J Sefton-Green
Biographic Data
| ID | 14512 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Sefton-Green |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Sefton-Green |
| SIGNATURE | SEFTON-GREEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9318-4934 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Is My Child Normal? Sciency Discourses in Online Parenting Advice Cultures
For some decades, scholars have documented the expansion of discourses of ‘intensive’ parenting in Anglo-American culture and the increasing mediation of family life. In this context, this article argues that online culture is increasingly responsible for an ever-present instructional address, in which parents are continually targeted with advice from many voices, automated, known and unknown, all claiming various kinds of expertise about how to …
Researching the Edtech Industry for Children: Methodological Reflections on a Design-Based Approach
Digital platforms and services are making inroads into the everyday lives of even very young children. As with many other domains of life, children’s learning and education are increasingly digitised through ‘educational technology’ software, or more commonly EdTech. The rise of the EdTech industry provokes new questions about children’s education in the digital age. Methodologically, studying the EdTech industry for children largely falls in the…
What Australian research offers the study of digital childhoods: A scoping review of digital media use by families with young children
This article examines current Australian research about digital media use by families with young children. Informed by a scoping review of 55 publications (2017–2022), we use select findings as departure points to consider how Australian media and communications research can meaningfully contribute to both local and international knowledge. We find that current Australian research largely mirrors international trends, particularly in its lack of …
Edutainment 2.0 or eduwashing? The production of educational legitimacy for children’s apps
On the Apple App Store or Google Play Store, parents can choose from a dazzling number of ‘edutainment apps’ that claim to teach children essential skills whilst also being ‘fun’ and ‘engaging’. In this article, we introduce the phenomenon of ‘eduwashing’ by showing the variety of semantic strategies used by app developers to ‘produce’ educational legitimacy. Taking the popular app Lingokids as a case study, we identify the following three dimens…
The desire to learn: The alienation and reimagining of pedagogy on YouTube, Twitch and TikTok
Contains fulltext : 326244.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Learning to Live with Datafication: Educational Case Studies and Initiatives from Across the World
Is there a ‘theory of learning’ for Cultural Studies and is it (still) relevant in an era of surveillance capitalism
This article questions how cultural studies has been constructed as an educational project to examine if it might offer principles for learning about living in digital culture now. It first considers how the subject of Cultural Studies developed in relationship to education and then revisits empirical studies of cultural studies in schools. The essay engages with perspectives on evaluating the effects of these approaches and situates debates abou…
Embodied technology use: Unaccompanied refugee youth and the migrant platformed body
For unaccompanied refugee youth, technology occupies a central role in their lives. It helps them when crossing countries, finding a shelter, and accessing education, or even in negotiating family relations online (e.g., Çelikaksoy & Wadensjö, 2017; Marlowe & Bruns, 2020; Morrice et al., 2020). Research with young refugees shows that social media and smart devices have become essential means to resolve many challenges (Kutscher & Kreß, 2018). The…
Towards platform pedagogies: Why Thinking About Digital Platforms as Pedagogic Devices Might Be Useful
In a context where current forms of governance and polity across many societies are engaging with ‘platformisation’, the paper argues that the utility and consequences of using a theory of pedagogy can provide a different way to explain how digital technology might ‘determine’ subjectivity. This paper describes the key process of how platforms work when considered as a ‘pedagogic device’: paying particular attention to how users ‘learn’ or are ‘s…
Digital Rights, Digital Citizenship and Digital Literacy: What’s the Difference?
