1984 according to Apple: The digital revolution – and the corporate synchronization of the media citizen in the Swedish K12 curricula
2017 (English)In: The revolutionary imaginary: Visual culture in an age of political turbulence, 2017Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2017.
Keywords [en]
mediatization, historical semantics, revolution, critical curriculum studies, digitalization
National Category
Media and Communications
Research subject
Critical and Cultural Theory
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34131OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-34131DiVA, id: diva2:1173663
Conference
The revolutionary imaginary, Vilnius, November 30- December 1, 2017
Projects
Educating Media Citizens and the Mediatization of School: Curriculas, Educational materials, Teachers
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P15-0304:1
Note
Starting with Apple's 1984 ad for the Macintosh PC, I discuss the ongoing “digital revolution” in the classroom in an analysis of the historical semantics (c.f Koselleck, 1985/2004) of the term “digital competence” This is a central term for OECD and EU and a part in the neoliberal governance of education (Drotner et.al, 2017; Wallis & Buckingham, 2013). In 2016 digital competence was added onto the Swedish K12 curricular (Lgr 11). To be able to follow the corporate synchronization of digital competence with the tradition of critical media literacy (c.f. Kellner & Share, 2007) I combine mediatization theory (Hepp, 2012; Lundby, 2014) with curricular theory (Popkewitz, 2015) and a critical understanding of the digitalization of education (Selwyn, 2014). I end by asking how the ongoing global takeover of education can be met by a non-individualistic and progressive pedagogy based on a civic rather than instrumental understanding of “communication” (c.f. Carey 1989, Gordon & Mihailidis, 2016).
2018-01-122018-01-122018-01-15Bibliographically approved