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Neil Selwyn @neilselwyn.bsky.social · 22d

For those who don't know, I produce a podcast featuring some of the latest thinking in the critical studies of education & tech.

We have just kicked off our third season with an episode on 'Technosolutionism' ... please take a listen & subscribe!

www.buzzsprout.com/1301377

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Season three now starting! Education Technology Society - a critical podcast about digital education.

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Eternauta @jraffaghelli.bsky.social · Sep 10

Join us at the Online Session presenting the results of the Art context and preliminary fieldwork!
eth-tech.eu/from-creativ...
👉 Register here 👇
forms.office.com/e/969z3t5Ks9 (or scan the QR-code)

Eternauta @jraffaghelli.bsky.social · Sep 10

eth-tech.eu/materials-fo...
Here is a collection of cards to explore the ethics of AI and data. The result of a participatory design process, from terms selection to the art contest defining the best images illustrating keywords. Instructions for educators included!

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Eternauta @jraffaghelli.bsky.social · Aug 26

Postdigital, postdigital, postdigital...una palabra que circula por mi cabeza insistentemente. Tanto como para denominar mi último libro con ella ;)
jraffaghelli.com/2025/07/15/p...

Postdigital, postdigital, postdigital

…Palabra que aparece insistentemente en mis últimas producciones! Mientras el debate sobre IA o no IA sigue su curso (y tengo que confesar que me aburre bastante por que el flashback sigue su…

jraffaghelli.com

Eternauta @jraffaghelli.bsky.social · Aug 26

Take a look at UNESCO’s Blue Dot magazine about “AI for Flourishing.” An interesting perspective, with relevant contributions enriching it.

My two cents: Can AI Literacy be a Catalyst for Human Flourishing? Insights from the Global South.
mgiep.unesco.org/the-blue-dot...

The Blue DOT: Issue 18

The UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) is UNESCO’s category 1 Research Institute that focuses on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.7 towards ...

mgiep.unesco.org

Eternauta @jraffaghelli.bsky.social · Jun 30

Proud to announce yet another creative moment with my good friends of ESBRINA-UB!
We will reflect critically (but through a relaxed conversation!) on the implications of platformisation, datafication, and generative AI for educational research and practice.

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Eternauta @jraffaghelli.bsky.social · Jun 21

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Jun 21

Edtech and AI in education are big issues, but it often seems like few know where to turn for critical expertise. Well, here are 200 researchers who gathered for our European Critical Edtech Studies conference this week...

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Eternauta @jraffaghelli.bsky.social · Jun 21

Txs Ben and Janja for the advance and insights on the topic. Maybe an idea would be to advance this topic as a network, exploring and comparing transnationally how these factors are crossing our HEd systems and what is the space for a response (including policy making and funding!).

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Jun 20

Platforms, data, and AI are impacting higher education systems and universities internationally. @jkom.bsky.social and I have a short piece on the political economy of digital transformation in HE just out ihe.bc.edu/pub/499eknm0...

The Political Economy of Datafication and Platformization: Digital Transformation in Higher Education

Platforms, data, and artificial intelligence are impacting higher education systems and universities internationally. Future research is required to examine their concrete effects, and to understand t...

ihe.bc.edu

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Eternauta @jraffaghelli.bsky.social · Jun 19

Morning of a new day at #Ecces25 #conference on #criticaledtech
Values in education-I ask myself- lost in the "technological translation" made by Edtech?

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Eternauta @jraffaghelli.bsky.social · Jun 18

jraffaghelli.com/2025/06/16/a...
A Life full of Ecces...between critique and imagination.
#ecces25

A life full of Ecces…

Between Critique and Imagination There are moments in an academic journey that feel oddly like homecomings. The European Conference on Critical Edtech Studies (ECCES) is one of them. As I prepare t…

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Eternauta @jraffaghelli.bsky.social · Jun 18

There we go #Ecces25, a major event on Critical Edtech Studies!

phzh.ch/en/about-phz...

...and THE place to meet all those people you have reading for years ;)

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Eternauta @jraffaghelli.bsky.social · Jun 11

Fieldnotes of a participatory session to discuss about the way we experience ethical decisions about AI and data as educators eth-tech.eu/fieldnotes-e...
#Eth-Tech #Ethics #Educators #postdigitalpositionality

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Eternauta @jraffaghelli.bsky.social · May 20

✨ WEBINAR
L’intelligenza artificiale entra in aula… ma a quali condizioni?Unisciti a noi per riflettere sull’etica dell’IA e sull’uso dei dati nell’istruzione.

👉 Iscriviti forms.office.com/e/6V6EGFSK6u

#ETHTECH #AI #educazione #webinar #EticaDigitale

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Marian Ferrarelli @ferrarellim.bsky.social · May 10

Thank you very much Petar Jandric for your generous and continuous feedback, and Postdigital Science and Education Journal for the opportunity to share our collective experience and reflections.
@jraffaghelli.bsky.social & Nohemi Lugo

Postdigital Science and Education @pdse.bsky.social · May 6

I just love this one - scholarly, poetic, and emancipatory at the same time... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Slowness as Postdigital Positionality in the Era of Generative AI: A Conversation - Postdigital Science and Education

Our work explores the impact of generative AI (GenAI) on academic life through the lenses of three female scholars. It highlights how the rapid rise of AI technologies has created pressure for faster ...

link.springer.com

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Eternauta @jraffaghelli.bsky.social · May 9

Slowness as Postdigital Positionality in the Era of Generative AI: A Conversation
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A methodological exploration (autoethnography), a conversation lasting long, slowness as a response to life in the "blink of AI".