Using digital media is complicated. Invasions of privacy, increasing dataveillance, digital-by-default commercial and civic transactions and the erosion of the democratic sphere are just some of the complex issues in modern societies. Existential questions associated with digital life challenge the individual to come to terms with who they are, as well as their social interactions and realities. In this article, we identify three contemporary nor…
Critical literacy, schooling, and social justice: A review of Allan Luke’s collected essays (2018)
In the wider context of ways that Literacy works to enforce control by elites, the maintenance of high culture, racial stratification, national identity and social injustice through education, this review essay reflects on Allan Luke’s collected essays republished by Routledge in 2018 as Critical literacy, schooling, and social justice: The selected works of Allan Luke. The article engages with some of the book’s key concerns, investigating: scho…
The death of the educative subject? The limits of criticality under datafication
Amidst ongoing technological and social change, this article explores the implications for critical education that result from a data-driven model of digital governance. The article argues that traditional notions of critique which rely upon the deconstruction and analysis of texts are increasingly redundant in the age of datafication, where the production of information is automated and hidden. The article explains the concept of the ‘educative …
Is the re-contextualization of digital writing inevitable, escapable or desirable
Digital writing is constantly in tension with the way that school recontextualizes forms of resistance and vernacular knowledge in order to sustain control and power relations across society. Yet the social practices of digital writing are diverse, wide-ranging and constantly challenge forms of authorized knowledge across a variety of different social domains. This article considers definitions of digital writing (what is counted as such, by whom…
Reconceptualizing the teaching and learning of digital writing
Situated in a broad sociocultural framework, the new literacies movement of the 1980s tried to open up narrow and restricted definitions of literacy as simply competence in reading and writing prin
Towards a cultural history of digital autodidacticism: Changing Cultural Narratives of Education
The essay argues that the various new imaginaries of the connected, creative, autonomous, coding, motivated and making digital learner have their roots in diverse and older visions of a different kind education system (especially the craft learner working in communities of practice) than that promulgated by the human-capital inspired neoliberal governmentalised States in the world today. Tracing the histories of the older imaginaries in a cultura…
The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age
An intimate look at how children network, identify, learn and grow in a connected world.Read Online at connectedyouth.nyupress.orgDo today’s youth have more opportunities than their parents? As they build their own social and digital networks, does that offer new routes to learning and friendship? How do they navigate the meaning of education in a digitally connected but fiercely competitive, highly individualized world?Based upon fieldwork at an…
Cultural Studies and Education: Reflecting on differences, impacts, effects and change
Based on experiences and research at virtually all levels of the English education system I will argue that we can observe the ‘impact’ of Cultural Studies on the forms and practices of Education as a system and as institutions as well as at the more micro-levels of individual learning and even theories of learning itself. These ‘impacts’ will be analysed along three dimensions: the institutionalization and/or incorporation of school subjects (li…
Cultural Studies Goes To School
In the context of the growing diversity of contemporary societies and the central importance of the electronic media, the place of popular culture in the school curriculum has become an increasingly controversial political issue. Based on in-depth research in an ethnically mixed, working-class secondary school, Cultural Studies Goes to School is concerned with the relationships between young people's involvement in popular culture outside school …
Gotta catch 'em all: Structure, agency and pedagogy in children's media culture
This article uses an analytical case study of the Pokémon phenomenon as a means of addressing broader theoretical issues concerned with the relationships between structure and agency in children's media culture. It analyses the political economy of Pokémon, and its attempts to appeal to different sub-sections of the children's market; the textual appeals of the different Pokémon artefacts, and the role of `knowledge'; and debates about the positi…
Vivre et apprendre dans un salon de discussion
En octobre 2002, le Sénégal annonçait son intention de réformer son enseignement officiel en y introduisant des cours de religion et des cours dans les langues locales et en incluant les écoles coraniques dans le système formel. Ces mesures visent à faire augmenter le taux de scolarisation du pays, conformément aux recommandations des bailleurs de fonds. C’est une logique libérale contemporaine, celle du respect des préférences des usagers, qui c…
Neither ‘Reading’ nor ‘Writing’: The History of Practical Work in Media Education
(1995). Neither ‘Reading’ nor ‘Writing’: The History of Practical Work in Media Education. Changing English: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 77-96
Towards platform pedagogies: Why Thinking About Digital Platforms as Pedagogic Devices Might Be Useful
