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dc.contributor.editorStocchetti, Matteo
dc.date.issued2020
dc.date.submitted2020-09-21T12:06:00Z
dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41638
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30565
dc.description.abstract"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 – 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."
dc.languageEnglish
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTC Communication studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Educationen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNA Philosophy and theory of educationen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciencesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Y Children’s, Teenage and Educational::YP Educational material::YPJ Educational: Humanities and social sciences, general::YPJJ Educational: Social sciences, social studiesen_US
dc.subject.othercapitalism
dc.subject.otherknowledge production
dc.subject.othercritical theory
dc.subject.othersocial media
dc.subject.othercritical education
dc.subject.otherBildung
dc.titleThe Digital Age and Its Discontents
dc.title.alternativeCritical Reflections in Educatione
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.33134/HUP-4
oapen.relation.isPublishedBycf5d0b3e-caff-497f-94d0-292cc4b4fce2
oapen.relation.isbn9789523690127
oapen.relation.isbn9789523690141
oapen.relation.isbn9789523690158
oapen.pages274
oapen.place.publicationHelsinki


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