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Chapter 6 serves as an epilogue, reflecting on the poetic journey in higher education. It evaluates the impact of poetic approaches, adjusting methodologies, and sustaining momentum. The chapter discusses the future of poetry in higher education and offers final reflections on integrating poetry into teaching and learning.
This book invites us to consider the profound impact that poetry can have in shaping personal and professional development in a higher education setting.
Suitable for educators, learners, and practitioners, it offers a transformative learning approach in using poetry for teaching, assessment, research, and reflection. The book includes diverse examples, case studies, and practical exercises, demonstrating poetry's application in personal and professional development in a higher education setting.
Each chapter guides readers through these processes, empowering them to integrate poetry into their own teaching and learning practices in a way that is creative, inclusive, and impactful.
Chapter 3 presents poetry as a tool for authentic assessment in higher education. It explores designing poetry assessments, providing feedback, and addressing challenges and barriers in this context. The chapter emphasises the value of poetry in enhancing reflective practices and emotional intelligence among students, supporting a more comprehensive understanding of subject matter.
Chapter 5 focuses on the role of poetry in reflective learning. It discusses how poetic reflection can shift perspectives, promote empathy and support inter- and intrapersonal development. The chapter includes case studies and exercises for planning reflective activities, promoting poetic reflection among colleagues.
Chapter 4 explores the potential of poetry in higher education research. It discusses methods and techniques for using poetry in academic research, addressing challenges, and finding solutions. The chapter includes case studies and practical exercises demonstrating poetry’s application in practice, emphasising its role in enhancing research methodologies and outcomes.
Chapter 1 introduces the transformative potential of poetry within higher education, exploring its benefits across various disciplines. It discusses overcoming challenges in integrating poetry, supported by practical strategies and diverse case studies. This chapter sets the stage for understanding how poetry can enrich teaching and learning experiences, advocating for a holistic, emotionally intelligent approach to higher education.
Chapter 2 explores the practical applications of poetry in teaching and learning environments. It explores poetry’s role in enhancing critical thinking, creativity, and engagement in the classroom. The chapter offers strategies for facilitating poetry sessions, addressing challenges, and includes case studies demonstrating poetry’s integration across different disciplines. The focus is on timing, authenticity, transformative learning, and the concept of ‘good enough’ poetry in teaching.
The book addresses new challenges to the formation of publics in datafied democracies. It proposes a fresh, complex and nuanced approach to understand ‘datapublics’, by considering datafication and public formation in the context of audience, journalism and infrastructure studies.
The tightly woven chapters shed new light on how platforms, algorithms and their data infrastructure are interwoven with journalistic values, discourses and practices, opening up new conditions for publics to display agency, mobilize and achieve legitimacy. It does so across empirical sites such as anti-COVID-19 protest movements, newsrooms in media organizations, comment sections, Facebook groups and data science departments inside media organizations. Building on rich empirical analysis it shows how publics are constructed and negotiated in the intersection of audience agency, digital infrastructures and media cultivation. It conceptualizes publicness as modalities, emphasizing stratification, legitimization, visibility, attention and recognition, and illustrates how datafication as a value system and discourse has an impact on those modalities.
Metadata tags are key to visibility in today’s datafied world as they organize news articles through meta-information that allows news to be recognized by algorithms and disseminated across the web. For the news media, this means that news must be classified according to predefined categories. This chapter examines metatags of 260 European news websites and determines the extent to which they apply metatags that allow webpages to be featured in Google search results. Furthermore, the chapter examines how media organizations are compliant with the metadata library of Schema.org, which is organized by, among others, Yandex, Google and the World Wide Web Consortium. While a majority of media are compliant with Google and Schema.org libraries, only a few large organizations utilize these to the full extent. Finally, the chapter discusses the impact for mediated public formation in the context of access to information via the news delivered through search engines.
This concluding chapter takes stock of the contributions made by this volume, in which we developed the concept of datapublics to understand the transformations that have affected the fields of journalism and media. We suggest seeing the construction of publics as hybrid – not directly connected to any specific media space or enabled by any specific technology – as a struggle between different normative ideals embodied in publics, and as a process involving different modalities of publicness and datafication. Publicness (attention, visibility, legitimacy, hierarchization and valorization) and datafication (as a process, a discourse and a value-system) become physical, virtual and imagined spaces in which struggles for the construction of datapublics take place, struggles that affect not only how datapublics come into being in datafied societies, but with all actors involved in their formation.
