Postdigital Knowledge Cultures and Their Politics

izvorni znanstveni rad

izvorni znanstveni rad

Postdigital Knowledge Cultures and Their Politics

Vrsta prilog u časopisu
Tip izvorni znanstveni rad
Godina 2018
Časopis ECNU review of education
Nadređena publikacija ECNU Review of Education
Volumen 1
Svesčić 2
Stranice str. 23-43
DOI 10.30926/ecnuroe2018010202
ISSN 2096-5311
EISSN 2632-1742
Status objavljeno

Sažetak

Purpose—This paper aims at exploring politics of contemporary knowledge cultures and possible directions for responding to the postdigital challenge. Design/Approach/Methods—This paper researches history and present of several prominent strands and readings of the knowledge economy. Following Caruso’s work (2016), it examines more closely the differences between the managerial paradigm and the cognitive capitalism paradigm. Recognizing the postdigital nature of contemporary knowledge cultures, it points towards a postdigital merger between the managerial paradigm and the cognitive capitalism paradigm. Findings—The paper identifies individual and social tensions between industrial and post-industrial modes of production and rapidly changing dynamic of social development. It examines the relationships between knowledge cultures and digital technologies. Based on recent insights by the father of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee and his non-determinist views to digital technologies, it identifies knowledge cultures as sites of political struggle against various (material and non-material, technological and non-technological) closures over access to information and knowledge. Finally, it briefly outlines possible directions for responding to the postdigital challenge of knowledge cultures. Originality/Value—The paper provides an original contribution to theory of knowledge cultures and its relationships to the postdigital condition.

Ključne riječi

Knowledge cultures ; postdigital ; knowledge economy ; managerial capitalism ; cognitive capitalism