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LEARNING MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY
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ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/17439884.2022.2163500
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EdTech; higher education; legitimacy; discourse; criticality
This paper examines the impact of the pandemic on technology in higher education through a Critical Discourse Analysis, and highlights the issues and inequalities in the rhetoric surrounding technological adoption. It argues that portraying technology as a wholly beneficial enterprise obscures other issues and inequalities, and is mediatory of neoliberal and consumerist ideologies.
Whilst technology may have been the 'saviour' of HE from the immediate challenges of the pandemic, the opportunistic dialogue emerging in response is imbued with notions of the pandemic as a catalyst for change. Empowered by the apparent success of technology's deliverance, the door has been opened to unprecedented investment into a pervasive and data-driven paradigm of technology. Utilising a Critical Discourse Analysis of sector-orientated literature published in response to the pandemic, this paper examines the emergent rhetoric of technology and problematises taken for granted assumptions concerning its adoption in the imagined future of HE. This paper argues that such rhetoric is mediatory of neoliberal and consumerist ideologies, and that the portrayal of technology as a wholly beneficial enterprise obscures other issues and inequalities. By positioning educational technology in a uniquely political light, this paper offers a critical lens through which to view this new era of technological pervasion.
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