Visual regimes and visual technologies in digital classrooms: Exploring educational uses of new media

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Abstract

The paper explores the conflictive relationships between the visual regime that was supported by modern schooling, based on a centralized display of images and on a deep, focused attention, and the new visual regime promoted by digital media, decentralized, disperse, and interested in surfaces and “surfing.” Grounding on Foucault, Latour, and on recent debates in the field of visual studies, and discussing the findings of research conducted in Argentinean secondary schools, I will argue that the uses of digital media in classrooms express significant changes in the organization of attention, in the visual archives and the visual technologies that are mobilized, and in the notion of authorship of visual texts, changes that need to be interrogated.

Author

• Ines Dussel, DIE-CINVESTAV/Mexico