Ethnography of corporeality: A carnal move in educational technology research

• Published in: British journal of educational technology Vol. 47; no. 6; pp. 1125 - 1134
• Main Author: Enriquez-Gibson, Judith
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Coventry Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.11.2016; Wiley-Blackwell
• Subjects: Affordances; Complement; Computer Interfaces; Digital; Digital literacy; Education; Educational Research; Educational Technology; Electronic Learning; Ethnography; Human Body; Inclusion; Inclusions; Interaction; Learning; Literacy; Man Machine Systems; Orientation; Participation; Technology Uses in Education; Technology utilization
• ISSN: 0007-1013; 1467-8535
• DOI: 10.1111/bjet.12291

Despite the increasing focus on non‐dualistic and materialist approaches in education technology studies, the materiality of the body has not been adequately examined. Because of the heavy orientation towards affordance, interaction, participation, inclusion and access at the interface or between various spatial and liminal settings, the subject's body has been addressed and analysed as a non‐corporeal construct, primarily at an , theoretical or textual level. This paper intends to complement existing research by proposing a carnal move that would enact an ethnography of corporeality. It will do so by doing two things: first, by drawing from Don Ihde's human–technology relations to foreground the body in technology use; and secondly, by adapting Marcel Mauss's conceptualisation of body techniques for a carnal methodological move in investigating technology‐enhanced learning and digital literacies.