in the field’s published outputs and so far not included in the series; 　
• New theoretical applications – work with connects particular theoretical approaches or movements to media literacy which have thus far not been included in the series. 　

Please send initial expressions of interest in proposing a title for this series to [email protected] and [email protected]

Following this, authors / editors with proposals meeting the aims and scope for the series will be invited to submit full proposals to Routledge.