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Misunderstanding the internet, by James Curran, Natalie Fenton and Des Freedman, London, Routledge
Citation
Morrison, R, Misunderstanding the internet, by James Curran, Natalie Fenton and Des Freedman, London, Routledge, Pedagogies, 11, (3) pp. 270-277. ISSN 1554-480X (2016) [Letter or Note in Journal]
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DOI: doi:10.1080/1554480X.2016.1209759
Abstract
In an era when the only thing developing faster than the internet is the tendency for
technological determinism, Curran, Fenton and Freedman challenge readers to realise that
"society exerts, in general, a greater influence on the internet than the other way around"
(p. 76). In this second edition of Misunderstanding the internet, the authors update their work
of 2012 and call for greater reflection as to what role we should assign this powerful digital
medium. Nowhere is this reflection perhaps more important than in modern classrooms.
Indeed, elsewhere the internet has been credited with revolutionising education, changing
what it means to be knowledgeable and with permanently altering traditional roles of
teacher and student. This book serves to challenge such naive assumptions. If teachers and
students are to truly understand the internet, and therefore benefit from it, the authors
would contend, they must see the technology, albeit spectacular, as one reflecting wider
social agendas.
Item Details
Item Type: | Letter or Note in Journal |
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Keywords: | review, internet, Google technological determinism, internet history, social network, politics, regulation |
Research Division: | Information and Computing Sciences |
Research Group: | Data management and data science |
Research Field: | Information retrieval and web search |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences |
UTAS Author: | Morrison, R (Dr Renee Morrison) |
ID Code: | 131488 |
Year Published: | 2016 |
Deposited By: | Education |
Deposited On: | 2019-03-19 |
Last Modified: | 2019-03-19 |
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