Academic domains as political battlegrounds: a global enquiry by 99 academics in the fields of education and technology
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Article Title | Academic domains as political battlegrounds: a global enquiry by 99 academics in the fields of education and technology |
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ERA Journal ID | 30362 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Al Lily, Abdulrahman E. (Author), Foland, Jed (Author), Stoloff, David (Author), Gogus, Aytac (Author), Erguvan, Inan Deniz (Author), Awshwar, Mapotse Tome (Author), Tondeur, Jo (Author), Hammond, Michael (Author), Venter, Isabella M. (Author), Jerry, Paul (Author), Vlachopoulos, Dimitrios (Author), Oni, Aderonke (Author), Liu, Yuliang (Author), Badosek, Radim (Author), Lopez de la Madrid, Maria Cristina (Author), Mazzoni, Elvis (Author), Lee, Hwansoo (Author), Kinley, Khamsum (Author), Kalz, Marco (Author), Sambuu, Uyanga (Author), Bushnaq, Tatiana (Author), Pinkwart, Niels (Author), Adedokun-Shittu, Nafisat Afolake (Author), Zander, Par-Ola Mikael (Author), Oliver, Kevin (Author), Pombo, Lucia Maria Teixeira (Author), Sali, Jale Balaban (Author), Gregory, Sue (Author), Tobgay, Sonam (Author), Joy, Mike (Author), Elen, Jan (Author), Jwaifell, Mustafa Odeh Helal (Author), Said, Mohd Nihra Haruzuan Mohamad (Author), Al-Saggaf, Yeslam (Author), Naaji, Antoanela (Author), White, Julie (Author), Jordan, Kathy (Author), Gerstein, Jackie (Author), Yapici, Ibrahim Umit (Author), Sanga, Camilius (Author), Nleya, Paul T. (Author), Sbihi, Boubker (Author), Lucas, Margarida Rocha (Author), Mbarika, Victor (Author), Reiners, Torsten (Author), Schon, Sandra (Author), Sujo-Montes, Laura (Author), Santally, Mohammad (Author), Hakkinen, Paivi (Author), Al Saif, Abdulkarim (Author), Gegenfurtner, Andreas (Author), Schatz, Steven (Author), Vigil, Virginia Padilla (Author), Tannahill, Catherine (Author), Partida, Siria Padilla (Author), Zhang, Zuochen (Author), Charalambous, Kyriacos (Author), Moreira, António Augusto de Freitas Gonçalves (Author), Coto, Mayela (Author), Laxman, Kumar (Author), Farley, Helen Sara (Author), Gumbo, Mishak T. (Author), Simsek, Ali (Author), Ramganesh, E. (Author), Birzina, Rita (Author), Player-Koro, Catarina (Author), Dumbraveanu, Roza (Author), Ziphorah, Mmankoko (Author), Mohmudally, Nawaz (Author), Thomas, Sarah (Author), Romero, Margarita (Author), Nirmala, Mungamuru (Author), Cifuentes, Lauren (Author), Osaily, Raja Zuhair Khaled (Author), Omoogun, Ajayi Clemency (Author), Seferoglu, S. Sadi (Author), Elçi, Alev (Author), Edyburn, Dave (Author), Moudgalya, Kannan (Author), Ebner, Martin (Author), Bottino, Rosa (Author), Khoo, Elaine (Author), Pedro, Luis (Author), Buarki, Hanadi (Author), Roman-Odio, Clara (Author), Qureshi, Ijaz A. (Author), Khan, Mahbub Ahsan (Author), Thornthwaite, Carrie (Author), Kerimkulova, Sulushash (Author), Downes, Toni (Author), Malmi, Lauri (Author), Bardakci, Salih (Author), Itmazi, Jamil (Author), Rogers, Jim (Author), Rughooputh, Soonil D.D.V. (Author), Akour, Mohammed Ali (Author), Henderson, J. Bryan (Author), de Freitas, Sarah (Author) and Schrader, P. G. (Author) |
Journal Title | Information Development: the international journal for librarians, archivists and information specialists |
Journal Citation | 33 (3), pp. 270-288 |
Number of Pages | 19 |
Year | 2017 |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 0266-6669 |
1741-6469 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/0266666916646415 |
Web Address (URL) | http://idv.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/06/16/0266666916646415.full.pdf+html |
Abstract | This article theorises the functional relationship between the human components (i.e., scholars) and non-human components (i.e., structural configurations) of academic domains. It is organised around the following question: in what ways have scholars formed and been formed by the structural configurations of their academic domain? The article uses as a case study the academic domain of education and technology to examine this question. Its authorship approach is innovative, with a worldwide collection of academics (99 authors) collaborating to address the proposed question based on their reflections on daily social and academic practices. This collaboration followed a three-round process of contributions via e-mail. Analysis of these scholars’ reflective accounts was carried out, and a theoretical proposition was established from this analysis. The proposition is of a mutual (yet not necessarily balanced) power (and therefore political) relationship between the human and non-human constituents of an academic realm, with the two shaping one another. One implication of this proposition is that these non-human elements exist as political ‘actors’, just like their human counterparts, having ‘agency’ – which they exercise over humans. This turns academic domains into political (functional or dysfunctional) ‘battlefields’ wherein both humans and non-humans engage in political activities and actions that form the identity of the academic domain. |
