Posthumanism and the Massive Open Online Course: Contaminating the Subject of Global Education by Jeremy Knox

Author:Jeremy Knox [Knox, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781317377955
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2016-01-28T16:00:00+00:00

The chosen explanations for inactivity and silence here are highly revealing. The first evokes the unreasonable, perhaps the absurd, while the second legitimises lurking by suggesting that it is a temporary form of admittance into the more formal routines of community participation, rather than a valid form of engagement itself. This re-establishes the routine of immunisation, which ‘maintains the health of the community through a critical subtraction of an excess’ (Lewis and Kahn 2010, p.47). This subtraction takes the form of excising silence by incentivising lurkers towards the established practices of active engagement. Once again silence is recast as non-participation; a negative relation that presumes the need to overcome its undesirability and conform to the natural state of cohesive community participation. Thus, while seeming to accommodate lurking and embrace an unrestricted and liberal approach to education, this stance tends to normalise difference and retain a core, authoritative mode of conduct. It is in this way that the debates about active participation and lurking reveal themselves to be consistent rather than opposed; consistent in the requirement for lurking as the banned conduct by which community is explained. As Lewis and Kahn suggest:

To give into the monstrous is nothing less than a betrayal of the community and yet, existence without the monster would be tantamount to a disintegration of the boundaries that define community in the first place.

(2010, p.7)

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