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In this chapter I outline a multidimensional approach to doing participatory action design research (PADR) with young people learning in what I theorize as “proprietary ecologies”. Proprietary ecologies are the multidimensional ecosystems of privatized data flows within which everyday life increasingly takes place. I use proprietary strategically to describe media that is privately owned and controlled through capitalist property regimes such as trademarks, copyrights, and patents. I theorize this as an “ecology” because the concept bridges an IT discourse of information systems that interact at various scales (i.e. information ecology) with a spatial understanding of the relations of production and reproduction at various scales (i.e. political ecology).
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Donovan, G.T. (2014). Opening Proprietary Ecologies. In: Gudmundsdottir, G.B., Vasbø, K.B. (eds) Methodological Challenges When Exploring Digital Learning Spaces in Education. New Research – New Voices. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-737-7_5
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