Thanks @ferrarellim.bsky.social and Nohemí Lugo!

Slowness as Postdigital Positionality in the Era of Generative AI: A Conversation - Postdigital Science and Education

Our work explores the impact of generative AI (GenAI) on academic life through the lenses of three female scholars. It highlights how the rapid rise of AI technologies has created pressure for faster ...

link.springer.com

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DOAJ @doaj.bsky.social · Mar 31

We're delighted to welcome @ojcollective.bsky.social to Bluesky. Take a look at their website www.openjournalscollective.org, which soft launches today.

There is also a blog post blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

#scholcomm #AcademicChatter #libraries #openaccess

Open Journals Collective

www.openjournalscollective.org

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Eternauta @jraffaghelli.bsky.social · Apr 1

A Journey Begins: "Anchoring Ethical Technology (AI and Data) Usage in Educational Practice" - eth-tech.eu/about/

From Germany, Romania, Spain, and Italy, exploring how future educators engage with AI and data —beyond "techno-myths" toward critical and constructive reflection.

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Cristóbal Suárez-Guerrero @cristobalsuarez.bsky.social · Mar 14

✍️ M.Ranieri, C.Cobo, P.Rivera @manuelarea.bsky.social
@jraffaghelli.bsky.social @jordi-a.bsky.social @cristobalsuarez.bsky.social I.Dussel @juliussinmundo.bsky.social @benpatrickwill.bsky.social @fran-gp.bsky.social @carolkuhn.bsky.social @marinagarces.bsky.social G.Herrera, J.Jacovkis y A.Tarabini

Cristóbal Suárez-Guerrero @cristobalsuarez.bsky.social · Mar 14

Mitos #EdTech. Desmontando el solucionismo tecnológico en educación. Editorial UOC
www.editorialuoc.com/mitos-edtech...
Reseña: educacion-virtualidad.blogspot.com/2025/02/mito...

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Eternauta @jraffaghelli.bsky.social · Mar 14

Un recorrido alrededor de la "sospecha" tecnológica. De esa intuición de no repuesta a nuestras identidades y nuestras prácticas.
Nueve mitos Edtech y una reflexión metodologica: desde una conversación iniciada en el 2020.

Cristóbal Suárez-Guerrero @cristobalsuarez.bsky.social · Mar 14

✍️ M.Ranieri, C.Cobo, P.Rivera @manuelarea.bsky.social
@jraffaghelli.bsky.social @jordi-a.bsky.social @cristobalsuarez.bsky.social I.Dussel @juliussinmundo.bsky.social @benpatrickwill.bsky.social @fran-gp.bsky.social @carolkuhn.bsky.social @marinagarces.bsky.social G.Herrera, J.Jacovkis y A.Tarabini

Cristóbal Suárez-Guerrero @cristobalsuarez.bsky.social · Mar 14

Mitos #EdTech. Desmontando el solucionismo tecnológico en educación. Editorial UOC
www.editorialuoc.com/mitos-edtech...
Reseña: educacion-virtualidad.blogspot.com/2025/02/mito...

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Eternauta @jraffaghelli.bsky.social · Feb 25

Finally published :)
Go through this article to discover that this is not another celebration of quantification in educational research. Instead, we propose our critical interpretation about the way we look at the progress of learning analytics research.
doi.org/10.18608/jla...

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Eternauta @jraffaghelli.bsky.social · Feb 24

Great piece from Civics of Technology about the "move fast and break things" techno ethos. No matter what it is to be broken (our souls, our planet, our future).
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/in-defe...

Eternauta @jraffaghelli.bsky.social · Feb 22

In the right wing idiocracy Europe has been moving to, we will be just happy to follow Trumpist aspirations.
This is not the wild western, this is just the Walking Dead Western.

Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Feb 21

Last week, JD Vance gave Europe an ultimatum: it can align with the Trump administration, or face its wrath.

To comply, Europe needs to embrace the extreme right, repeal tech rules the US “will not accept,” and allow Silicon Valley to dominate its market. It should tell the US to take a hike.

JD Vance champions tech imperialism in Europe

The European Union needs to defend its sovereignty and end its dependence on US tech monopolies

www.disconnect.blog

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Dr Maren Deepwell @marendeepwell.bsky.social · Feb 21

Always a joy… @edtechie rocking his keynote complete with cat video… 🐱

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Eternauta @jraffaghelli.bsky.social · Feb 21

How can we resist?
Huge question.
Her focus on belongings.

Cultural practices & participatory digital affordances for support belonging.
Belonging in a complex relationship with mapping (the material and the virtual)
Focusing on relationships and reciprocity.

Eternauta @jraffaghelli.bsky.social · Feb 21

Rethinking the AI aftermath by @bonstewart.bsky.social
Be aware that maximisation and optim...and other *isations is not OUR story but is the pure narrative of technocratic power.

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