Media & Communications - Projects

The internet and new knowledge production in the twenty-first century

Robert Hassan is working on a book exploring the ways in which new technologies are creating an "informational ecology" based on a real-time temporality. The primary theme of the study is an examination of the effects of this on teaching and learning in higher education institutions. What kind of knowledge is being produced in the increasingly commercialised higher education sector? How effectively do we learn in a real-time environment? To what extent is our capacity for critical thinking, our ability to think reflexively about subjects and issues, enhanced or impaired by learning in a real-time environment?