Indexed by the Directory of Open Access Journals ISSN 2754-0073
The Media Education Research Journal – a twice-yearly peer-reviewed academic journal
MERJ 11.1 (Spring 2022) will be a special issue focusing on children’s media experiences, but we are accepting general articles for issue 11.2 (to be published in Autumn 2022). Please send submissions, queries, or outlines of possible submissions to: merj@bournemouth.ac.uk
Current issue:
MERJ 10.1&2 (Autumn 2021)
Editorial
- Mark Readman, The affordances of Open Access in the age of online scholarship
Articles
- Linus Andersson, It’s critical: The role of critical thinking in media and information literacy
- Jude William Genilo, Bangladeshi students’ motivation, aspiration and satisfaction regarding journalism education
- Sergei Glotov & Sirkku Kotilainen, Teaching intercultural film literacy
- Helen Liu, Social implications of adolescents engaging with racist trends on TikTok
Research Forum
- Carol Arcus & Chelsea Attwell, Building agency through play–based collaborative learning: A primary students’ Environment–as–Media inquiry
- Funke Oyebanjo, Lucy Brown & Rosamund Davies, Teaching media production: Understanding unconscious bias in creative idea development
Book Reviews

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