Not in our Journals – Digital Media Technologies and the LGBTQI Community

Exploring Dimensions of the Past: A Historiographical Analysis of Instructional Design and Technology Historical Works

“…New perspectives often promote new methodological approaches, as is evident in more recent historical research explorations in IDT. Scholars including Bradshaw (2018), Butler (1995Butler ( , 2000bButler ( , 2008, Butler and De Vaney (1994), Butler and Lockee (2016), Donaldson (2016), Lockee and Song (2016), Subramony (2018), and Young (2001Young ( , 2009 characterize postmodernism in their historical analyses. Butler (1995Butler ( , 2000bButler ( , 2008 and Butler and De Vaney's (1994) research of IDT history use discourse analysis to focus on extracting meaning from everyday action or language without assuming that all humans experience history the same way.…”

“…Butler (1995Butler ( , 2000bButler ( , 2008 and Butler and De Vaney's (1994) research of IDT history use discourse analysis to focus on extracting meaning from everyday action or language without assuming that all humans experience history the same way. Butler (1995Butler ( , 2000bButler ( , 2008 and Butler and De Vaney's (1994) histories focus more on historical experience and less on explanations for historical occurrences while Donaldson (2016), Subramony (2018), Bradshaw (2018), andYoung (2001) seek to contextualize historical experiences in IDT and return agency or voice to previously excluded individuals and groups. Butler (2008), Butler and Lockee (2016), and Lockee and Song (2016) challenge the precedence of written text in history by recording interviews with AECT Legends and Legacies as living records for posterity and promoting oral history as a valuable research approach.…”

“…While these women are contradictions to temporal norms, they still functioned within dominant cultural spheres of their time. Power, even historically, is multifaceted and distributed unevenly, and the intersectionality of social variables such as race, class, gender, and sexuality need to be accounted for in historical analysis (Subramony, 2018). Subramony's (2018) sociological lens on the field of IDT highlights intersectionality at play in daily practice and research agendas.…”

“…Power, even historically, is multifaceted and distributed unevenly, and the intersectionality of social variables such as race, class, gender, and sexuality need to be accounted for in historical analysis (Subramony, 2018). Subramony's (2018) sociological lens on the field of IDT highlights intersectionality at play in daily practice and research agendas. Subramony urges the IDT community to explore current participation of LGBQTIA2S+ identities in learning environments, workplace performance settings, and digitally mediated spaces.…”

Open educational resources: expanding equity or reflecting and furthering inequities?

“…we may begin to examine whether OER offer broad, diverse, and accurate representations. One has to pause and question the value of OER that are associated with higher outcomes if, for instance, they marginalize or ignore people who identify as LGBTQ2+ (see Subramony 2018 ). By asking Who is cited in OER, and which forms of knowledge are reproduced in OER?…”