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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Call for Contributions to Collective Article - English Education and The Postdigital Turn If you are interested in making a 600-word contribution, please read the full 'call' (see below) and get in touch. Responses due 16 Dec, 2026 lnkd.in/gYdmnQJt

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Out now in all good book stores. Or just email me for a copy.

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Pleased to share a new OA paper in Reading Research Quarterly challenging simplistic narratives about digital reading, whether tech-optimist or tech-alarmist. The real story? Digital reading isn't determined by technology alone. ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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<em>Reading Research Quarterly</em> | ILA Literacy Journal | Wiley Online Library

This image presents a graphical abstract summarizing research on digital reading through a postdigital lens. It contrasts techno-optimist and techno-alarmist narratives about technology, identifying ...

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Excited to share our new OA article on how neoliberal policies are reshaping English teaching across the Asia Pacific. As New Zealand intensifies this shift, we examine the effects on curricula and educators—and where autonomy persists. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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English in a Neoliberal Age: (Re)shaping Subjectivities - New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies

New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies - The system of norms that constitutes neoliberal imaginaries has permeated almost every aspect of everyday life. While New Zealand has long embraced...

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

New OA pub. What if there were ways of thinking and working with digital games in schools that moved beyond the rhetoric of boosters and alarmists? This article argues for a digital games/learning relationship characterised by critical imagined digital futures. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Imagining critical digital game futures: a postdigital perspective

Digital games have become ubiquitous educational technologies, deployed across a range of contexts for the purposes of supporting diverse teaching and learning goals. This deployment has been under...

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Just me trying to figure out whether ideas from the postdigital turn might be useful for helping English education escape the clutches of neoliberalism. Keen to hear what people think. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Last chance to join our Karen Barad "Meeting the Universe Halfway" reading group. See attached flyer for info. Meeting times will be Australian Eastern Standard Time friendly.

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

HOUSE Coloured card, glue. 2025

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Senior researchers, what are you doing tomorrow? Helping DECRA applicants navigate their referee reports, that's what you're doing tomorrow. Book in some quality time with them now. Normally reports drop around ~11am AEST.

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Be honest - you were on the loo when you typed this?

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

TACO Coloured cloth on cardboard. 2025

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Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

On Friday, May 30th...Clayton Childress, Simone Murray, Michelle Smith, @alexbacalja.bsky.social, @benlibman.bsky.social, and me on "The Curricular and the Extra-Curricular"...

Friday, May 30th, 2025

Clayton Childress (UBC). How Shared is Common Culture? A View from the Middle School Library

Simone Murray (Monash), Michelle J. Smith (Monash) and Alex Bacalja (U.Melb), Where Is the Digital in High-school English?

Alexander Manshel (McGill), CliffsNotes, SparkNotes, and Shmoop: A New History of Literary Criticism

Ben Libman (Stanford), Grove Press and the Extramural Teach-In

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

What does it mean for an English curriculum to be predigital, digital or postdigital? This new analysis of the New Zealand's latest draft national English curriculum suggests are have a long way to go to adequately prepare young people for a postdigital age. Link to the article in the comments.

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Thank you to the the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English and ACMI for the opportunity. Link to the full slide deck in the comments.

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Little Miss E, Aussie. Born 2023 A BUTTERFLY 2025 Paper. Acrylics.

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Experiencing failure in academia has prepared me well for potty training.

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Folks attending AERA '25 and interested in critical approaches to digital technologies, get along to this fantastic pre-conf event.

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Where are all the Byung-Chul Han fans in Education? Kinda surprising given how popular Foucault is to y'all.

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Abstracts due in 3 weeks. Please get in touch if you have any questions.

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

You know we've reached peak neoliberal University when there are subjects that start on January 2nd.

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Surely it's reasonable to pay almost $300 for a one-day conference pass just to see Gert Biesta present. How could anybody not? 2025.icsei.net/keynote-pres...

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Keynote Presenter: Gert Biesta – ICSEI 2025

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

A new Call for Chapters for those working at the intersection of digital games, gaming and the postdigital. 300word abstract due 15 Feb, 2025. Get in touch if you have questions. @bradrobinson.bsky.social @gdishon.bsky.social

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Call_for_Chapters Postdigital Gaming.pdf

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The irony of starting a new paper today on Neoliberalism and School English while the media provides ranked lists of standardised literacy tests.

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Edith calls this abstract-expressionist piece 'Blue/Yellow'. Characterised by bold colours, expressive brushstrokes, and a focus on emotion. Starting bid is $1.2m over on Sothebys.

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Farewell beautiful New Zealand. May your 'fush en chups' spread over all the lands. #NZARE

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Maybe we can get Kiwi and Aussie English teachers/academics to collaborate by attending each other's conferences which take place *checks notes* on the exact same dates in 2025.

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Watching NCTE colleagues posting about upcoming sessions...

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

There is time to make submissions, even if they are short ones.

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I am just going to assume you all came here to appreciate the artistic genius of my 21month old.

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Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

A new platform requires a new masterpiece from little miss 21month old. I call this one 'Scary Storm Trooper'.

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Registration is now open for DiGRA Australia's 2025 National Conference, which will be held at University of South Australia on 5-7 February (and online). This is the first DiGRA Australia conference held off the east coast!! events.humanitix.com/digraaustral...

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DiGRAAustralia 2025 National Conference

Get tickets on Humanitix - DiGRAAustralia 2025 National Conference . Hawke Building, Hawke Building, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia. Wednesday 5th February 2025. Find event information.

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