{"product_id":"posthumanism-and-the-digital-university-9781350194038","title":"Posthumanism and the Digital University","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a commonplace in educational policy and theory to claim that digital technology has transformed' the university, the nature of learning and even the essence of what it means to be a scholar or a student. However, these claims have not always been based on strong research evidence. What are students and scholars actually \u003ci\u003edoing \u003c\/i\u003ein the day-to-day life of the digital university? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book examines in detail how the world of the digital interacts with texts, artefacts, devices and humans, in the contemporary university setting. Weaving together perspectives from a range of thinkers and disciplinary sources, Lesley Gourlay draws on ideas from \u003ci\u003eposthuman \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003enew materialist \u003c\/i\u003etheory in particular, to open up our understanding about how digital knowledge practices operate. She proposes that digital engagement in the university should not be regarded as virtual' or disembodied, but instead may be understood as a complex set of entanglements of the body, texts \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA robust and refreshing contribution to digital and posthuman scholarship ... In its ambition and skill, Gourlay’s book will appeal to researchers and practitioners interested in the increasing digitalization and datafication of higher education. * Postdigital Science and Education *\u003cbr\u003ePosthuman and new materialist ideas provide fertile and underexplored terrain for examining the contemporary university through in-depth engagement with ‘the fine-grained, detailed “nitty-gritty” of everyday higher education as it unfolds, in a mesh of bodies, nonhuman actors, and technologies’ (19). As such, this is a book that should be of interest to anyone who wants to understand what actually happens in universities today. * Learning, Media and Technology *\u003cbr\u003eThis book undeniably provides both the inspiration and means to bring posthumanism ‘down to earth’, and to shine a much-needed critical light on the corridors and conduits of the digital university. * Educational Philosophy Theory *\u003cbr\u003eA very interesting and provocative take on the idea of what it means to be a “text-consuming humanist” in these digital times we are now living in. Gourlay poses great questions for future thought and implications. * James Pfrehm, Associate Professor of Language and Linguistics, Ithaca College, USA *\u003cbr\u003eThis book shifts discussions of digital learning in tertiary education in significant ways, arguing that notions of disembodied, ‘virtual’ interactions overlook the material entanglements of people, knowledge practices, texts and artefacts. Flipped classrooms, online learning and other recent trends are reactionary rather than revolutionary developments. Challenging the idea of the individual human subject engaged in isolated study, Lesley Gourlay presents an absorbing alternative vision of digital epistemic practices seen through a more-than-human lens. * Alastair Pennycook, Distinguished Professor of Language, Society and Education, University of Technology Sydney, Australia *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1. More Than Human 2. Matter 3. Body 4. Presence 5. Interfaces 6. Wayfaring 7. Quantum 8. Document 9. Conclusions, or So What? References Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742429282647,"sku":"9781350194038","price":34.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350194038.jpg?v=1758384927","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/posthumanism-and-the-digital-university-9781350194038","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}