In a context where current forms of governance and polity across many societies are engaging with ‘platformisation’, the paper argues that the utility and consequences of using a theory of pedagogy can provide a different way to explain how digital technology might ‘determine’ subjectivity. This paper describes the key process of how platforms work when considered as a ‘pedagogic device’: paying particular attention to how users ‘learn’ or are ‘s…
The death of the educative subject? The limits of criticality under datafication
Amidst ongoing technological and social change, this article explores the implications for critical education that result from a data-driven model of digital governance. The article argues that traditional notions of critique which rely upon the deconstruction and analysis of texts are increasingly redundant in the age of datafication, where the production of information is automated and hidden. The article explains the concept of the ‘educative …
The desire to learn: The alienation and reimagining of pedagogy on YouTube, Twitch and TikTok
Contains fulltext : 326244.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Is the re-contextualization of digital writing inevitable, escapable or desirable
Digital writing is constantly in tension with the way that school recontextualizes forms of resistance and vernacular knowledge in order to sustain control and power relations across society. Yet the social practices of digital writing are diverse, wide-ranging and constantly challenge forms of authorized knowledge across a variety of different social domains. This article considers definitions of digital writing (what is counted as such, by whom…
Reconceptualizing the teaching and learning of digital writing
Situated in a broad sociocultural framework, the new literacies movement of the 1980s tried to open up narrow and restricted definitions of literacy as simply competence in reading and writing prin
Vivre et apprendre dans un salon de discussion
En octobre 2002, le Sénégal annonçait son intention de réformer son enseignement officiel en y introduisant des cours de religion et des cours dans les langues locales et en incluant les écoles coraniques dans le système formel. Ces mesures visent à faire augmenter le taux de scolarisation du pays, conformément aux recommandations des bailleurs de fonds. C’est une logique libérale contemporaine, celle du respect des préférences des usagers, qui c…
Neither ‘Reading’ nor ‘Writing’: The History of Practical Work in Media Education
(1995). Neither ‘Reading’ nor ‘Writing’: The History of Practical Work in Media Education. Changing English: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 77-96
Vivre et apprendre dans un salon de discussion
En octobre 2002, le Sénégal annonçait son intention de réformer son enseignement officiel en y introduisant des cours de religion et des cours dans les langues locales et en incluant les écoles coraniques dans le système formel. Ces mesures visent à faire augmenter le taux de scolarisation du pays, conformément aux recommandations des bailleurs de fonds. C’est une logique libérale contemporaine, celle du respect des préférences des usagers, qui c…
Gotta catch 'em all: Structure, agency and pedagogy in children's media culture
This article uses an analytical case study of the Pokémon phenomenon as a means of addressing broader theoretical issues concerned with the relationships between structure and agency in children's media culture. It analyses the political economy of Pokémon, and its attempts to appeal to different sub-sections of the children's market; the textual appeals of the different Pokémon artefacts, and the role of `knowledge'; and debates about the positi…
Cultural Studies Goes To School
In the context of the growing diversity of contemporary societies and the central importance of the electronic media, the place of popular culture in the school curriculum has become an increasingly controversial political issue. Based on in-depth research in an ethnically mixed, working-class secondary school, Cultural Studies Goes to School is concerned with the relationships between young people's involvement in popular culture outside school …
Cultural Studies and Education: Reflecting on differences, impacts, effects and change
Based on experiences and research at virtually all levels of the English education system I will argue that we can observe the ‘impact’ of Cultural Studies on the forms and practices of Education as a system and as institutions as well as at the more micro-levels of individual learning and even theories of learning itself. These ‘impacts’ will be analysed along three dimensions: the institutionalization and/or incorporation of school subjects (li…
The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age
An intimate look at how children network, identify, learn and grow in a connected world.Read Online at connectedyouth.nyupress.orgDo today’s youth have more opportunities than their parents? As they build their own social and digital networks, does that offer new routes to learning and friendship? How do they navigate the meaning of education in a digitally connected but fiercely competitive, highly individualized world?Based upon fieldwork at an…
Towards a cultural history of digital autodidacticism: Changing Cultural Narratives of Education
The essay argues that the various new imaginaries of the connected, creative, autonomous, coding, motivated and making digital learner have their roots in diverse and older visions of a different kind education system (especially the craft learner working in communities of practice) than that promulgated by the human-capital inspired neoliberal governmentalised States in the world today. Tracing the histories of the older imaginaries in a cultura…
Digital Rights, Digital Citizenship and Digital Literacy: What’s the Difference?
