Inequality, the Production of Difference, and Local School Platforms in a Global Digital World

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Abstract

Digital platforms are increasingly present in schools around the world, though the ways in which they are present are far from universal. In this study, we argue that different platforms and the practices that are occasioned through their use may reflect and/or reinforce inequalities between and within different school contexts. This argument is made following the claim made by, amongst others, Light, Burgess and Duguay (2018) that software are cultural goods that express visions about ideal users and uses. With this claim as an orientation, and drawing on Fourcade’s (2016) notion of classificatory situations, we examine local school platforms used in five different countries to identify ways in which local digital infrastructures in schools are entangled with educational inequalities.

Authors

• Thomas Hillman, University of Gothenburg
  Non-Presenting Author

• Felicitas Macgilchrist, University of Oldenburg
  Presenting Author

• Marie Utterberg Modén, University of Gothenburg
  Non-Presenting Author

• Federico Williams, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores del IPN
  Non-Presenting Author

• Felix Büchner, Leibniz Institute for Educational Media
  Non-Presenting Author

• Svea Kiesewetter, Gothenburg University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Chinaza Uleanya, University of South Africa
  Non-Presenting Author

• Godfrey Muyambi
  Non-Presenting Author

• Patricia Ferrante, Universidad Pedagogica
  Non-Presenting Author