Luci Pangrazio
Biographic Data
| ID | 355823 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luci Pangrazio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luci |
| FAMILY NAME | Pangrazio |
| SIGNATURE | PANGRAZIO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7346-1313 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 33 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Friendly monsters, nudged confessions and routinised engagement
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, we have witnessed an influx of apps on the online marketplaces promising to improve the well-being and mental health of children and young people. Drawing on Fairclough's concept of recontextualisation , we investigate how well-being is represented and operationalised in four of these apps. We identified four common recontextualisation rules: (1) using monsters or anthropomorphic characters as mentors and guides; (2) …
The Diversity of Everyday Experiences of Families and Children With Digital Technologies
This panel examines how parents and carers make decisions about the access and use of digital technologies by their young children. With many family practices now mediatized, it explores the conditions under which family members (re)negotiate their understandings about their children’s relationship with technology and the tensions that emerge. The panel combines five papers which focus on the diversity of daily digital experiences of families and…
The (im)possibility of AI literacy
The hype surrounding the potential of AI to augment human capabilities and supercharge productivity is matched by fears that it will irrevocably change life and the world as we know it. On the one
The power of the norm
While education data is frequently collected and used in schools, critical edtech research has revealed a range of issues and harms for individuals and institutions. In this article, the authors investigate how school administrators, teachers, parents and students understand the collection, use and disclosure of school data. They foreground data justice to reveal systemic issues in Australian education, revealing a complex picture of how school d…
From a ‘patchwork of platforms’ to the platformized school? The changing nature of data infrastructures in education
This article examines recent trends in the data infrastructures of Australian schools. Data interoperability has become integral to school operations as it enables data to flow between the array of applications that are used by the school and the broader school system by using a standardized format. It leads to more efficient, responsive and inclusive school processes. By contrast, a lack of interoperability means staff are called on to manually …
Assembling parents
This article examines digital parenting in the age of datafication. Based on in-depth interviews with 22 parents, the article explores the digital experiences of Australian families with at least one child aged eight years and under. Findings reveal that datafication has changed the way children experience digital technologies and how it is mediated by families. The article discusses the tensions parents must navigate, including providing digital…
Future challenges for critical research on educational technologies
2025 has been a significant year for critical research on educational technologies. In our last collective editorial, the past and present editors of Learning, Media and Technology looked back over
Looking back and looking forward
Anniversaries of all kinds are good opportunities to look back and reflect, as well as to look forward to the future. Learning, Media and Technology is now 20 years old, but it also has a longer hi
Domesticating data-generating technologies in Australian homes
Family homes are now sites of data generation. Devices, smart home technologies, and connected toys generate data that can be collected and processed to bring detailed insights into family life. This article combines critical data studies with domestication theory to investigate how data-generating technologies are integrated into family routines. Drawing on two detailed case studies, the article explores how Australian families with children und…
Studying the datafication of Australian childhoods
The home is a crucial site of young children's early encounters with digitally connected technologies. It is here that their emerging digital footprints are being formed and where digital data about them is being produced then collected, analysed and commodified in varying ways. While much is speculated about the rise of intelligent assistants, baby monitors, connected toys and goods, there is little quantitative information available about what …
The dashboard school
The use of digital data dashboards is increasingly common in education. Dashboards often have visually appealing layouts and promise to make complex phenomena and large data sets visible and actionable to inform so-called ‘data-driven’ decision-making. In this paper we present a case-study of local dashboard governance in an independent school in Australia that recently implemented a series of dashboards created with Microsoft PowerBI. Drawing on…
Data Harms
Time and time again, we see the risks of collecting huge amounts of personal data about students. In the news, cyberattacks and data breaches at schools make headlines, and there is a body of academic research dedicated to critical studies of education data (Williamson 2019 ; Jarke and Breiter 2019 ; Selwyn et al. 2018 ). However, in schools and education departments, the role of data is rarely questioned—it provides granular insights into studen…