Using digital media is complicated. Invasions of privacy, increasing dataveillance, digital-by-default commercial and civic transactions and the erosion of the democratic sphere are just some of the complex issues in modern societies. Existential questions associated with digital life challenge the individual to come to terms with who they are, as well as their social interactions and realities. In this article, we identify three contemporary nor…
Critical literacy, schooling, and social justice: A review of Allan Luke’s collected essays (2018)
In the wider context of ways that Literacy works to enforce control by elites, the maintenance of high culture, racial stratification, national identity and social injustice through education, this review essay reflects on Allan Luke’s collected essays republished by Routledge in 2018 as Critical literacy, schooling, and social justice: The selected works of Allan Luke. The article engages with some of the book’s key concerns, investigating: scho…
The death of the educative subject? The limits of criticality under datafication
Amidst ongoing technological and social change, this article explores the implications for critical education that result from a data-driven model of digital governance. The article argues that traditional notions of critique which rely upon the deconstruction and analysis of texts are increasingly redundant in the age of datafication, where the production of information is automated and hidden. The article explains the concept of the ‘educative …
Is the re-contextualization of digital writing inevitable, escapable or desirable
Digital writing is constantly in tension with the way that school recontextualizes forms of resistance and vernacular knowledge in order to sustain control and power relations across society. Yet the social practices of digital writing are diverse, wide-ranging and constantly challenge forms of authorized knowledge across a variety of different social domains. This article considers definitions of digital writing (what is counted as such, by whom…
Reconceptualizing the teaching and learning of digital writing
Situated in a broad sociocultural framework, the new literacies movement of the 1980s tried to open up narrow and restricted definitions of literacy as simply competence in reading and writing prin
Learning to Live with Datafication: Educational Case Studies and Initiatives from Across the World
Is there a ‘theory of learning’ for Cultural Studies and is it (still) relevant in an era of surveillance capitalism
This article questions how cultural studies has been constructed as an educational project to examine if it might offer principles for learning about living in digital culture now. It first considers how the subject of Cultural Studies developed in relationship to education and then revisits empirical studies of cultural studies in schools. The essay engages with perspectives on evaluating the effects of these approaches and situates debates abou…
Embodied technology use: Unaccompanied refugee youth and the migrant platformed body
For unaccompanied refugee youth, technology occupies a central role in their lives. It helps them when crossing countries, finding a shelter, and accessing education, or even in negotiating family relations online (e.g., Çelikaksoy & Wadensjö, 2017; Marlowe & Bruns, 2020; Morrice et al., 2020). Research with young refugees shows that social media and smart devices have become essential means to resolve many challenges (Kutscher & Kreß, 2018). The…
Towards platform pedagogies: Why Thinking About Digital Platforms as Pedagogic Devices Might Be Useful
In a context where current forms of governance and polity across many societies are engaging with ‘platformisation’, the paper argues that the utility and consequences of using a theory of pedagogy can provide a different way to explain how digital technology might ‘determine’ subjectivity. This paper describes the key process of how platforms work when considered as a ‘pedagogic device’: paying particular attention to how users ‘learn’ or are ‘s…
The desire to learn: The alienation and reimagining of pedagogy on YouTube, Twitch and TikTok
Contains fulltext : 326244.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Researching the Edtech Industry for Children: Methodological Reflections on a Design-Based Approach
Digital platforms and services are making inroads into the everyday lives of even very young children. As with many other domains of life, children’s learning and education are increasingly digitised through ‘educational technology’ software, or more commonly EdTech. The rise of the EdTech industry provokes new questions about children’s education in the digital age. Methodologically, studying the EdTech industry for children largely falls in the…
What Australian research offers the study of digital childhoods: A scoping review of digital media use by families with young children
This article examines current Australian research about digital media use by families with young children. Informed by a scoping review of 55 publications (2017–2022), we use select findings as departure points to consider how Australian media and communications research can meaningfully contribute to both local and international knowledge. We find that current Australian research largely mirrors international trends, particularly in its lack of …
Edutainment 2.0 or eduwashing? The production of educational legitimacy for children’s apps
On the Apple App Store or Google Play Store, parents can choose from a dazzling number of ‘edutainment apps’ that claim to teach children essential skills whilst also being ‘fun’ and ‘engaging’. In this article, we introduce the phenomenon of ‘eduwashing’ by showing the variety of semantic strategies used by app developers to ‘produce’ educational legitimacy. Taking the popular app Lingokids as a case study, we identify the following three dimens…
Is My Child Normal? Sciency Discourses in Online Parenting Advice Cultures
For some decades, scholars have documented the expansion of discourses of ‘intensive’ parenting in Anglo-American culture and the increasing mediation of family life. In this context, this article argues that online culture is increasingly responsible for an ever-present instructional address, in which parents are continually targeted with advice from many voices, automated, known and unknown, all claiming various kinds of expertise about how to …
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (12 works) · Literacy, Media, and Education (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Pedagogy (9 works) · Social science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (4 works)