TY  - JOUR
Y1  - 2022///
PB  - Informa UK Limited
A1  - Gourlay, Lesley
IS  - 3
VL  - 47
N2  - Given the central role of digital devices and screens in academic work, their use and our relationship to them are under-theorised in mainstream research into digital education. The Covid-19 pandemic, however, rendered the use of digital screens central to life in ?lockdowns?. This paper will consider the relationships between digital screens and anti-epidemic face masks, considering these artefacts in terms of functionality, academic subjectivities and epistemic practices, drawing on sociomaterial perspectives, Goffman's categories of lecturing self, and the history of anti-epidemic mask-wearing. I illustrate this with a vignette of teaching via digital screens, given by a member of faculty in an interview study exploring the impact of the lockdown on university staff. It will conclude that the digital screen may be viewed as a ?digital mask?; carrying out a practical function, but also performing an ideology of hygiene and reason. The implications for digital higher education post-pandemic are discussed.
JF  - Learning, Media and Technology
EP  - 406
AV  - public
ID  - discovery10143552
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
KW  - Screens
KW  -  asynchronous teaching
KW  -  pandemic
KW  -  Goffman
KW  -  masks
TI  - Digital masks: screens, selves and symbolic hygiene in online higher education
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2022.2039940
SP  - 398
ER  -