Keywords | education; technology; academia; power; organisational politics; academic domain |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390405. Educational technology and computing |
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Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
Byline Affiliations | King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia |
KPMG, United Kingdom | |
Eastern Connecticut State University, United States | |
Okan University, Turkiye | |
Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait | |
University of South Africa, South Africa | |
Ghent University, Belgium | |
University of Warwick, United Kingdom | |
University of the Western Cape, South Africa | |
Athabasca University, Canada | |
European University Cyprus, Cyprus | |
Covenant University, Nigeria | |
Southern Illinois University, United States | |
University of Ostrava, Czech Republic | |
University of Guadalajara, Mexico | |
University of Bologna, Italy | |
Dankook University, Korea | |
Griffith University | |
Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands | |
National University of Mongolia | |
Al Asmarya Islamic University, Libya | |
Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany | |
Osun State University, Nigeria | |
Aalborg University, Denmark | |
North Carolina State University, United States | |
University of Aveiro, Portugal | |
Anadolu University, Turkiye | |
University of New England | |
Royal University of Bhutan | |
Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium | |
Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Jordan | |
University of Technology Malaysia, Malaysia | |
Charles Sturt University | |
Vasile Goldis Western University of Arad, Romania | |
Victoria University | |
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) | |
Boise State University, United States | |
Dicle University, Turkiye | |
Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania | |
University of Botswana, Botswana | |
Mohammed V University, Morocco | |
Southern University and A&M College, United States | |
Curtin University of Technology | |
Salzburg Research, Austria | |
Northern Arizona University, United States | |
University of Mauritius, Mauritius | |
University of Jyvaskyla, Finland | |
Qassim University, Saudi Arabia | |
Maastricht University, Netherlands | |
University of Massachusetts, United States | |
New Mexico Highlands University, United States | |
Open University of Catalonia, Spain | |
University of Windsor, Canada | |
Frederick University, Cyprus | |
National University of Costa Rica | |
University of Auckland, New Zealand | |
Australian Digital Futures Institute | |
Bharathidasan University, India | |
University of Latvia | |
University of Borås, Sweden | |
Ion Creanga State Pedagogical University, Moldova | |
University of Technology, Mauritius | |
Bridgewater State University, United States | |
Laval University, Canada | |
Adama Science and Technology University, Ethiopia | |
Texas A&M University, United States | |
Alquds Open University, Palestine | |
University of Calabar, Nigeria | |
Hacettepe University, Turkiye | |
Aksaray University, Turkiye | |
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States | |
Indian Institute of Technology, India | |
Graz University of Technology, Austria | |
Institute of Educational Technology, Italy | |
University of Waikato, New Zealand | |
Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, Kuwait | |
Kenyon College, United States | |
University of Lahore, Pakistan | |
University of Dhaka, Bangladesh | |
Lipscomb University, United States | |
Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan | |
Aalto University, Finland | |
Gazisomanpaşa University, Turkiye | |
Palestine Ahliya University, Palestine | |
Utah State University, United States | |
A’Sharqiyah University, Oman | |
Arizona State University, United States | |
Murdoch University | |
University of Nevada, United States |
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