Let’s Figure It Out: Participatory Methods for Reflecting on Educational Media in a Postdigital World

Abstract

The “postdigital condition” is characterized by an entanglement of digital and analogue media technologies and practices, with two of today’s primary societal challenges being a loss of privacy in data-driven media practices and the implicit power relations within media constellations that determine who is able to participate how. Education plays a crucial role in this context, being both the sphere in which reflection on these challenges can take place and also being itself based on digital media constellations that must in turn be reflected upon. This chapter considers two workshop concepts that facilitate such reflection: one based on Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA), based on risk management and the tradition of technology impact assessments, and an original approach for reflection on media constellations that has its roots in media and practice theory.