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Educational Media, Reproduction, and Technology: Towards a Critical Political Economy of Educational Media

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This chapter aims at describing the cornerstones of a critical political economy of educational media. For this purpose, some of the central theoretical characteristics of the current discourse on cultural political economy, especially the logic of (re-) production, will be outlined in the first step. Second, the fundamental changes and tendencies in the production of textbooks and educational media, including some empirical findings, will be presented. Next, the expansion of technology on three planes (digitisation, political regulation, subjectivation) will be discussed, including the effects of this expansion on educational media and the conditions of their production. In the conclusion, dimensions for further research will be outlined.

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    ‘… sowohl technische Artefakte wie Sozial- und Selbsttechnologien [umfasst]; er bezieht sich gleichermaßen auf Arrangements von Maschinen, mediale Netzwerke, Aufschreibe- und Visualisierungssysteme […] wie auch auf die sanktionierenden, disziplinierenden, normalisierenden, ‘empowernden’, versichernden, präventiven usw. Verfahren, mit denen Menschen auf das Verhalten anderer Menschen oder auf ihr eigenes Verhalten einwirken’ (Translation N. Watson).

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Höhne, T. (2018). Educational Media, Reproduction, and Technology: Towards a Critical Political Economy of Educational Media. In: Fuchs, E., Bock, A. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Textbook Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53142-1_8

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