E-learning and Digital Cultures 2011

Core

Block 1

• Bayne, S. (2010). Academetron, automaton, phantom: uncanny digital pedagogies. London Review of Education, vol 8, no 1, 5-13.
• Bell, D (2001) Storying cyberspace 1: material and symbolic stories, chapter 2 of An introduction to cybercultures. Abingdon: Routledge. pp6-29. [e-book] [PDF] (To access the e-book, choose ‘UK Access management federation’ from the drop down menu and click Go. Log in with EASE.)
• Carpenter, R (2009) Boundary negotiations: electronic environments as interface. Computers and Composition. 26, 138-148.
• Hand, M (2008) Hardware to everywhere: narratives of promise and threat, chapter 1 of Making digital cultures: access, interactivity and authenticity. Aldershot: Ashgate. pp 15-42.
• Kress, G (2005) Gains and losses: new forms of texts, knowledge and learning. Computers and Composition. 22(1), 5-22.
• Thomas, S et al (2007) Transliteracy: crossing divides. First Monday. 12(12). [web site]

Block 2

• Bell, David (2001) Community and cyberculture, chapter 5 of An introduction to cybercultures. Abingdon: Routledge. pp92-112 [e-book] [PDF] (To access the e-book, choose ‘UK Access management federation’ from the drop down menu and click Go. Log in with EASE.)
• Hine, C (2000) The virtual objects of ethnography, chapter 3 of Virtual ethnography. London: Sage. pp41-66
• Kozinets, R. V. (2010) Chapter 2 ‘Understanding Culture Online’, Netnography: doing ethnographic research online. London: Sage. pp. 21-40

Block 3

• Edwards, R. (2010). The end of lifelong learning: A post-human condition? Studies in the Education of Adults, 42/1, 5-17.
• Haraway, D. (2000). A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late 20th Century. in D Bell and A Kennedy, The Cybercultures Reader. Routledge.
• Hayles, N.K. (2006). Unfinished Work: From Cyborg to Cognisphere. Theory Culture Society, 23/7-8.
• Hayles, N.K. (1999). Toward embodied virtuality, chapter 1 of How we became posthuman: virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature and informatics. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. pp1-25
• Pedersen, H. (2010). Is the posthuman educable? On the convergence of educational philosophy, animal studies, and posthumanist theory. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, vol 31, no 2, 237-250.
• Pickering, A. (2005). Asian eels and global warming: a posthumanist perspective on society and the environment. Ethics and the Environment, 10(2), 29-43.

Secondary

Block 1

• Johnston, R (2009) Salvation or destruction: metaphors of the internet. First Monday, 14(4). [web site]
• Julier, G (2006) From visual culture to design culture, Design issues, 22 (1), 64-76.
• Merchant, G (2007) Mind the gap(s): discourses and discontinuity in digital literacies, E-learning, 4 (3), 241-255.
• Poster, M (2006) The good, the bad and the virtual, chapter 7 of Information please: culture and politics in the age of digital machines. Duke University Press. pp.139-160.
• Rose, Gillian (2007) Researching visual materials: towards a critical visual methodology, chapter 1 of Visual methodologies: an introduction to the interpretation of visual materials. London: Sage. pp.1-27.
• Spalter, A M and van Dam, A (2008) Digital visual literacy, Theory into practice, 47, 93-101.
• Sterne, J (2006) The historiography of cyberculture, chapter 1 of Critical cyberculture studies. New York University Press. pp.17-28.

Block 2

• Bardzell, S and Odom, W (2008) The Experience of Embodied Space in Virtual Worlds: An Ethnography of a Second Life Community. Space and Culture 11(3), 239-259.
• Chan, A (2008) The Dynamics of Motherhood Performance: Hong Kong’s Middle Class Working Mothers On- and Off-Line. Sociological Research Online. 13(4). [web site]
• Clari, M (unpublished, 2009) A Flickr ethnography
• Gatson, S and Zweerink, A (2004) Ethnography online: ‘natives’ practising and inscribing community. Qualitative Research, 4(2), 179-200.
• Gillen, G (2009) Literacy practices in Schome Park: a virtual literacy ethnography, Journal of Research in Reading, 32(1), 57-74.
• Rheingold, H (2000) Introduction to The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. London: MIT Press. [web site]
• Michael Wesch’s Digital Ethnography blog [web site]

Block 3

• Angus, T, Cook, I, Evans, J et al (2001) A Manifesto for Cyborg Pedagogy? International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, vol 10, no 2, pp.195-201.
• Badmington, N. (2003). Theorizing Posthumanism. Cultural Critique, 53.
• Bryson, M., MacIntosh, L., Jordan, S. and Lin, H-L. (2006). Virtually Queer? Homing Devices, Mobility, and Un/Belongings. Canadian Journal of Communication, 31.
• Castree, N. and Nash, C. (2004) Mapping posthumanism: an exchange. Environment and Planning A, 36, 1341-1363.
• Coyle, F. (2006). Posthuman geographies? Biotechnology, nature and the demise of the autonomous human subject. Social & Cultural Geography, 7/4.
• Gajjala, R. and Mamidipuni, A. (2002). Gendering Processes within Technological Environments: A Cyberfeminist Issue. Rhizomes 4. [web site]
• Gies, L. (2008). How material are cyberbodies? Broadband Internet and embodied subjectivity. Crime Media Culture 4/3.
• Gough, N. (2004). RhizomANTically becoming-cyborg: performing posthuman pedagogies. Educational Philosophy and Theory, vol 36, no 3, 253-265
• McWilliam, E and Palmer, P. (1995). Teaching tech(no)bodies: open learning and postgraduate pedagogy. Australian Universities’ Review, 2.

• Muri, A. (2003). Of Shit and the Soul: Tropes of Cybernetic Disembodiment in Contemporary Culture. Body & Society, 9/3.
• Nakamura, L. (2008). Cyberrace. Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 123/5.
• Usher, R. and Edwards, R. (1998). Lost and found: ‘cyberspace’ and the (dis)location of teaching, learning and research. SCUTREA 1998, Exeter.
• Shields, R. (2006). Flânerie for Cyborgs. Theory Culture Society, 23/7-8.
• Stables, A. and Scott, W. (2001) Post-human liberal pragmatism? Environmental education out of modernity. Journal of Philosophy of Education. vol 35, no 2, 269-278.
• Winkelmann, C. (1995). Electronic Literacy, Critical Pedagogy, and Collaboration: A Case for Cyborg Writing. Computers and the Humanities, 29.