CFP: Teaching Media Quarterly

There are two different call for papers for the Teaching Media Quarterly. One is for the Summer 2015 edition and the other is for the Fall 2015 one. The Summer 2015 edition will be focusing on "Teaching Media Production" and the deadline for submissions is June 19th. The Fall 2015 quarterly will spotlight "Religion and Media" and the submission deadline is ongoing. For the "Teaching Media Production", the following are the questions they are looking for people to answer:

-How can the insights of media studies scholarship shape strategies for teaching production?
-What are some possibilities for helping students use media production to advance media literacy? To effect social change?
-What are the possibilities for transforming students’ existing commitments to media production and social networking into politicized community engagement? How can students share their media productions in ways that develop their notion of themselves as citizens and political actors?

The "Religion and Media" quarterly seeking answers to these specific questions:

-How do questions of class, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, and ability emerge in media narratives and rhetoric about religion?
-How do representations of religious persons, traditions, and themes in media articulate struggles over competing cultural values and political and economic imperatives?
-How have convergence culture and social media helped to reinvigorate religious discourse?
-How do political economy, environmentalist concerns, and/or media labor inform the various points of intersection between religion and media?
-How do media about religion become sites at which good citizenship is constructed and cultivated?

Submission Guidelines:
1) a title
2) an overview and comprehensive rationale (using accessible language explain the purpose of the assignment(s), define key terms, and situate in relevant literature) (250-500 words)
3) a general timeline
4) a detailed lesson plan and assignment instructions
5) teaching materials (handouts, rubrics, discussion prompts, viewing guides, etc.)
6) a full bibliography of readings, links, and/or media examples
7) a short biography (100-150 words)

For more information, please refer to: http://www.teachingmedia.org/call-for-proposals/