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Higher education students' experiences of digital learning and (dis)empowerment (2018)
Journal Article
Costa, C., Murphy, M., Pereira, A. L., & Taylor, Y. (2018). Higher education students' experiences of digital learning and (dis)empowerment. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 34(3), 140-152. https://doi.org/10.14742/ajet.3979

This paper focuses on learning practices in higher education in relation to a digital participatory culture. Using key principles of critical education, the research set out to explore higher education students' sense of agency online - or lack of it... Read More about Higher education students' experiences of digital learning and (dis)empowerment.

Doing Research In and On the Digital: Research Methods across Fields of Inquiry (2018)
Book
Costa, C., & Condie, J. (2018). C. Costa, & J. Condie (Eds.), Doing Research In and On the Digital: Research Methods across Fields of Inquiry. Milton Park, Abingdon: Routledge

As a social space, the web provides researchers both with a tool and an environment to explore the intricacies of everyday life. As a site of mediated interactions and interrelationships, the ‘digital’ has evolved from being a space of information to... Read More about Doing Research In and On the Digital: Research Methods across Fields of Inquiry.

Digital scholarship, higher education and the future of the public intellectual (2018)
Journal Article
Murphy, M., & Costa, C. (2019). Digital scholarship, higher education and the future of the public intellectual. Futures, 111, 205-212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2018.04.011

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Intellectual life in countries such as the UK and elsewhere is currently framed by a seeming contradiction. On the one hand, notions of engagement and knowledge transfer have taken centre stage in higher education institutions in... Read More about Digital scholarship, higher education and the future of the public intellectual.

Capturing habitus: Theory, method and reflexivity (2018)
Journal Article
Costa, C., Burke, C., & Murphy, M. (2019). Capturing habitus: Theory, method and reflexivity. International Journal of Research and Method in Education, 42(1), 19-32. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727X.2017.1420771

Bourdieu’s career long endeavour was to devise both theoretical and methodological tools that could apprehend and explain the social world and its mechanisms of cultural (re)production and related forms of domination. Amongst the several key concepts... Read More about Capturing habitus: Theory, method and reflexivity.

Reconsidering the technologies of intellectual inquiry in curriculum design (2017)
Journal Article
Costa, C., & Harris, L. (2017). Reconsidering the technologies of intellectual inquiry in curriculum design. Curriculum Journal, 28(4), 559-577. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585176.2017.1308260

© 2017 British Educational Research Association. This paper reports on the design and delivery of classroom pedagogies and students’ engagement with it in two different UK universities. Under the banner of curriculum design and Bourdieu's curriculum... Read More about Reconsidering the technologies of intellectual inquiry in curriculum design.

Cluster analysis characterization of research trends connecting social media to learning in the United Kingdom (2017)
Journal Article
Pereira, A. L., Costa, C., & Lunardi, J. T. (2017). Cluster analysis characterization of research trends connecting social media to learning in the United Kingdom

In this work we present a characterization of and discuss the research trends connecting social media to learning in the United Kingdom in the last six years. The data set for this research comprises articles published in educational journals indexed... Read More about Cluster analysis characterization of research trends connecting social media to learning in the United Kingdom.

Digital literacies for employability- fostering forms of capital online (2017)
Journal Article
Costa, C., & Gilliland, G. (2017). Digital literacies for employability- fostering forms of capital online. Revista da UIIPS, 5(2), 186-197

The web has revolutionised the world of knowledge and created new literacies practices to operate in a mediated world. In doing so, it has reinvented the workplace, the skills, attitudes and values individual attribute to contemporary forms of commun... Read More about Digital literacies for employability- fostering forms of capital online.

Double gamers: Academics between fields (2016)
Journal Article
Costa, C. (2016). Double gamers: Academics between fields. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 37(7), 993-1013. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2014.982861

© 2014 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The field of academia is frequently associated with traditional norms that aim to regulate scholarly activity, especially research. The social web, as another field, is often viewed as c... Read More about Double gamers: Academics between fields.

Digital scholarship: Recognizing new practices in academia (2016)
Book Chapter
Costa, C., & Murphy, M. (2016). Digital scholarship: Recognizing new practices in academia. In M. Peters (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_259-1

More often than not, novelty is met with suspicion. The status of “newness” is very rarely given a particularly high value not only because of the unfamiliarity it carries but also because of the threat it poses to established norms. Digital technolo... Read More about Digital scholarship: Recognizing new practices in academia.

Bourdieu and education research (2015)
Book Chapter
Murphy, M., & Costa, C. (2015). Bourdieu and education research. In M. Murphy, & C. Costa (Eds.), Theory as Method in Research: On Bourdieu, Social Theory and Education (1-13). Routledge

Bourdieu and education research

Academics online: Fighting for a new habitus (2015)
Book Chapter
Costa, C. (2015). Academics online: Fighting for a new habitus. In C. Costa, & M. Murphy (Eds.), Bourdieu, Habitus and Social Research: The Art of Application (151-166). Palgrave Macmillan

The pervasiveness of digital technologies in society is transforming day-to-day routines by questioning the norms of the workplace with new forms of communication and dissemination of information. Academia, as a space of social (inter)actions, is sta... Read More about Academics online: Fighting for a new habitus.

Outcasts on the inside: academics reinventing themselves online (2015)
Journal Article
Costa, C. (2015). Outcasts on the inside: academics reinventing themselves online. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 34(2), 194-210. https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2014.985752

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. Recent developments in digital scholarship point out that academic practices supported by technologies may not only be transformed through the obvious process of digitization, but also renovated through distributed knowledg... Read More about Outcasts on the inside: academics reinventing themselves online.

EU digital media policies and education: The challenge of a digital agenda for Europe
Book Chapter
Costa, C., & Murphy, M. EU digital media policies and education: The challenge of a digital agenda for Europe. In S. St John, & M. Murphy (Eds.), Education and Public Policy in the European Union: Crossing boundaries. Palgrave Macmillan

Media and communication practices are of core importance to the intent of a European knowledge society that thrives to be competitive and aims to be inclusive. Media and communication policies at the European level date back from the 1970s with the i... Read More about EU digital media policies and education: The challenge of a digital agenda for Europe.