TY - JOUR

T1 - Social Media and the Hybridization of Education

AU - Tække, Jesper

AU - Paulsen, Michael

N1 - Thanks to Cavi for helping with storing tweets

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - This article presents a discussion and a new theoretical model about how we adequately can describe education on the level of the classroom after the introduction of digital media and wireless networks. As its point of departure the article describes the contemporary situation within !he classroom referring to rescan::h in Danish upper secondary schools. Then it discusses Ihis situation in relation to medium theory and the education situation before digital media and wireless networks. After that the article provides a systems theorctical explanation following Niklas Luhmann and finds the theory's explanatory power limited in relation to the new situation. Ncxt thc article introduces actor networktheory following Bruno Latour to overcomc the limits of Luhmann's systems theory and reconstruct it fuuning a hybrid theory both sensitive to the new situation and able to observe it and analyze it adequately as historically linked to the old society. Exemplifying this hybrid theoretical model thearticle presents the action research project, Socio Media Education. showing pedagogicalconsequences and possibilities of the new media environment in relation to education. Finally weprovide a conclusion on the contemporary situation of social m~ia and the hybridization ofeducation.

AB - This article presents a discussion and a new theoretical model about how we adequately can describe education on the level of the classroom after the introduction of digital media and wireless networks. As its point of departure the article describes the contemporary situation within !he classroom referring to rescan::h in Danish upper secondary schools. Then it discusses Ihis situation in relation to medium theory and the education situation before digital media and wireless networks. After that the article provides a systems theorctical explanation following Niklas Luhmann and finds the theory's explanatory power limited in relation to the new situation. Ncxt thc article introduces actor networktheory following Bruno Latour to overcomc the limits of Luhmann's systems theory and reconstruct it fuuning a hybrid theory both sensitive to the new situation and able to observe it and analyze it adequately as historically linked to the old society. Exemplifying this hybrid theoretical model thearticle presents the action research project, Socio Media Education. showing pedagogicalconsequences and possibilities of the new media environment in relation to education. Finally weprovide a conclusion on the contemporary situation of social m~ia and the hybridization ofeducation.

KW - Education;

KW - Teaching;

KW - Systems Theory

KW - Media Theory

KW - ANT

KW - Action Research

KW - Society

M3 - Journal article

VL - 2o

SP - 141

EP - 158

JO - Cybernetics & Human Knowing - A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics, Autopoiesis and Cyber-Semiotics

JF - Cybernetics & Human Knowing - A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics, Autopoiesis and Cyber-Semiotics

SN - 0907-0877

IS - 1-2

ER -