Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book draws on novel arrangements in, and investigations of, school activities and exemplifies how different forms of agency are enabled through the situated enactments of digital technologies. It explores how the design of a carbon footprint calculator, which is brought into a school context, co-determines students’ ways of reasoning about the environmental impact of everyday activities. The book focuses on the experiences that an interdisciplinary group of scholars had as they collaborated on a data sprint. It aims to illustrate the great variety of collaborative arrangements that can be newtly found fashioning the affordances of digital methods and devices. The book provides a general discussion of guidelines for internet research ethics and highlight temptations and pitfalls in both the design and implementation of such studies.