Higher education students' experiences of digital learning and (dis)empowerment (2018)
Journal Article

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)
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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

© 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.

Digital scholars: A feeling for the academic game (2018)
Book Chapter

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.

Capturing habitus: Theory, method and reflexivity (2018)
Journal Article

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)
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© 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.

Double gamers: Academics between fields (2016)
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© 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.

Exploring the learning potential of acoustic design in 3D virtual environments (2015)
Journal Article

This paper discusses the current research and understanding of the effects of audio environments on learning, with a particular focus on the affordances of the effects in computer-generated, 3D virtual environments and virtual worlds. Both sound and... Read More about Exploring the learning potential of acoustic design in 3D virtual environments.

Outcasts on the inside: academics reinventing themselves online (2015)
Journal Article

© 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.

Online people tagging: Social (mobile) network(ing) services and work-based learning (2012)
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Social and mobile technologies offer users unprecedented opportunities for communicating, interacting, sharing, meaning-making, content and context generation. And, these affordances are in constant flux driven by a powerful interplay between technol... Read More about Online people tagging: Social (mobile) network(ing) services and work-based learning.

Using social networked sites and mobile technology for bridging social capital (2012)
Book Chapter

Ubiquitous mobility with mobile phones: A cultural ecology for mobile learning (2011)
Journal Article

This article argues that mobile phones should be viewed as new cultural resources that operate within an individualized, mobile and convergent mass communication; such a recognition facilitates the options for a cultural ecology. A particular challen... Read More about Ubiquitous mobility with mobile phones: A cultural ecology for mobile learning.

Mobile Phones as Mediating Tools Within Augmented Contexts for Development (2010)
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Mobile learning: Structures, agency, practices (2010)
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Bridging the gap? Mobile phones at the interface between informal and formal learning (2008)
Journal Article

This paper reports on a study of the use of high-end mobile phones for off-site and on-campus mobile learning. The aim of the study was to investigate how mobile devices are being integrated by learners in their informal-private ‘space’ and what use... Read More about Bridging the gap? Mobile phones at the interface between informal and formal learning.

EU digital media policies and education: The challenge of a digital agenda for Europe
Book Chapter

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.