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Phil Nichols
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Assoc professor @Baylor. Studies: digitalization of/in education; how science/tech shape the ways we practice, teach, and talk about literacy. [he/him]
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With that said, we also acknowledge that this book is not—nor is it meant to be—the final word on its topic. We see it as rallying point in an as-yet-emerging conversation. And we're excited to continue the dialogue with you!
"It is our hope...that readers encounter [these] chapters not only as a record of important, pathbreaking work now unfolding in the field of literacy education but also as a gesture toward the work to be done."
June 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities—edited by me and @anterobot.bsky.social—is out today! 🎉

It's been an absolute privilege to work with so many brilliant people, over multiple years, to make this book a reality.

www.routledge.com/Literacies-i...
Cover of the book, Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities, edited by T. Philip Nichols and Antero Garcia, and published in the 'Expanding Literacies in Education' series at Routledge. Text from the Table of the Contents. List of Figures, List of Tables, Contributor Biographies, Series Editors’ Introduction, Acknowledgments. Introduction: Literacies in the Platform Society by T. Philip Nichols and Antero Garcia PART I — Histories New Towers of Babel: A Conceptual Argument for Digital Platforms as Unstable Linguistic Constructs by Tom Liam Lynch and Mark A. Sulzer Literacy as a Framework for Computing Education: Affordances, Constraints, and New Directions by Jennifer Higgs, Sepehr Vakil and Charles Logan Waiting on the Platform: The Journey to and From Manuscript Central by Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant Table of contents, continued. Racialized Labor and Digital Sites of Struggle on Asian American College YouTube by Sonia Kim Rethinking Affordances and Constraints in the Platform Era by Bradley Robinson PART II - Pedagogies Teachers’ Use of Technological Applications and Platforms: Classroom Management, Data Literacy,and Unexpected Labor by Jessica Zacher Pandya and Gwen Shaffer Human and Non-human Agency in Elementary Literacy Classrooms: Examining ClassDojo as Part of Pedagogical Practice by Evie Poyiadji and Stavroula Kontovourki Platforms as Texts: Restorying Platforms as Collective Resistance by Amy Stornaiuolo and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas Proceduralized Ideologies in Teacher Education: An Analysis of Student Teaching Simulation Software by Earl Aguilera and Mighty Chen Transforming Pedagogies Across Digital Platforms: Playgrid Ecologies as Sites of Emergent Identities and Literacies for Pre-service Teachers by José Ramón Lizárraga, Arturo Cortez, and Kaitlin Baca Table of contents, continued. Part 3 - Possibilities As We May Mark by Remi Kalir Reimagining Digital Social Platforms and Youth Agency in Schools: Youth Participatory Design Research as an Agentic Curricular Approach by Emily Southerton Between Structure and Collective Care: A Humanizing Approach to Resource Curation by Shelley E. Rose, Mary Frances (Molly) Buckley-Marudas and Calida O’Brien Toward a Critical Race Algorithmic Literacy: Preparing Black Youth to “Talk Back” to Algorithmic Bias and Platformed Racism by Tiera Tanksley Afterword: Some Theoretical and Methodological Notes on Platform Literacies by Kris Gutiérrez Index
June 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Thrilled to share "Parametrizing 'the digital': Education research methods for platform ecologies" — new from me, Robert LeBlanc, and @alliethrall.bsky.social in @lmt-journal.bsky.social.

Paywalled now, but will be OA soon (reach out for a PDF in the meantime)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Screenshot of the first page of a Learning, Media, and Technology article, titled "Parametrizing 'the digital': Education research methods for platform ecologies" by T. Philip Nichols, Robert Jean LeBlanc, and Alexandra Thrall
May 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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New chapter with @alliethrall.bsky.social on "platformed privatization" — i.e., how platform technologies smooth the way for private interests to secure footholds in, and control over, public education.

www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...

Paywalled, but as always, reach out if you'd like a PDF!
Screenshot of the first page of a book chapter, titled "Platformed privatization: Data, technology, and the changing infrastructure of educational governance" by T. Philip Nichols and Alexandra Thrall
March 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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New article from me, @charleswlogan.bsky.social, and @anterobot.bsky.social on the evolution of "Luddism" as a social identification and its potentials (and limits) for organizing resistance to automation in education today.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Paywalled, but reach out for a PDF!
Screenshot of the first page of an article titled "Generative AI and the (Re)turn to Luddism" published in the journal Learning, Media, and Technology.
January 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM