The Surplus in Seeing: Networked Learning and Data Doubles in Parasitic Pedagogy

Connectivism and networked learning continue to resonate as important approaches for advancing digital education. What is rarely considered is how parasitism and semiology underwrite these approaches and how their actualization privileges interpersonal or human collaborations while undervaluing nonhuman actants such as data doubles. As our information surrogates, data doubles manifest as byproducts of the surveillance and datafication of our personal information. This reconstitution is made poss