The Digital Age and Its Discontents
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The Digital Age and Its Discontents

Critical Reflections in Education

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The Digital Age and Its Discontents

Critical Reflections in Education

About this book

Three decades into the 'digital age', the promises of emancipation of the digital 'revolution' in education are still unfulfilled. Furthermore, digitalization seems to generate new and unexpected challenges ā€“ for example, the unwarranted influence of digital monopolies, the radicalization of political communication, and the facilitation of mass surveillance, to name a few.This volume is a study of the downsides of digitalization and the re-organization of the social world that seems to be associated with it. In a critical perspective, technological development is not a natural but a social process: not autonomous from but very much dependent upon the interplay of forces and institutions in society. While influential forces seek to establish the idea that the practices of formal education should conform to technological change, here we support the view that education can challenge the capitalist appropriation of digital technology and, therefore, the nature and direction of change associated with it.This volume offers its readers intellectual prerequisites for critical engagement. It addresses themes such as Facebook's response to its democratic discontents, the pedagogical implications of algorithmic knowledge and quantified self, as well as the impact of digitalization on academic profession. Finally, the book offers some elements to develop a vision of the role of education: what should be done in education to address the concerns that new communication technologies seem to pose more risks than opportunities for freedom and democracy.

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Information

Publisher
Helsinki University Press
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9789523690127
eBook ISBN
9789523690141

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Contributors
  7. Chapter 1: Introduction: Technology, Society and Education
  8. Chapter 2: The Blind Spots of Digital Innovation Fetishism
  9. Chapter 3: The Screen as Instrument of Freedom and Unfreedom
  10. Chapter 4: Facebookā€™s Response to Its Democratic Discontents: Quality Initiatives, Ideology and Educationā€™s Role
  11. Chapter 5: The Quantified Self and the Digital Making of the Subject
  12. Chapter 6: Can Algorithmic Knowledge about the Self Be Critical?
  13. Chapter 7: Platform Discontent against the University
  14. Chapter 8: The Technological Imaginary in Education: Myth and Enlightenment in ā€˜Personalized Learningā€™
  15. Chapter 9: Technological Unemployment and Its Educational Discontents
  16. Chapter 10: Pedagogic Fixation
  17. Chapter 11: Bildung in a Digital World: The Case of MOOCs
  18. Afterword: Critical Philosophy of Technological Convergence: Education and the Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Paradigm
  19. Index