Posthumanism and the Digital University

It is a commonplace in educational policy and theory to claim that digital technology has 'transformed' the university the nature of learning and even the essence of what it means to be a scholar or a student. However these claims have not always been based on strong research evidence. What are students and scholars actually <i>doing</i>in the day-to-day life of the digital university? <br/><br/>This book examines in detail how the world of the digital interacts with texts artefacts devices and humans in the contemporary university setting. Weaving together perspectives from a range of thinkers and disciplinary sources Lesley Gourlay draws on ideas from <i>posthuman</i>and <i>new materialist</i>theory in particular to open up our understanding about how digital knowledge practices operate. She proposes that digital engagement in the university should not be regarded as 'virtual' or disembodied but instead may be understood as a complex set of entanglements of the body texts and material artefacts making a case that agency and the ways in which knowledge emerges should be regarded as 'more than human'.