Googlization(s) of education
The ‘googlization’ of education is emblematic of the growing power of private tech companies in schools across the globe, challenging education as a public good. While critical scholarship has started unpacking the ideological, pedagogical and economical logics underpinning Google’s digital infrastructure in schools, we have little insight into how googlization unfolds in education systems across the world. This article addresses this by examinin…
Introduction to Youth, digital media, and civic engagement
This thematic issue brings together timely research in global case studies pointing to similarities and differences among youth’s digital civic engagements and activism across different cultural contexts. In so doing, the authors’ contributions point to the intersection of a number of foci in digital studies: youth, digital media, democracy, and public discourse in the digital commons. As a global collaboration, the special issue offers insight i…
Data justice in education
Educational institutions increasingly rely on digital platforms to deliver content and learning, monitor attendance, communicate with stakeholders, and evaluate institutional performance. Despite the efficiency and accessibility gains they offer, digital platforms are powered by personal data which, through a process of datafication, can be used to track, monitor, and profile staff and students. The insights drawn from this data can be used to sh…
A patchwork of platforms
This paper explores the significance of schools’ data infrastructures as a site of institutional power and (re)configuration. Using ‘infrastructure studies’ as a theoretical framework and drawing on in-depth studies of three contrasting Australian secondary schools, the paper takes a holistic look at schools’ data infrastructures. In contrast to the notion of the ‘platformatised’ school, the paper details the ad hoc and compromised ways that thes…
The critical study of digital platforms and infrastructures
Digital platforms have become integral to contemporary schooling. Google Classroom, Compass, Office 365, EdQuire, ClassDojo and Canvas are just some of the many platforms that litter students’ and teachers’ computers today. While students may have only one school to physically attend, there is a labyrinth of digital enclosures for them to navigate as part of their schooling. The rise of digital platforms in education has occurred at an erratic ra…
Tracking technology
The use of digital technologies within schools is leading to the increased generation, processing and circulation of data relating to students. To date, academic research around this ‘datafication’ of schools and schooling has tended to focus on institutional issues of governance and commercialisation, with relatively little consideration of students’ experiences. Drawing on focus group discussions with 62 students across three Australian seconda…
Old Media, New Gigs
This article analyses the representation of the gig economy in three Australian newspapers from 2014 to 2019. 'Gig work' is defined as short term, contract or freelance employment and is seen by many social institutions as the future of work. Drawing on a corpus of 426 articles, Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory is used to examine the construction of the 'gig economy' in the cultural imaginary. Five key elements emerge, including: demographics…
Datafication Meets Platformization
In this contribution to the Platform Studies in Education symposium, Luci Pangrazio, Amy Stornaiuolo, T. Philip Nichols, Antero Garcia, and Thomas M. Philip explore how digital platforms can be used to build knowledge and understanding of datafication processes among teachers and students. The essay responds to the turn toward data-driven teaching and learning in education and argues that digital data is not only generated through national, state…
Learning to Live with Datafication
Knowing the (Datafied) Student
This paper considers the subjectivation of students in light of the increasing amounts of digital data that are now being produced within schools. Taking a lead from critical data studies and the sociology of numbers, the paper draws on staff interviews in three Australian secondary schools to explore the various types of student data being generated, and the forms of student subjectivities that result. In particular, the paper contrasts the ‘hol…
Digital Rights, Digital Citizenship and Digital Literacy
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…
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 …
What might the school of 2030 be like? An exercise in social science fiction
This article addresses the deliberately speculative question of ‘What might the school of 2030 be like?’, with a specific focus on the influences of digital technologies. The article adopts the methodological approach of ‘social science fiction’ to explore the ways in which digital technologies might be used in one Australian high school in 2030 (Lakeside), and what this might mean for the people whose lives are enmeshed with these technologies. …
Personal data literacies’
