Towards a radical digital citizenship in digital education

Akwugo Emejulu; Callum Mcgregor

doi:10.1080/17508487.2016.1234494

Towards a radical digital citizenship in digital education

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In this article, we attempt to define and explore a concept of ‘radical digital citizenship’ and its implications for digital education. We argue that the ‘digital’ and its attendant technologies are constituted by on-going materialist struggles for equality and justice in the Global South and North which are erased in the dominant literature and debates in digital education. We assert the need for politically informed understandings of the digital, technology and citizenship and for a ‘radical digital citizenship’ in which critical social relations with technology are made visible and emancipatory technological practices for social justice are developed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	131-147
Number of pages	18
Journal	Critical Studies in Education
Volume	60
Issue number	1
Early online date	19 Sep 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2016.1234494
Publication status	Published - 2 Jan 2019

Keywords

Black Lives Matter
digital activism
digital capitalism
digital citizenship
digital education
digital labour
digital literacy
digital materialism
social justice
social movements

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