Communication and Learning in an Age of Digital Transformation

David Kergel is Research Associate at the University of Siegen, Germany. Birte Heidkamp-Kergel is the coordinator of the E-Learning Centre at the University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Ronald C. Arnett is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies and the Patricia Doherty Yoder and Ronald Wolfe Endowed Chair in Communication Ethics at Duquesne University, United States. Susan Mancino is Assistant Professor at Saint Mary’s College, United States.

Part I Introduction to Learning in an Age of Digital Transformation. 1. intoduction. 2. Bateson’s Dialogic Pragmatics: The Relational Nature of Learning and Knowledge. 3. Communication Transformations throughout the History of the World’s Fairs. 4. Digital Transformation of Communication and Learning—A Heuristic Overview. Part II Communication in an Age of Digital Transformation. 5. Neodialectic: Media and Resistances in the Digital Age. 6. Technesis and Life Writing. On Discourse and (Digital) Technology. 7. Dark Waters Beneath the Digital Surface. 8. Inhabiting the Digital: Habituating Humanness into Digital Ecologies. 9. Religions and Communication: Digital Transformations. Part III Learning in an Age of Digital Transformation. 10. Communication and Control. Scenarios of Digital Learning. 11. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly—How Different Teachers Will Construe Digitalization Differently. 12. Consumption and Communication: Digital Learning in Liquid Modernity. 13. New Communication – New Learning: The Transformation of Higher Education by Mobile Learning 14. Perspectives on Digitization of German Higher Education. 15. Nothing to See? How to Address Algorithms and Their Impact on the Perception of the World. 16. Conclusion