Interrogating digital technology : a critical analysis of the Council of Europe’s digital citizenship education discourse

Banjac, Marinko (avtor)

The pervasiveness of the ‘digital imperative’ has heightened the importance of digital citizenship education, with the Council of Europe being a significant proponent. Using a Foucauldian-inspired critical discourse studies analytical approach, this study analyses selected Council of Europe publications addressed to parents, trainers and teachers. Neither the digital nor digital technology is explicitly defined in any of them, and this absence is itself productive. Left undefined, the digital and digital technology acquire determinate form through recurrent grammatical, figurative and classificatory operations, appearing inevitable and self-evident while users are positioned as those who must adapt. We describe this configuration as the productive silence surrounding the digital. The paper further shows that the political and economic dimensions of digital technology are not absent from this discourse. When they come into view, they are described in some detail, yet their significance is promptly redirected into the register of individual competence and conduct, a discursive manoeuvre we describe as concession and recuperation. The broader implication is that digital citizenship education forms subjects within socio-technical arrangements whose political and economic constitution is not made available for critical interrogation and contestation.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: digital citizenship education, Council of Europe, digital technology, critical discourse studies, discourse analysis
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FDV - Fakulteta za družbene vede
• Status publikacije: V tisku
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2026
• Št. strani: 22 str.
• Številčenje: Vol. , no.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-189701
• UDK: 37.016:172
• ISSN pri članku: 1474-9041
• DOI: 10.1177/14749041261492447
• COBISS.SI-ID: 300621571
• Datum objave v RUL: 13.10.2026

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: European educational research journal
• Založnik: Sage
• ISSN: 1474-9041
• COBISS.SI-ID: 7918921

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY-NC 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva-Nekomercialno 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: Licenca Creative Commons, ki prepoveduje komercialno uporabo, vendar uporabniki ne rabijo upravljati materialnih avtorskih pravic na izpeljanih delih z enako licenco.

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: Svet Evrope, državljanska vzgoja, informacijska tehnologija, kritična analiza diskurza

Projekti

• Financer: Drugi - Drug financer ali več financerjev
• Program financ.: Republika Slovenija, Ministrstvo za vzgojo in izobraževanje
• Številka projekta: C3.K12.IE
• Naslov: Strengthening digital citizenship in Slovenian education institutions - The comprehensive transformation of green and digital education
• Akronim: DIGI.DR