The capacity to understand and control one’s personal data is now a crucial part of living in contemporary society. In this sense, traditional concerns over supporting the development of ‘digital literacy’ are now being usurped by concerns over citizens’ ‘data literacies’. In contrast to recent data safety and data science approaches, this article argues for a more critical form of ‘personal data literacies’ where digital data are understood as s…
Reconceptualising critical digital literacy
While it has proved a useful concept during the past 20 years, the notion of ‘critical digital literacy’ requires rethinking in light of the fast-changing nature of young people's digital practices. This paper contrasts long-established notions of ‘critical digital literacy’ (based primarily around the critical consumption of digital forms) with the recent turn towards ‘digital design literacy’ (based around the production of digital forms). In d…
Old Media, New Gigs
This article analyses the representation of the gig economy in three Australian newspapers from 2014 to 2019. 'Gig work' is defined as short term, contract or freelance employment and is seen by many social institutions as the future of work. Drawing on a corpus of 426 articles, Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory is used to examine the construction of the 'gig economy' in the cultural imaginary. Five key elements emerge, including: demographics…
Knowing the (Datafied) Student
This paper considers the subjectivation of students in light of the increasing amounts of digital data that are now being produced within schools. Taking a lead from critical data studies and the sociology of numbers, the paper draws on staff interviews in three Australian secondary schools to explore the various types of student data being generated, and the forms of student subjectivities that result. In particular, the paper contrasts the ‘hol…
Exploring provocation as a research method in the social sciences
This paper explores provocation as an approach towards social science research. While routinely used in natural science and arts research, this paper argues provocation might enable the social science researcher to initiate critical reflection amongst participants on issues that are often otherwise overlooked, obscured or accepted as naturalised practice. By assuming the role of provocateur, stimulator and/or agitator, the social science research…
Doing data differently? Developing personal data tactics and strategies amongst young mobile media users
Large amounts of personal data are generated through young people's engagements with mobile media, with these data increasingly (re)used by advertisers, content developers and other third parties to profile, predict and position individuals. This has prompted growing concerns over the ability of mobile media users to develop informed stances towards how and why their data is being used, i.e. to build 'conscious' and/or 'resistant' forms of 'data …
It's Not Like It's Life or Death or Whatever
Young people's engagements with social media now generate large quantities of personal data, with 'big social data' becoming an increasingly important 'currency' in the digital economy. While using social media platforms is ostensibly 'free,' users nevertheless 'pay' for these services through their personal data-enabling advertisers, content developers, and other third parties to profile, predict, and position individuals. Such developments have…
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 …
Technologically situated
The ways in which young people use digital platforms develop with experience, and are guided by changing understandings of what they should – and should not – be doing online. As such, young people continually develop tacit rules and understandings that guide their platform participation. While based on social interactions with peers and other online contacts these rules are also technologically situated through the architecture of the platform. …
Data justice in education
Educational institutions increasingly rely on digital platforms to deliver content and learning, monitor attendance, communicate with stakeholders, and evaluate institutional performance. Despite the efficiency and accessibility gains they offer, digital platforms are powered by personal data which, through a process of datafication, can be used to track, monitor, and profile staff and students. The insights drawn from this data can be used to sh…
Educating on the margins
Like many countries, Australia has persistent rates of school exclusion, juvenile offending and recidivism. In response, there has been a growth of ‘alternative education’ provision – interventions that support young people to engage with learning opportunities outside the conventional education system. While alternative education programs educate more than 70,000 students each year across Australia, evidence of their effectiveness is lacking. Th…
The dashboard school
The use of digital data dashboards is increasingly common in education. Dashboards often have visually appealing layouts and promise to make complex phenomena and large data sets visible and actionable to inform so-called ‘data-driven’ decision-making. In this paper we present a case-study of local dashboard governance in an independent school in Australia that recently implemented a series of dashboards created with Microsoft PowerBI. Drawing on…
Exploring provocation as a research method in the social sciences
