35.2333, Calls: English; Applied Linguistics/ System - "Critical digital literacy: Language, technology, and power" (Jrnl)

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Date: 27-Aug-2024
From: Christoph Hafner [elhafner at cityu.edu.hk]
Subject: English; Applied Linguistics/ System - "Critical digital literacy: Language, technology, and power" (Jrnl)


Call for Papers:

Special issue of System  | Critical digital literacy: Language,
technology and power.

This special issue provides a broader picture of digital technologies,
their materiality and their interconnectedness, and applies a more
critical lens to understand how these tools operate.

Guest editors:
Ron Darvin, The University of British Columbia
Christoph A. Hafner, City University of Hong Kong

Special issue information:

Recognizing how digital technologies have the power to shape the
performance of identities, the distribution of knowledge and the
construction of social networks online, how can language learners
exercise greater agency as they engage with these tools (Darvin &
Hafner, 2022)? Responding to this question, this Special Issue draws
on the various conceptualizations of critical digital literacy to
examine how learners can develop a critical awareness of their own
digital practices. Whether it involves a conscious stance to
interrogate digital media (Jones & Hafner, 2021) or to examine how
power operates in digitally mediated interactions (Darvin, 2017),
critical digital literacy offers a way to understand how various
ideologies, inequalities and modes of exclusion are woven into the
layers of digital mediation. It enables learners to dissect how
platform designs and sociotechnical structures (Darvin, 2023),
algorithms (Jones, 2019) and existing cultures-of-use (Thorne, 2016)
can shape dispositions and practices, reproduce dominant discourses,
as well as index and serve the specific interests of powerful others.

Proposed articles should be based on empirical studies, and provide
insights on how critical digital literacy is conceptualized, enacted
or needed in various contexts.

Topics of interest can include but are not limited to:
 - how unequal access to resources shapes digital literacy practices
 - how platform designs and algorithms index specific ideologies
 - how digital technologies can construct and reproduce inequalities
and modes of exclusion
 - how digital media contributes to the spread and amplification of
disinformation
 - how learners enact digital literacies that contribute to social
justice and transformation
 - how teachers enable the development of critical digital literacy.

Manuscript submission information:

To submit a proposal, prepare a 500-word abstract for a full-length
article. Email this abstract to cdl.system.si at gmail.com by including
it in your message rather than attaching it as a PDF. Please include
the following in this order:
 - Title
 - Name/s of the author/s, institutional affiliation/s
 - Email of corresponding author
 - Abstract
 - 50-word bio of each author

The deadline for submission of proposals is September 30, 2024.
Announcement of shortlisted abstracts: October 15, 2024
Final deadline for submission of shortlisted articles: 30th January
2025

References:
Darvin, R. (2017). Language, ideology, and critical digital literacy.
(Invited contribution). In S. Thorne & S. May (eds.) Language,
Education and Technology, Encyclopedia of Language and Education, vol.
9, (pp.17-30). Switzerland: Springer.
Darvin, R. (2023). Sociotechnical structures, materialist semiotics,
and online language learning.
Language Learning & Technology, 27(2), 28-45.
Darvin, R., & Hafner, C. A. (2022). Digital literacies in TESOL:
Mapping out the terrain. TESOL Quarterly, 56(3), 865-882.
Jones, R. H. (2021). The text is reading you: Teaching language in the
age of the algorithm. Linguistics and Education, 62, 100750.
Jones, R. H., & Hafner, C. A. (2021). Understanding digital
literacies: A practical introduction, (2nd ed). Routledge.
Thorne, S.L., 2016. Cultures-of-use and morphologies of communicative
action. Language Learning and Technology, 20(2), 185–191.

More details can be found at the official call here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/system/about/call-for-papers



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