51. An Atlas of Academic Practice in Digital Times
- Author
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Maarten Simons and Mathias Decuypere
- Subjects
Digitization ,History ,Medical education ,Universities ,business.industry ,Concept map ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Research methodology ,Academic practice ,Academics ,Educational research ,Sociomaterial studies ,Topology ,Education ,Philosophy ,Pedagogy ,Institution ,Electronic publishing ,Media adaptation ,business ,Psychology ,media_common - Abstract
In current literature on the university it is generally accepted that processes of digitization play an important role regarding both the daily functioning of the university as an institution and the academics that give shape to it. This article contributes to our understanding of the role that digitization plays in contemporary academic practices and does this by adopting a relational theoretical framework informed by sociomaterial studies. Furthermore, the article introduces a specific interview technique as methodological approach and makes use of topological visualizations in order to qualitatively analyze the composition of academic work in digital times. As such, combining textual and visual analysis, the article should be conceived as an explorative atlas. The atlas gives an account of how daily academic practices are relationally composed, which sorts of spatiotemporal constellations are enacted in these practices and how the digital is enacted in these practices. Based on three profiles of academic practices, this atlas concludes by exploring whether contemporary academic practices are characterized by a typical mode of existence, and gives some pointers as to how this mode of existence of the university is typically enacted nowadays. ispartof: Open Review of Educational Research vol:1 issue:1 pages:116-143 status: published
- Published
- 2014