Governing Through Digital Infrastructures: Rethinking Education in Platformed Environments
关键词:
digital governance; digital infrastructures; platformed education; institutional transformation; algorithmic mediation; socio-technical systems摘要
The expansion of digital infrastructures has profoundly reshaped the conditions under which education is organized, governed, and experienced. Rather than functioning merely as technical supports, platforms, data systems, and algorithmic architectures increasingly mediate institutional processes, redistribute authority, and redefine the boundaries of educational practice. This paper examines how governance in digital education is reconfigured through infrastructural mediation, with particular attention to the ways in which data flows, platform environments, and embedded decision logics shape both institutional coordination and everyday pedagogical interactions. Building on a governance-oriented analytical framework, the study conceptualizes digital infrastructures not as neutral tools but as active structuring forces that reorganize relations between actors, institutions, and regulatory logics. The paper argues that governance in digital education is increasingly enacted through infrastructural arrangements that simultaneously enable coordination and generate new forms of opacity, asymmetry, and dependency. By situating digital education within broader socio-technical transformations, it highlights the tensions between efficiency and accountability, flexibility and control, as well as innovation and institutional stability. Rather than proposing universally applicable solutions, the paper advances a context-sensitive perspective on governance transformation, emphasizing the need to align infrastructural design with institutional conditions and normative expectations. In doing so, the study contributes to ongoing debates on digital governance by offering a theoretically grounded account of how education is being reconfigured in platformed environments.
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