Publications

Publications

Special issue on ‘Social Media and Education’

Neil Selwyn is guest editor of a new special issue of Learning, Media and Technology on the theme of 'Social media and education'. The issue contains nine articles from scholars from the UK, US, Australia, South Africa, Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden. Topics include Facebook groups, teenage Twitter use, connected learning, self-regulated learning and much more.

new article in the European Educational Research Journal

Neil Selwyn has a new article in the European Educational Research Journal (15, 1) on the use of digital data in secondary schools -...

Enhancing Inclusion in Geography Classrooms

Michael Phillips has a chapter in a book series titled International Perspectives on Inclusive Education. His chapter in the 7th volume - Inclusive Pedagogy Across the Curriculum - draws on his work examining teachers' knowledge and the way this can be distributed among groups of people, in this case, between teachers and students.

Exploring school regulation of students’ technology use – rules that are made to be...

We are pleased to announce one of the first articles from our ongoing ARC Discovery project on schools and digital technology. The article, "Exploring...

Teaching and Digital Technologies: Big Issues and Critical Questions

This new book from Cambridge University Press, edited by LNM members Michael Henderson and Geoff Romeo offers a critical perspective on digital technologies in teaching. The book includes 26 chapters from notable authors dealing with a broad range of issues including myths, policy, professional learning, affordances and curriculum.

Students’ use of Wikipedia as an academic resource — Patterns of use and perceptions...

Neil Selwyn has a new article (co-authored with Stephen Gorard from Durham University) in Internet and Higher Education titled 'Students' use of Wikipedia as an academic resource — Patterns of use and perceptions of usefulness'.

Education, technology and the sociological imagination

Neil Selwyn has a new article published in Learning Media & Technology exploring the the relevance of C. Wright Mills’ seminal book ‘The Sociological...

Students’ everyday engagement with digital technology in university: exploring patterns of use and ‘usefulness’

This new paper considers the digital devices and resources that university students engage most frequently with during their studies, what these technologies are being used for, and perceptions of ‘usefulness’ attached to these uses.

Minding our language: why education and technology is full of bullshit … and what might be...

Neil Selwyn has a new article in Learning, Media & Technology challenging the language used to describe education and technology.

Exploring the role of digital data in contemporary schools and schooling

Neil Selwyn, Michael Henderson, and Shu Chao explore the different forms of digitally-based 'data work' engaged by various school stake holders.