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Futures studies, mobilities, and the postdigital condition: Contention or complement
Traxler, John Connor, Stuart Hayes, Sarah Jandrić, Petar
Traxler, John
Connor, Stuart
Hayes, Sarah
Jandrić, Petar
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2021-07-12
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This paper explores relationships between recent developments in the fields of mobilities, futures, and postdigital studies. The article covers six main themes: questions and their histories; definitions; research methods and ethics; the nature and ownership of knowing and learning; understandings of time, space, identity, community and relationships; political processes and political legitimacy. The article was written in three steps. In the first step, the leading author (John Traxler) has identified the relevant themes. In the second step, proponents of each position have freely responded to the themes (futures studies, Stuart Connor; postdigital theory, Sarah Hayes and Petar Jandrić; mobilities, John Traxler). In the third step, the responses have been collectively (re)mixed and edited, identifying complementary and conflicting concepts and ideas. The article was initiated a month before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, and it was completed just over a year later. Thusly, responses and analyses have included the pandemic experience without explicitly focusing to the Covid-19 pandemic. The paper concludes with drawing together contributions, seeking underlying commonalities and differences, and looking for trends, convergence, and change. Epistemically, the three positions discussed in this paper are far from commensurable. Yet they are compatible and complementary, in a postdigital dialogue, in a sense that they all need each others’ inputs on the road to a better understanding of our current condition, and the road to a better future.
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Traxler, J., Connor, S., Hayes, S. & Jandric, P. (2022) Futures studies, mobilities, and the postdigital condition: Contention or complement, Postdigital Science and Education, 4, pp. 494–518.
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This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Springer Nature in Postdigital Science and Education, available online: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-021-00245-5
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