On Epistemological Issues in Technologically Infused Spaces: Notes on Virtual Sites for Learning

This chapter focuses upon the omnipresent nature of learning across arenas that are glossed as virtual/digital/online and physical/analogue/offline. It analytically argues for the need to go beyond the normative taken-for-granted nature of the affordances of digitalization in education—both as far as learning is concerned and issues of inclusion, access and participation. This chapter highlights people’s technologically infused contemporary lives—at least as these play out in global-North spaces—and the conceptual challenges involved in studying such an existence.