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Publication Date: 2021
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Digital Flesh: A Feminist Approach to the Body in Cyberspace
Gender and Education, v33 n5 p578-593 2021
Despite the rapid growth of digital learning, the relationship between the body and new information technologies has been underexamined in education research literature. This study presents a feminist conceptual framework in order to situate the body as an issue central to the academic discussion of online education. This paper extends feminist technoscience scholars' notion of co-constructing gender-technology by critiquing the disembodied approach to emerging education technologies. By integrating the philosophical approaches to the body of Butler and several phenomenologists, the author suggests alternative ways of understanding online learning environments based on a literature review. This new feminist phenomenological concept, digital flesh, prompts a greater awareness of the gendered materiality of cyberspace that challenges the dominant discourse of learning technology, as evidenced by recent artificial intelligence experiments.
Descriptors: Human Body, Gender Issues, Feminism, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Mediated Communication, Online Courses, Gender Bias, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics
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Language: English
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