ABSTRACT
This chapter reconceptualises digital agency through a socio-materialist lens, using the questions that are sometimes asked of us on social media platforms: ‘What are you doing?’ and ‘What’s happening’ as entry points for understanding how human–technology relationships materialise. The chapter advances a posthumanist perspective on digital literacies that focuses on the micro-actions—clicking, swiping, tapping—through which agency emerges as an intra-actional accomplishment. It proposes a framework for exploring human–technological agencing which focuses on: interfacing, the material-discursive practices through which boundaries between humans and technologies are enacted; inferencing, the interpretive processes through which humans and machines make sense of each other’s behaviour; and historical bodies, the sedimented materialisations that emerge through repeated practices of human–technology intra-action. The chapter concludes by proposing pedagogical interventions that position learners not merely as users of technology but as active participants in the ongoing material becoming of sociotechnical systems, capable of reimagining and repairing their relationships with digital technologies ‘one click at a time’.
