SPACES OF LEARNING: Technology is a key dimension in everyday life, including learning. Technology is reflected in politics, architecture, literature, education, entertainment and more. It is a product of societal patterns, cultural mores, values and models of society.
Technology also shapes society. Yet, only in the past few decades has technology come into broad focus as an area of cross-disciplinary research attention. Increasingly, we speak of digital media and “digitalization” as a core element of culture, political life, knowledge geographies, information flows. The nature of those societies that we seek to model and build, are dependent on material conditions of technology – ever-changing, faster and faster.
So, while the study of technology is catching up and catching on in the social sciences and humanities, the challenge is still there to connect with technologists and explore new means, uses and critiques.