and let me make your life more complicated. Since 2000 or so, there has been - at first, nominal - use of the notion of "post-digital": first in music aesthetics but now 14 - 17 years later it's becoming increasingly common (David Berry, Berry and Fagerjord, Simon Lindgren) as a way of signaling _not_ some sort of "anti-digital" era, but rather, in effect, we've gotten over the all but exclusive fascination with and focus on "the digital." Especially as "the digital" often implies some sort of exclusion of the analogue (yes, I know the distinction is contested, perhaps useless in some contexts) - post-digital implies a somewhat more balanced / comprehensive attention of the offline / online / onlife aspects of the lifeworld that are not reducible to "the digital". I find the notion important in any number of ways - starting pedagogically. Why have Apple, Microsoft, Lenovo, et al rather suddenly been intent on selling us styli and pencils to play and work with? In part because novelty helps generate sales (color me skeptical ...) - but also in part as some decade or so of research shows some advantages in learning and thinking when we activate more of the body and thus the brain with a pencil or stylus. I also see more and more scepticism regarding exclusive use of tablets, starting in kindergarten, etc. Post-digital also applies to social robots (including sexbots): unlike the virtual assistants that may be perfectly functional in non-embodied ways, any number of social robots (including sexbots as well as any number of previously developed sex toys under the name of tele-dildonics) depend on mimicking embodied forms of human communication. "Digital detox" along with (disconnected) mindfulness are no longer just the vocabulary of cranky old men (guilty) - but are growth industries, most especially in techno-optimistic communities and cultures. And then there's the good old fashioned and re-surging analogue world of vinyl records, film - and board games, with sales in the US up some 27% in 2017. Perhaps most importantly, following the euphoria over the (mislabeled) "Twitter Revolutions" and "Facebook Revolutions" of the putative Arab Springs in 2011 - the Arab Winters set in with a vengeance by 2013; in part as it because clear that digitally-centered activism is perhaps a necessary but by no means sufficient condition for significant political change. There's a wealth of work in these directions by many of the most prominent folk on this list. I have also found Merlyna Lim's observations and conclusions from her 10-year longitudinal studies to be most helpful here: successful protests – ones that further lead to enduring political and social change – depend not solely on social media: in addition, “the human body” is “the most essential and central instrument” in what she characterizes as “Hybrid human-communication-information networks that include social media” (2018: 129). Again, none of this (along with some other examples) entails "anti-digital" - but it does suggest to me that "digital" as a term for describing / defining our era for analytical and philosophical purposes is just not adequate. But I may be wrong. You see, you hear these funny voices in the tower of song... (Leonard Cohen) still, I hope this might be nominally helpful. And good luck! - charles ess On 02/03/2019 17:30, Livingstone,S wrote:
Maybe a helpful starting point? https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2015/05/26/why-label-our-tim...
Best, Sonia
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of anna conover Sent: 02 March 2019 15:50 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Defining 'digital age'
Dear fellow AOIR members,
I am writing about education in the digital age but I'm having a hard time pinning down a definition of the extremely broad term 'digital age'. Does anyone have any leads?
Very broadly, I am most interested in the challenges posed by globally circulating discourses when we think that these discourses are 'nourished' only by certain voices and that meaning is constructed contextually.
Thanks!
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