eprintid: 10143552
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datestamp: 2022-02-16 11:50:37
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creators_name: Gourlay, Lesley
title: Digital masks: screens, selves and symbolic hygiene in online higher education
ispublished: pub
divisions: B14
divisions: J77
divisions: B16
divisions: UCL
keywords: Screens, asynchronous teaching, pandemic, Goffman, masks
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abstract: 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.
date: 2022
date_type: published
publisher: Informa UK Limited
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2022.2039940
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1939288
doi: 10.1080/17439884.2022.2039940
lyricists_name: Gourlay, Lesley
lyricists_id: LJGOU86
actors_name: Gourlay, Lesley
actors_id: LJGOU86
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Learning, Media and Technology
volume: 47
number: 3
pagerange: 398-406
citation:        Gourlay, Lesley;      (2022)    Digital masks: screens, selves and symbolic hygiene in online higher education.                   Learning, Media and Technology , 47  (3)   pp. 398-406.    10.1080/17439884.2022.2039940 <https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2022.2039940>.       Green open access   
 
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