Digital Curation/Digital Production: Storying the Digital Learner

Abstract

In this chapter we invoke and develop critically the notion of curation in digital media. We will describe how a theory of curation is operationalised and turns into social action inside and outside places of learning whilst acknowledging that this clearly is the subject of much debate, in which very similar questions are being asked using different analytical frames drawn from sociocultural theory, psychology, literacy studies and more. In sociocultural theory, for example, the curatorial impulse around personal possessions is explored as a specific analogue for relations with people (as in Daniel Miller’s work). From cultural psychology, in contrast, building on the work of Jerome Bruner, the relation to self-storying is seen as a way of constructing the self. These and other perspectives on curation are explored using concrete examples and related back to digital practices.