Promoting critical digital literacy in the leisure-time center: Views and practices among Swedish leisure-time teachers
This article examines how Swedish leisure-time teachers work to develop critical digital literacy among students, with a particular focus on understanding Internet advertising. Through 20 in-depth interviews, the study explores the various…
Reconceptualising critical digital literacy.
This paper argues that the concept of “critical digital literacy” should to be reconsidered due to the evolving digital practices of young people. It contrasts traditional approaches focused on critically consuming digital…
Situated data analysis: a new method for analysing encoded power relationships in social media platforms and apps
This paper proposes “situated data analysis” as a new method to examine how data is constructed, framed, and processed on digital platforms, illustrated through a case study of the Strava app. It…
Data fail: Teaching data literacy with African diaspora digital humanities
This paper investigates the authors’ collaboration with undergraduate students at Salem State University in data curation and visualization. It asserts that data-driven strategies in African diaspora digital humanities can improve data literacy…
Simulacra and simulation
The book explores contemporary culture by shifting away from Marxist and Freudian frameworks to develop a new theory centered on cultural expenditure rather than economic production. It introduces the concepts of simulacrum…
ICTs for the poorest of the rural poor
The article highlights the essential role of ICTs in rural development, focusing on their potential to improve social services, income-generating activities, and governance. Despite these benefits, rural populations in India, especially the…
Disruptive play or platform colonialism? The contradictory dynamics of Google expeditions and educational virtual reality
This paper explores the implementation of Google Expeditions (GE), a virtual reality toolkit for classrooms, through the “pioneer program” in the UK. It examines the contradictory dynamics of GE, where users experience…
Social Theory After the Internet: Media, Technology and Globalization
The book examines how the internet has transformed society over the last 25 years, indicating that conventional communication theories are not adequate for comprehending the digital world. In his study, Ralph Schroeder…
Diminishing distance or increasing learning capacity?
This article examines the role of the Information Society in reshaping rural areas with a focus on the EU’s experience. It explores how technological advancements, such as better access to information and…
Computing machinery and intelligence
Turing’s book shifts focus from questioning whether machines can think to whether they can perform different actions from those of human thinkers. Turing argues that the requirement for evaluating machines is their…
