Call for Book Chapters
New Realities and New Pathways: Mediated Communication Pedagogy Revisited
Editors: Ahmet Atay and Deanna L. Fassett
Deadline for proposals (no more than 500 words): February 20, 2023
We seek chapters that explore and engage with mediated critical communication pedagogy in a post-pandemic higher education landscape. Our earlier work framed “mediated” in pre-pandemic terms, as the use of tools (whether traditional forms of media like films or more “new” forms, such as social media platforms and posting) that impede, enhance or transform teaching and learning environments that strive for social justice. The last three years have transformed our understanding of “mediated” to include the question of instructional modality: How does mediated critical communication pedagogy emerge in fully onsite, fully online or hybrid/hyflex settings? How have our disciplinary understandings of “mediated” become more nuanced and expansive, and in what ways have they become more intractable and rooted in romanticization and demonization of instructional modalities? Here we hope to learn how others have answered our call (Fassett and Atay, 2022, p. 148) for unsentimental appraisals of instructional modality, of whether and how we have mediated ourselves and others these past three years. We note that while modality shapes how we learn, we are also curious about students’ and instructors’ identities in relation to media, mediated experiences and phenomena and modality. Chapters may address, but are by no means limited to, the following questions:
- How do our questions about pedagogy change when we no longer assume a hierarchical relationship between a “face-to-face” and an online rhetorical situation?
- What is the interaction between modality and access? How do different modalities hail different learners? In what ways do different modalities forestall and/or enable our efforts toward equity, inclusion, accessibility, belonging, and justice?
- What steps should we take to better understand the ways educational technology companies use (and sell) our (and our students’) data? In what ways can we become critical consumers of these tools and encourage the same of our students?
- How do instructors and students restore/nurture trust “post”-pandemic?
- What does digital empowerment look like for historically marginalized and underserved learners and teachers?
- How should we frame, understand, and explore mediated experiences and phenomena in teaching and learning? In what ways do more nuanced understandings of mediation and modality improve our understandings of communication, community, culture, knowledge, and power?
- What kinds of opportunities would critical mediated pedagogies offer to better understand space and time in relation to teaching and learning?
Please send proposals of no more than 500 words to aatay@wooster.edu and deanna.fassett@sjsu.edu by February 20, 2023. Chapter submissions of approximately 5,000-6,000 words in length will be due by July 1, 2023 with citations prepared in APA format. We welcome inquiries from authors.