Digital Media and Learner Identity The New Curatorship

Many studies of digital education focus on technology rather than on the learners or on what they make and do with the devices they use every day. This book takes a different path, putting the learners and their lives at the heart of the narrative. Through an in-depth account of media production activities by younger learners it shows their motivations and dispositions in storying their identity in short video pieces. It suggests that their authoring and editing practices are examples of the new curatorship: the representation through life of identity and affiliation in digital media. It considers the implications of this for teaching and learning in the years to come and concludes with a manifesto for a future media education.

John Potter is a Senior Lecturer in Education and New Media in the Department of Culture, Communication and Media at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.

Introducing new literacy and identity*Describing digital video production*Media literacy: Forms and organising structures*Identity: Storying the self*Recorded performance and locative memory*Forms and coherence*Location memory and voice*Curatorship as a new literacy practice*Curatorship and learning: Implications of emergent principles and practices