The post digital challenge of redefining education from the margins

Petar Jandrić, Sarah Hayes

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Abstract

This paper explores relationships between knowledge production and academic publication and shows that the current political economy of mainstream academic publishing has resulted from a complex interplay between large academic publishers, academics, and hacker-activists. The process of publishing is a form of ‘social production’ that takes place across the economy, politics and culture, all of which are in turn accommodating both old and new technology in our postdigital age. Technologies such as software cannot be separated from human labour, academic centres cannot be looked at in isolation from their margins, and the necessity of transdisciplinary approaches does not imply the disappearance of traditional disciplines. In the postdigital age, the concept of the margins has not disappeared, but it has become somewhat marginal in its own right. We need to develop a new language of describing what we mean by ‘marginal voices’ in the social relations between knowledge production and academic publication. Universities require new strategies for cohabitation of, and collaboration between, various socio-technological actors, and new postdigital politics and practice of knowledge production and academic publishing.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)381-393
Number of pages13
JournalLearning, Media and Technology
Volume44
Issue number3
Early online date27 Feb 2019
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 27 Feb 2019

Keywords

  • Academic publishing
  • open access
  • shadow libraries
  • hackers
  • activists
  • margins

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