Cyborg Ontologies and the Lecturer's Voice: A Posthuman Reading of the "Face-to-Face"

Autor/in	Gourlay, Lesley
Titel	Cyborg Ontologies and the Lecturer's Voice: A Posthuman Reading of the "Face-to-Face"
Quelle	In: Learning, Media and Technology, 37 (2012) 2, S.198-211 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1743-9884
DOI	10.1080/17439884.2012.671773
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Lecture Method; Virtual Classrooms; Handheld Devices; Multimedia Materials; Electronic Publishing; Universities; Higher Education; College Students; Electronic Learning; Educational Technology; Synchronous Communication + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Elektronisches Publizieren; University; Universität; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Collegestudent; Unterrichtsmedien
Abstract	The lecture is often posited as the prototypical "face-to-face" educational encounter, seen as embodying key features of the pre-networked academy. These are implicitly characterised as forms of boundedness or impermeability, in terms of both the physical and temporal context, and the ontological status of the participants and the nature of the event in terms of rhetorical structure. However, the increased ubiquity of digital technologies such as virtual learning environments and networked mobile devices has altered the nature of the lecture in profound ways. Drawing on posthuman theory, this paper will argue that both overt and covert uses of digital media in "face-to-face" educational encounters such as lectures have served to undermine several taken-for-granted binaries, such as: material/virtual, digital/analogue, then/now and here/not here. It will conclude that this breakdown of dualisms--in terms of social and representational practices--repositions lecturers and students as hybridised "cyborg" subjects. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10