Permanent Connectivity: From Modes of Restrictions to Strategies of Resistance

Steinmaurer, Thomas; Atteneder, Helena

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“…For example, these include engaging generatively with ideas of media abstention and resistance, digital disconnection and restrained modes of digital engagement. Writers exploring these issues outside of education highlight that these need to be seen as collectiverather than individualundertakings and can act as a powerful basis for collective action and change (Kaun and Treré, 2020;Steinmaurer and Atteneder, 2019;Syvertsen, 2017). Such a shift in mindset might not be as unrealistic as some readers might presume.…”

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Ed-Tech Within Limits: Anticipating educational technology in times of environmental crisis

Selwyn

2021

E-Learning and Digital Media

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Despite climate heating and rising ecological instability, environmental issues feature rarely in discussions of educational technology. Most commentators presume the continued unfettered use of digital education resources bolstered by occasional claims that emerging technologies might support the ‘greening’ of school and university provision. In contrast to such business-as-usual complacency, this article anticipates ongoing environmental degradation of the planet as radically upending the continued expansion of digital technologies in education. On the one hand, depletion of natural resources and energy curtailments might put paid to established ‘abundant’ forms of digital technology use. On the other hand, more frequent climate-related disasters might necessitate emergency forms of education for displaced and unsettled populations. As such, the article argues for a new paradigm of educational technology that is both wholly sustainable and targeted towards displaced and disadvantaged populations. The article considers a number of ways that such an ‘Ed-Tech Within Limits’ might be pursued – outlining fundamental shifts in thinking necessary to reorient educational technology along environmentally concerned lines.

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Ed-Tech Within Limits: Anticipating educational technology in times of environmental crisis

Selwyn

2021

E-Learning and Digital Media

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“…Due to the limitations of our study, we suggest further, more generalizable, investigation of the ield of (un)wittingly-shared geolocation data in the framework of economics (geomedia business models). Any recommendation for further action to advance privacy-protection mechanisms should be based on three pillars (Debatin 2011): legal regulation, ethical self-regulation (Steinmaurer & Atteneder, 2018), and privacy-enhancing technology.…”

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Geomedia and privacy in context. Paradoxical behavior or the unwitting sharing of geodata with digital platforms?

Atteneder

Collini-Nocker

2019

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<p>The increasing pervasiveness of media in society implies the ubiquitous processes of geodata-capture and real-time feedback. The concept of Geomedia considers these developments and raises the questions of geoprivacy and corporate surveillance. The aim of this study was to investigate what kinds of geolocation data are shared wittingly or unwittingly, and in what contexts. Beyond that, we ask how much individuals know about the data-sharing processes and the underlying commercial logic, and how they act upon this knowledge (whether paradoxically or not). Our study was theoretically framed by contextual privacy (Nissenbaum 2011), because we assumed that a violation of privacy is perceived differently according to the context. The quasi-experimental design (using a WiFi-capture device) combined with a questionnaire revealed the participants’ attitudes to, and awareness of, data sharing, and their understanding of geoprivacy and geomedia use. The main results show that people are aware of the underlying commercial logic, have privacy concerns and, strongly depending on contextual factors, their knowledge and capabilities, act upon this awareness. Finally, we show that smartphones covertly share a huge amount of meta and traffic data.</p>

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“…Regarding the individualized use of geomedia, new forms of (location-based) identity performance (Schwartz & Halegoua, 2014) and identity-management arise through powerstructures of self-surveillance, competition with others, and forms of 'watching one another' (lateral surveillance; (Andrejevic, 2005)), 'controlling one another' (interveillance; (Jansson, 2015)) or 'looking at one's own content through other people's eyes' (social surveillance; (Marwick, 2012)). The challenge of locating oneself (physically, structurally and in terms of a social system) requires different modes and strategies of coping with digital network technologies -from unthinking, full adoption of power structures to modes of rejection and resistance (Steinmaurer & Atteneder, 2018).…”

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Geomedia: Manifestations of Power as Mediatized Communication Practices – A Foucauldian Approach

Atteneder¹

2018

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The pervasive integration of geomedia in urban societies changes the perception and appropriation of space by influencing everyday modes of connectivity while also changing manifestations of power. Geomedia and the resulting datasets thus enable new types of platform capitalism and surveillance, but also possible empowerment. At the current level of 'permanent spatial connectivity', power becomes relational and liquid, and manifests within structures ((machine learning) algorithms and codes) rather than people. (Geo)mediatization theory addresses underlying power relations critically; in this paper, it is complemented by Foucault's theories of power. His conception of power as 'fluid', diffused and disembodied is adopted as a fruitful concept in the analysis of geomedia and spatial practices within digital networks.

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Permanent Connectivity: From Modes of Restrictions to Strategies of Resistance

Cited by 4 publications

References 35 publications

Ed-Tech Within Limits: Anticipating educational technology in times of environmental crisis

Ed-Tech Within Limits: Anticipating educational technology in times of environmental crisis

Geomedia and privacy in context. Paradoxical behavior or the unwitting sharing of geodata with digital platforms?

Geomedia: Manifestations of Power as Mediatized Communication Practices – A Foucauldian Approach

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