[Commlist] CFP: “Digital Pedagogies Post-Covid-19”, Convergence Journal special issue

CFP: “Digital Pedagogies Post-Covid-19”

Deadline for abstracts: October 1, 2021 / Expected date of publication: 
December 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced academe to rethink the role digital and 
internet technologies play in and with the pedagogical process. For 
better or worse, the internet as institution has disrupted classical and 
traditional notions of learning. As evidenced by the pandemic, we are 
all falling behind in this paradigmatic shift in pedagogical 
understanding and approach. According to some (Ulmer, 2003; Serres, 
2015; Hayles, 2007), the exigency of such a reconsideration arrives as 
utterly overdue. While the otherwise future of online learning has 
already arrived, COVID-19 has demonstrated that we are still yet living 
in the past.

Understanding our era as an apparatus or paradigm (Ulmer 1998)—at least 
with regard to digital technologies in general, the internet in 
particular—we must give attention to emerging patterns of activity, 
belief, logic, and even neurology. While some theorists have warned 
about the danger of digital technologies causing disorientation 
(Stiegler, 2008), the soul at work (Berardi, 2009), violence (Virilio, 
1986), or general detriment (Carr, 2010), we should be reminded of the 
concept of appropriation, as given by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari 
(Deleuze and Guattari, 1983, 1987). Digital technologies are what we 
make of them, and this includes digital pedagogy. Digital pedagogy thus 
again returns us to the pharmakon: a poison, or a cure—or both. As such, 
the aim of education is to remedy the influence of digital media and 
immunize us against it, even if by way of digital education.

This special issue explores the potentials and dangers that digital 
technologies hold for pedagogy and education. In the wake of the 
COVID-19 pandemic and the “Zoomification” of teaching, we aim to 
reassess the key issues facing digital pedagogy today. Our interest lies 
in analyzing the significance of the generational shift in the modes of 
cognitive processing and behavioral patterning engendered by digital 
technologies (the internet, video games, augmented reality, virtual 
reality, etc.). We are especially interested in how digital pedagogy can 
be understood in terms of individual (in)capacities relative to the 
institutional and disciplinary context of education writ large. In 
short, this special issue seeks to “explicate the future [of pedagogy] 
implicated in the new technologies” (Serres, 2015). And new technologies 
seem to emerge with greater speed and velocity than our response and 
appropriation of them—especially with regard to pedagogy.

The editors welcome contributions from a range of interdisciplinary 
perspectives that explore questions regarding digital pedagogy, such as:
·What is the current and future role of digital pedagogy, including but 
not limited to augmented reality, virtual reality, haptic technologies, 
etc.?
·What roles does emotion, affect, and embodiment play in “remote” or 
“virtual” online learning environments?
·How can digital pedagogy be informed by feminist, critical race, 
post-colonial, and Marxist approaches to education?
·How should digital pedagogies attend to what has been termed the 
“post-truth” condition (Fuller, 2020; McIntrye, 2018; Ball, 2017)?
·How can the transition from orality to literacy help us understand the 
transitional state of our educational institutions and contribute to the 
invention of post-literate pedagogies?
·How can we understand post-literacy, multi-modality, and electracy 
(Ulmer, 2003) in the necessary context of emergent digital technologies 
and pedagogies?

Deadline for abstracts: October 1, 2021

Please send a 500-word abstract and a 100-word bio to the guest editors: 
(j.markelj /at/ uva.nl) and (ssndvall /at/ memphis.edu). We would particularly welcome 
contributions from scholars based in the global south or whose research 
relates directly to those contexts.

Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to send full contributions 
by March 2022.

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