The Digital Age and Its Discontents: Critical Reflections in Education

Three decades into the ‘digital age', the promises of emancipation of the digital ‘revolution'in education are still unfulfilled. Furthermore, digitalization seems to generate new and unexpected challenges – for example, the unwarranted influence of digital monopolies, the radicalization of politica...

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Autor principal: Matteo Stocchetti
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Publicado: Helsinki University Press 2020
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