LOM#34: Postdigital perspectives on education, learning, and technology

Editor: Inger-Marie Falgren Christensen (imc@sdu.dk) 
Editor: Christian Dalsgaard (cdalsgaard@edu.au.dk)
Editor: Andreas Lindenskov Tamborg (andreas_tamborg@ind.ku.dk) 

The postdigital direction within education seeks to remove the “digital prefix” from our thinking about teaching and learning, and to move beyond oppositions and dichotomies such as “the digital vs. the analogue.” Today, we speak of digital pedagogy and digital literacy, we contrast the analogue with the digital, and we distinguish between teaching with and without screens. The postdigital perspective takes as its point of departure that such oppositions make little sense in educational practice. Likewise, the postdigital expresses a rejection of mantras such as “technology drives pedagogy” and “pedagogy before technology.” 

From a postdigital perspective, there are transformative potentials in abandoning the traditional distinction between analogue and digital, and instead developing education and teaching based on the entanglements of people, places, spaces, objects, technologies, activities, and so on. It is precisely such entanglements that we wish to make the subject of inquiry in this special issue—both to illuminate how postdigital perspectives can contribute to creating new pathways in educational and teaching development, and to provide insights into the barriers and challenges associated with such a shift in perspective. 

The postdigital perspective is both technology-critical and pedagogy-critical, seeking to challenge ‘humanistic determinism’ as well as ‘technological determinism.’ In doing so, it also enables a sharper focus on how pedagogy and technology are intertwined with, for example, agency, (in)equality, and power. 

We invite papers that: 

• Explore the potentials and challenges associated with the postdigital perspective in teaching and education. 

• Apply postdigital concepts, theories, models, and methods to educational and teaching practices. 

• Investigate new forms of work, role distributions, learning processes, activities, tasks, methods, and literacies in which the entanglement of technologies, objects, people, places, and processes is central. 

• Examine the postdigital perspective theoretically, empirically, and through practical cases. 

• Explore the postdigital in ways that this call itself cannot yet imagine. 
  
  

Important dates 

• Submission of abstract (100 – 200 words): 1 December 2025. Submit your abstract via e-mail to one of the editors.  

• Notification of acceptance/rejection: 19 December 2025 

• Manuscript (or media product): 1 March 2026 

• Review sent to authors: 1 May 2026 

• Final manuscript: 20 May 2026 

• Publication of issue: Summer 2026 

About the journal  

Read about the Journal Læring og Medier (LOM): https://tidsskrift.dk/lom/about 

 Read about guidelines and directions for authors:  https://tidsskrift.dk/lom/about/submissions