Making visible the invisible
Exploring McLuhan’s figure/ground in digital citizenship education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12778993 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ingrid Forsler (0000-0002-1548-1981, Södertörn University, corresponding author), Michelle Ciccone (0000-0002-8980-3576, University of Massachusetts Amherst) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 437-455 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Explorations in Media Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1539-7785 • E-ISSN: 2048-0717 |
| Publisher | Intellect (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/eme_00110_1 |
| OpenAlex | W4200136940 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 15 |
Figure and ground are analytical concepts used to discuss how some elements of a lived situation dominate perception, while others remain in the background. This applies not least to media and research from the medium theoretical tradition as well as later scholarship on media infrastructures, which have been keen to explore the taken for granted or invisible aspects of the media landscape. In media education, however, there is still a tendency to focus on the figure of digital media by treating media technologies as tools or to focus on the critical evaluation of media content. This article draws on McLuhan’s co-authored textbook City as Classroom to suggest a pedagogical turn towards the ground of the internet. Based on concrete examples from middle school digital citizenship education, the article shows how a focus on the ground of digitalization actualizes topics such as environmental concerns, global inequalities and data privacy. These topics are conceptualized and discussed through the environmental/spatial metaphors clouds, exhaust and architecture
Aesthetics · Art · Citizenship · Common ground · Digital media · Focus (optics · Media ecology · Media studies · Media theory · New media · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Communication · Computer Science · Law · Literacy, Media, and Education · Media, Communication, and Education
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| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |