Send video or audio essays, photographs, mixed media, prose!
The editors of Mediapolis are soliciting student responses to the COVID-19 pandemic for a special installment of the Student Voices section of the journal. Students are welcome to respond in a multitude of ways, whether through a video and/or audio essay, photographs, mixed media, prose, or a combination of these. We are at an unprecedented moment in history, and the effect of this crisis on students is particularly acute. Although the journal focuses on issues of media and cities, we invite a range of responses, including, but not limited to, how students are coping with school shutdowns and remote instruction, reflections on experiences of grief and loss, how the pandemic has altered students’ everyday lives and experiences in both public and private spaces, reflections on the “new normal,” imaginations of the kind of spaces, places, cultures, and experiences we would like to build after the pandemic. These are just a few possible ideas, but we welcome students’ to respond in other ways that they see fit. You can check out the Student Voices section of the journal here to get a sense of the kind of work we have published in this section in the past. Students can email their submissions directly to Helen Morgan Parmett at hxmorgan@uvm.edu and Conn Holohan at conn.holohan@nuigalway.ie with the subject line “Pandemic Responses.”
Posted: April 29, 2020, 7:07 PM