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Digital scholars: A feeling for the academic game (2018)
Book Chapter
Costa, C. (2018). Digital scholars: A feeling for the academic game. In Y. Taylor, & K. Lahad (Eds.), Feeling Academic in the Neoliberal University: Feminist Flights, Fights and Failures (345-368). Palgrave

This chapter focuses on the felt perceptions of academics engaged in digital scholarship activities, as forms of academic contributions. In so doing, it explores if and how such practices are redefining both the meaning of academia and what it feels... Read More about Digital scholars: A feeling for the academic game.

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

Method as theory: (re)exploring the intellectual context of education research (2015)
Book Chapter
Costa, C., & Murphy, M. (2015). Method as theory: (re)exploring the intellectual context of education research. In C. Costa, & M. Murphy (Eds.), Theory as Method in Research - On Bourdieu, Social Theory and Education (191-200). Oxon: Routledge

While education researchers have drawn on the work of a wide diversity of theorists over the years, much contemporary theory building in these areas has revolved around the work of Pierre Bourdieu. Theory as Method in Research develops the capacity o... Read More about Method as theory: (re)exploring the intellectual context of education research.

Digital scholarship: Exploring doxic approaches to educational change (2015)
Book Chapter
Costa, C., & Murphy, M. (2015). Digital scholarship: Exploring doxic approaches to educational change. In M. Murphy, & C. Costa (Eds.), Theory as Method in Research - On Bourdieu, Social Theory and Education (49-62). Routledge

Doxa, digital scholarship and the academy (Cristina Costa and Mark Murphy)

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.

Bourdieu and the application of habitus across the social sciences (2015)
Book Chapter
Costa, C., & Murphy, M. (2015). Bourdieu and the application of habitus across the social sciences. In M. Murphy, & C. Costa (Eds.), Bourdieu, Habitus and Social Research: The Art of Application (3-20). Palgrave Macmillan

This collection brings together for the first time a set of researchers whose research methodologies centre on Bourdieu's concept of habitus. Full of insight and innovation, the book is an essential read for anyone wanting to know more about approach... Read More about Bourdieu and the application of habitus across the social sciences.

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.