This paper explores provocation as an approach towards social science research. While routinely used in natural science and arts research, this paper argues provocation might enable the social science researcher to initiate critical reflection amongst participants on issues that are often otherwise overlooked, obscured or accepted as naturalised practice. By assuming the role of provocateur, stimulator and/or agitator, the social science research…
Reconceptualising critical digital literacy
While it has proved a useful concept during the past 20 years, the notion of ‘critical digital literacy’ requires rethinking in light of the fast-changing nature of young people's digital practices. This paper contrasts long-established notions of ‘critical digital literacy’ (based primarily around the critical consumption of digital forms) with the recent turn towards ‘digital design literacy’ (based around the production of digital forms). In d…
Personal data literacies’
The capacity to understand and control one’s personal data is now a crucial part of living in contemporary society. In this sense, traditional concerns over supporting the development of ‘digital literacy’ are now being usurped by concerns over citizens’ ‘data literacies’. In contrast to recent data safety and data science approaches, this article argues for a more critical form of ‘personal data literacies’ where digital data are understood as s…
Educating on the margins
Like many countries, Australia has persistent rates of school exclusion, juvenile offending and recidivism. In response, there has been a growth of ‘alternative education’ provision – interventions that support young people to engage with learning opportunities outside the conventional education system. While alternative education programs educate more than 70,000 students each year across Australia, evidence of their effectiveness is lacking. Th…
Doing data differently? Developing personal data tactics and strategies amongst young mobile media users
Large amounts of personal data are generated through young people's engagements with mobile media, with these data increasingly (re)used by advertisers, content developers and other third parties to profile, predict and position individuals. This has prompted growing concerns over the ability of mobile media users to develop informed stances towards how and why their data is being used, i.e. to build 'conscious' and/or 'resistant' forms of 'data …
It's Not Like It's Life or Death or Whatever
Young people's engagements with social media now generate large quantities of personal data, with 'big social data' becoming an increasingly important 'currency' in the digital economy. While using social media platforms is ostensibly 'free,' users nevertheless 'pay' for these services through their personal data-enabling advertisers, content developers, and other third parties to profile, predict, and position individuals. Such developments have…
Technologically situated
The ways in which young people use digital platforms develop with experience, and are guided by changing understandings of what they should – and should not – be doing online. As such, young people continually develop tacit rules and understandings that guide their platform participation. While based on social interactions with peers and other online contacts these rules are also technologically situated through the architecture of the platform. …
What might the school of 2030 be like? An exercise in social science fiction
This article addresses the deliberately speculative question of ‘What might the school of 2030 be like?’, with a specific focus on the influences of digital technologies. The article adopts the methodological approach of ‘social science fiction’ to explore the ways in which digital technologies might be used in one Australian high school in 2030 (Lakeside), and what this might mean for the people whose lives are enmeshed with these technologies. …
What is digital literacy? A comparative review of publications across three language contexts
Many scholars across the world have studied the knowledge, skills and dispositions needed to use digital media. Yet as digital texts have proliferated and evolved, there has been much conjecture over what it means to be ‘digitally literate’. As literacy researchers from Australia, Sweden and Argentina we are concerned with the drive to standardise definitions of ‘digital literacy’ despite notable differences in the cultural politics of education …
Digital Rights, Digital Citizenship and Digital Literacy
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…
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 …
Datafication Meets Platformization
In this contribution to the Platform Studies in Education symposium, Luci Pangrazio, Amy Stornaiuolo, T. Philip Nichols, Antero Garcia, and Thomas M. Philip explore how digital platforms can be used to build knowledge and understanding of datafication processes among teachers and students. The essay responds to the turn toward data-driven teaching and learning in education and argues that digital data is not only generated through national, state…
Learning to Live with Datafication
Knowing the (Datafied) Student
This paper considers the subjectivation of students in light of the increasing amounts of digital data that are now being produced within schools. Taking a lead from critical data studies and the sociology of numbers, the paper draws on staff interviews in three Australian secondary schools to explore the various types of student data being generated, and the forms of student subjectivities that result. In particular, the paper contrasts the ‘hol…
