Between the blabbering noise of individuals or the silent dialogue of many: a collective response to 'Postdigital Science and Education' (Jandrić et al. 2018)

This article is a multi-authored response to an editorial ‵Postdigital Science and Education′ published in 2018 by Petar Jandrić, Jeremy Knox, Tina Besley, Thomas Ryberg, Juha Suoranta and Sarah Hayes in Educational Philosophy and Theory as a mission statement for the journal Postdigital Science and Education. Nineteen authors were invited to produce their sections, followed by two author-reviewers who examined the article as a whole. Authors’ responses signal the sense of urgency for developing the concept of the postdigital and caution about attempts at simplifying complex relationships between human beings and technology. Whilst the digital indeed seems to become invisible, we simultaneously need to beware of its apparent absence and to avoid over-emphasizing its effects. In this attempt, authors offer a wide range of signposts for future research such as ‘the critical postdigital’ and ‘postdigital reflexivity’; they also warn about the group’s own shortcomings such as the lack of ‘real’ sense of collectivity. They emphasize that postdigital education must remain a common good, discuss its various negative aspects such as smartphone addiction and nomophobia, and exhibit some positive examples of postdigital educational praxis. They discuss various aspects of postdigital identities and point towards the need for a postdigital identity theory. With these varied and nuanced responses, the article opens a wide spectrum of opportunity for the development of postdigital approaches to science and education for the future

Percent change in volume from expected levels based on prepandemic trends by selected health services across 18 countries, March 2020–February 2021.

Note: The horizontal line at 0% represents the expected volume of services based on prepandemic trends. The gray lines plot country-specific changes in service utilization. The monthly country-specific results are presented in Table A in S1 Text. The red line is a multicountry unweighted moving average of the change in utilization plotted by a locally estimated scatterplot smoothing (LOESS) regression. Details on indicator reporting for each country can be found in Table L in S1 Text. ANC1 refers to First Antenatal Care Visit. ANC4 refers to the Fourth Antenatal Care Visit. BCG refers to bacillus Calmette–Guérin vaccination. OPD refers to Outpatient visits. Penta3 refers to the Third dose of Pentavalent vaccine. PNC1 refers to First Postnatal Care Visit.</p

Expected and additional child, neonatal, and maternal deaths, March 2020 to June 2021.

Expected and additional child, neonatal, and maternal deaths, March 2020 to June 2021.</p