ABSTRACT
In this chapter we consider the aesthetics, feelings and commitments that generate liveliness in digital communication. Drawing on the work of Bennett (2001), we explore how we might work with or provoke a mood of enchantment in our work as researchers and practitioners, and how this might be useful in promoting generative relationships between research, practice and educational institutions. We explore the role of enchantment in social–material–textual arrangements (whether involving digital technologies of not), and the way that enchantment can infuse the research process. In doing so, we explore enchantment as a way of thinking (or feeling) with literacy-as-event and consider how enchantment might be implicated in the ethic of caring discussed in the previous chapter.
