Kontopodis, M orcid.org/0000-0003-3948-2265 and Kumpulainen, K (2022) Technical Mediation of Children’s Onlife Worlds. In: Kraus, A and Wulf, C, (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Embodiment and Learning. Palgrave Macmillan , Cham, Switzerland , pp. 357-365. ISBN 978-3-030-93000-4
Abstract
This chapter offers an analysis of various technical media in children’s and young people’s everyday lives in a world in which the boundaries between life online and life offline are increasingly blurred in terms of s.c. ‘onlife’. Drawing on Latour’s notion of ‘technical mediation’, the authors use two empirical examples to analyse how contemporary children’s ‘onlives’ are enacted through interrelations between human actors and technical devices. The first example explores various forms of technical mediation between a two-year-old toddler and a music-making App in a home setting. The second example highlights the interrelations between a five-year-old and virtual reality technologies in a Makerspace workshop associated with the FabLab Berlin. The analysis of the two empirical examples leads into a broader discussion about learning and education in contemporary ‘onlife’ worlds.
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Item Type: | Book Section |
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Keywords: | Design; Media; Technical mediation; ‘Onlife’ |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Education (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 24 Jan 2023 11:29 |
Last Modified: | 24 Jan 2023 11:29 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/978-3-030-93001-1_22 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:195614 |