ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with clarifying the understanding of digital technology in the context of learning and investigates how digital devices and systems transform the activity of learning and person’s conduct of everyday life. The chapter shows that digital devices are not simply neutral means to an end, but contradictory and political artifacts that embody power and materialized action and reconstitute the practice of learning. Not only learners do something with the digital devices, but the digital devices also do something with the learners. Most importantly, they transform human experience, the conduct of everyday life, and the relationship between subject and world, placing human life in a historically new situation of two-sided digital connectedness. A description of this new situation is central to this chapter, as is an analysis of the politics of digital artifacts and their implications for learning as a worlding practice.
