Gourlay, L;
Littlejohn, A;
Oliver, M;
Potter, J;
(2021)
Lockdown literacies and semiotic assemblages: academic boundary work in the Covid-19 crisis.
Learning, Media and Technology
, 46
(4)
pp. 377-389.
10.1080/17439884.2021.1900242.
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Abstract
In March 2020, populations were forced into home quarantine to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Universities moved the majority of their operations to homeworking, with profound implications for students, academics, and professional services staff. This paper analyses interview and visual data collected as part of a study on the impact of ‘moving online’ on staff at a large UK university. Drawing on sociomaterial perspectives, it considers the status and role of academics’ literacy practices under lockdown, focusing particularly on the ways in which a range of boundaries are negotiated – spatial, temporal, material, digital, professional, personal and emotional – in a setting where conventional boundaries have been profoundly disrupted. We argue that these practices form part of emergent, restless and shifting semiotic assemblages. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of this conceptual shift for academic work, meaning-making and academic subjectivities, in lockdown and beyond.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Lockdown literacies and semiotic assemblages: academic boundary work in the Covid-19 crisis |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17439884.2021.1900242 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2021.1900242 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
| Keywords: | Literacy events, sociomateriality, posthumanism, semiotic assemblage, Covid-19 |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10125999 |
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