A patchwork of platforms
This paper explores the significance of schools’ data infrastructures as a site of institutional power and (re)configuration. Using ‘infrastructure studies’ as a theoretical framework and drawing on in-depth studies of three contrasting Australian secondary schools, the paper takes a holistic look at schools’ data infrastructures. In contrast to the notion of the ‘platformatised’ school, the paper details the ad hoc and compromised ways that thes…
The critical study of digital platforms and infrastructures
Digital platforms have become integral to contemporary schooling. Google Classroom, Compass, Office 365, EdQuire, ClassDojo and Canvas are just some of the many platforms that litter students’ and teachers’ computers today. While students may have only one school to physically attend, there is a labyrinth of digital enclosures for them to navigate as part of their schooling. The rise of digital platforms in education has occurred at an erratic ra…
Tracking technology
The use of digital technologies within schools is leading to the increased generation, processing and circulation of data relating to students. To date, academic research around this ‘datafication’ of schools and schooling has tended to focus on institutional issues of governance and commercialisation, with relatively little consideration of students’ experiences. Drawing on focus group discussions with 62 students across three Australian seconda…
Old Media, New Gigs
This article analyses the representation of the gig economy in three Australian newspapers from 2014 to 2019. 'Gig work' is defined as short term, contract or freelance employment and is seen by many social institutions as the future of work. Drawing on a corpus of 426 articles, Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory is used to examine the construction of the 'gig economy' in the cultural imaginary. Five key elements emerge, including: demographics…
Data Harms
Time and time again, we see the risks of collecting huge amounts of personal data about students. In the news, cyberattacks and data breaches at schools make headlines, and there is a body of academic research dedicated to critical studies of education data (Williamson 2019 ; Jarke and Breiter 2019 ; Selwyn et al. 2018 ). However, in schools and education departments, the role of data is rarely questioned—it provides granular insights into studen…
Googlization(s) of education
The ‘googlization’ of education is emblematic of the growing power of private tech companies in schools across the globe, challenging education as a public good. While critical scholarship has started unpacking the ideological, pedagogical and economical logics underpinning Google’s digital infrastructure in schools, we have little insight into how googlization unfolds in education systems across the world. This article addresses this by examinin…
Introduction to Youth, digital media, and civic engagement
This thematic issue brings together timely research in global case studies pointing to similarities and differences among youth’s digital civic engagements and activism across different cultural contexts. In so doing, the authors’ contributions point to the intersection of a number of foci in digital studies: youth, digital media, democracy, and public discourse in the digital commons. As a global collaboration, the special issue offers insight i…
Data justice in education
Educational institutions increasingly rely on digital platforms to deliver content and learning, monitor attendance, communicate with stakeholders, and evaluate institutional performance. Despite the efficiency and accessibility gains they offer, digital platforms are powered by personal data which, through a process of datafication, can be used to track, monitor, and profile staff and students. The insights drawn from this data can be used to sh…
Future challenges for critical research on educational technologies
2025 has been a significant year for critical research on educational technologies. In our last collective editorial, the past and present editors of Learning, Media and Technology looked back over
Looking back and looking forward
Anniversaries of all kinds are good opportunities to look back and reflect, as well as to look forward to the future. Learning, Media and Technology is now 20 years old, but it also has a longer hi
Domesticating data-generating technologies in Australian homes
Family homes are now sites of data generation. Devices, smart home technologies, and connected toys generate data that can be collected and processed to bring detailed insights into family life. This article combines critical data studies with domestication theory to investigate how data-generating technologies are integrated into family routines. Drawing on two detailed case studies, the article explores how Australian families with children und…
Sociology (23 works) · Computer Science (17 works) · Political science (15 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Pedagogy (11 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Social Media and Politics (8 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (7 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (7 works) · Engineering (6 works)