This book presents a wide-ranging and critical exploration of a topic that lies at the heart of
contemporary education. The use of digital technology is now a key feature of schools and
schooling around the world. Yet despite its prominence, technology use continues to be an
area of education that rarely receives sustained critical attention and thought, especially
from those people who are most involved and affected by it. Technology tends to be
something that many teachers, learners, parents, policy-makers and even academics …

It might seem curious that this book, which undertakes a wide-ranging exploration of school
technology use in late-modernity, opens with an assertion that the arguments expounded
within it are not intended to be obtrusive, negative, or ''antitechnology''. This hints at the
academic tensions between ''the educational technology community''and ''technologically
detached''mainstream social-cultural commentators, whilst foreshadowing the book's
underlying agenda. Throughout this work, Neil Selwyn argues that ''a critical analysis is a …