dc.description.abstract | This article theorizes the functional relationship between the human components (i.e., scholars) and non-human components (i.e., structural configurations) of academic domains. It is organized around the following question: in what ways have scholars formed and been formed by the structural configurations of their academic domain? The article uses as a case study the academic domain of education and technology to examine this question. Its authorship approach is innovative, with a worldwide collection of academics (99 authors) collaborating to address the proposed question based on their reflections on daily social and academic practices. This collaboration followed a three-round process of contributions via email. Analysis of these scholars' reflective accounts was carried out, and a theoretical proposition was established from this analysis. The proposition is of a mutual (yet not necessarily balanced) power (and therefore political) relationship between the human and non-human constituents of an academic realm, with the two shaping one another. One implication of this proposition is that these non-human elements exist as political actors', just like their human counterparts, having agency' - which they exercise over humans. This turns academic domains into political (functional or dysfunctional) battlefields' wherein both humans and non-humans engage in political activities and actions that form the identity of the academic domain. For more information about the authorship approach, please see Al Lily AEA (2015) A crowd-authoring project on the scholarship of educational technology. Information Development. doi: 10.1177/0266666915622044. | en_US |
dc.contributor.authorID | Erguvan, Inan Deniz/0000-0001-8713-2935; Al-Saggaf, Yeslam/0000-0001-7299-5578; Mohamad Said, Mohd Nihra Haruzuan/0000-0001-9103-9530; Pombo, Lucia/0000-0001-5085-3974; Mazzoni, Elvis/0000-0002-7258-5381; Birzina, Rita/0000-0002-6124-1073; Adedokun-Shittu, Nafisat/0000-0003-1561-7508; Henderson, J. Bryan/0000-0001-6175-0794; Romero, Margarida/0000-0003-3356-8121; Gregory, Sue/0000-0002-0417-8266; Malmi, Lauri/0000-0003-1064-796X; de Freitas Goncalves Moreira, Antonio Augusto/0000-0003-0040-2811; Joy, Mike/0000-0001-9826-5928; Pedro, Luis/0000-0003-1763-8433; Schon, Sandra/0000-0003-0267-5215; GOGUS, AYTAC/0000-0001-8215-3294; Hakkinen, Paivi/0000-0001-6616-9114; Sanga, Camilius/0000-0002-8759-431X; Lucas, Margarida/0000-0002-7438-5287; Reiners, Torsten/0000-0001-6243-4267; Lee, Hwansoo/0000-0002-9897-9522; Coto, Mayela/0000-0002-4558-3671; Jwaifell, Mustafa/0000-0002-7279-7253; Al Lily, Abdulrahman/0000-0002-5116-422X; SEFEROGLU, Suleyman Sadi/0000-0002-5010-484X; Kinley, Khamsum/0000-0003-1308-8219 | en_US |