Routledge
248 pages | 5 B/W Illus.
Communication and Learning in an Age of Digital Transformation provides cross-disciplinary perspectives on digitization as social transformation and its impact on communication and learning. This work presents openness within its interpretation of the digital and its impact on learning and communication, acknowleging historical contexts and contemporary implications emerging from discourse on digitization.
The book presents a triangulation of different research perspectives. These perspectives, which range from digital resistance parks and cyber-religious questions to cultural-scientific media-theoretical reflections, point to the performative openness of the analysis. The book represents an interdisciplinary approach and opens a space for understanding the social complexity of digital transformations in teaching and learning.
This book will be of great interest to academics, post graduate students and researchers in the field of digital learning, communication and education research
I Introduction to Learning in an Age of Digital Transformation
Introduction
Bateson’s Dialogic Pragmatics: The Relational Nature of Learning and Knowledge
Ronald C. Arnett
Communication Transformations throughout the History of the World’s Fairs
Susan Mancino
Digital Transformation of Communication and Learning—A Heuristic Overview
David Kergel and Birte Heidkamp-Kergel
II Communication in an Age of Digital Transformation
Neodialectic: Media and Resistances in the Digital Age
Arkaitz Letamendia
Technesis and Life Writing. On Discourse and (Digital) Technology.
Tadeusz Rachwał
Dark Waters Beneath the Digital Surface
Patrik Kjærsdam Telléus
Inhabiting the Digital: Habituating Humanness into Digital Ecologies
Anthony M. Wachs
Religions and Communication: Digital Transformations
Andrea Catellani
III Learning in an Age of Digital Transformation
Communication and Control. Scenarios of Digital Learning.
Anke Redecker
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly—How Different Teachers Will Construe Digitalization Differently
Michael Paulsen
Consumption and Communication: Digital Learning in Liquid Modernity
Rüdiger Wild
New Communication – New Learning: The Transformation of Higher Education by Mobile Learning
Claudia de Witt and Christina Gloerfeld
Perspectives on Digitization of German Higher Education
David Kergel and Birte Heidkamp-Kergel
Nothing to See? How to Address Algorithms and Their Impact on the Perception of the World.
Dan Verständig
IV Conclusion
The process of digitalization is leading to a fundamental social change affecting all spheres of social life. In the pedagogical field there is a need for re-structuring key concepts such as learning, teaching and education that considers socio-economic and cultural changes.
Perspectives on Education in the Digital Age explores the process of coming to terms with socio-economic and socio-cultural shifts arising from digitalization and discusses this process with reference to its effects on education. The Series provides a forum for discussion of critical, integrative analyses of social transformations in the digital age, drawn from different fields such as the humanities, social sciences and economics. The aim of the Series is to analyse the implications of cultural change on education in the digital age by bringing together transdisciplinary dialogue and different theoretical approaches.
