Written by: Professor Matthew Allen

…“Ultimately, what we can discern is that the Internet has changed the relationships which humans understand between space and time, place and rhythm. One’s sense of time and sense of space never exist without the other, but digital culture grew up as the way to experience them together differently. As that culture matured, extended, and mapped itself onto all life, rather than just the life spent ‘online’, so it was itself changed to accommodate the way space and time interrelate without computer mediation, creating hybrid formations of presence and absence within and outside of shared time and space.”

Written by: Niels Kerssens

"The question that is hardly, if at all, asked is: what does technology do to students and teachers? This issue is becoming increasingly urgent now that edtech —fueled by data, automated through algorithms, organised by interfaces, and driven by commercial business models— increasingly penetrates the core of the classroom, and the organization and direction of the learning process shifts from teachers to online environments.”

Written by: Shantanu Tilak & Logan Pelfrey

"The idea of a “Screen New Deal” for education seems realistic, but potential for infiltration of big tech corporations into everyday civic life risks offering avenues for the sanitization of our consumption and construction of information…”

Written by: Dr Laura Higson-Bliss

…“By being able to virtually attend conferences from the comfort of our own home, time constraints are heavily reduced. It allows for more academic freedom; we can drop in and out when we need to…”