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Designs for Experimentation and
Inquiry examines how digital media is reconfiguring the established worlds of research, education, and professional practice. It reflects on the theoretical, methodological, and ethical issues shaping contemporary engagements with digital learning.
List of contents
List of illustrations List of contributors Preface Acknowledgements Introduction
Part I: Digital Technologies, Learning and Forms of Agency 1. Concepts, materiality and emerging cognitive habits: The case of calculating carbon footprints for understanding environmental impact 2. Learning as Gap-Closing: Investigating digitalized dialogues 3. Digital inquiry into emerging issues of public concern: Controversy mapping in a Swedish school context
Part II: Digital Design Experiments and Learning 4. Prototype Driven Learning and Inquiry: A Case Study of Architectural Design and Conceptualization 5. Imagining, Designing and Exhibiting Architecture in the Digital Landscape 6. Thinking Through the Databody: Sprints as Experimental Situations
Part III: Investigating Digitally Mediated Collaborations 7.
Transdisciplinary potentials: arts based methods, social science and digital bodies 8. Culture and Collaboration in Digitally Mediated Settings 9. The epistemology of mobilizing citizens in the sciences: Tensions in epistemic cultures of contribution and ideals of science
Part IV: Ethical Digital Inquiry and Design 10. Everything old is new again: The ethics of digital inquiry and its design 11. A "situated ethics" for researching teacher professionals' emerging Facebook group discussions
About the author
Åsa Mäkitalo is Professor of Education. She served as co-director (2006-2019) of the Linnaeus Centre for Research on Learning, Interaction and Mediated Communication in Contemporary Society and coordinates LETStudio since 2010 at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Todd E. Nicewonger is Project Director for Destination Areas at Virginia Tech, USA.
Mark Elam is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Work Science at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Summary
Designs for Experimentation and Inquiry examines how digital media is reconfiguring the established worlds of research, education, and professional practice. It reflects on the theoretical, methodological, and ethical issues shaping contemporary engagements with digital learning.
