TY - JOUR
T1 - Mapping and tracing the postdigital
T2 - Approaches and parameters of postdigital research
AU - Fawns, Tim
AU - Ross, Jen
AU - Carbonel, Henrietta
AU - Noteboom, Joe
AU - Finnegan-Dehn, Sam
AU - Raver, McKenzie
N1 - Funding Information:
Thanks to the students of our Postdigital Society pilot and to Petar Jandrić for his generous support in the writing of this paper.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s).
PY - 2023/2/17
Y1 - 2023/2/17
N2 - The launch of Postdigital Science and Education helped generate a burst of new scholarship about this emerging turn in educational research and theory. Yet, what it means to do postdigital research remains obscure to many. Ongoing debates around definitions, combined with the complexity of analysing digital activity within rich contexts that are also social, material, political, economic, and so on, make it challenging to understand what constitutes postdigital research. Meanings of the postdigital emerge from within the processes of postdigital research. Further, while some individual contributions to postdigital research may be grounded in particular disciplines, we argue that postdigital research, in general, benefits from transdisciplinary knowledge. All of this points to a need for flexibility, and principled, rather than prescriptive, research and scholarship practices. It situates postdigital research in the tradition of compositional and inventive research approaches, and this paper traces that relationship.
AB - The launch of Postdigital Science and Education helped generate a burst of new scholarship about this emerging turn in educational research and theory. Yet, what it means to do postdigital research remains obscure to many. Ongoing debates around definitions, combined with the complexity of analysing digital activity within rich contexts that are also social, material, political, economic, and so on, make it challenging to understand what constitutes postdigital research. Meanings of the postdigital emerge from within the processes of postdigital research. Further, while some individual contributions to postdigital research may be grounded in particular disciplines, we argue that postdigital research, in general, benefits from transdisciplinary knowledge. All of this points to a need for flexibility, and principled, rather than prescriptive, research and scholarship practices. It situates postdigital research in the tradition of compositional and inventive research approaches, and this paper traces that relationship.
KW - postdigital research
KW - sociomaterial
KW - speculative methods
KW - compositional methodology
KW - epistemology
KW - post-qualitative
UR - https://www.springer.com/journal/42438
U2 - 10.1007/s42438-023-00391-y
DO - 10.1007/s42438-023-00391-y
M3 - Article
SN - 2524-4868
JO - Postdigital Science and Education
JF - Postdigital Science and Education
ER -