Journal of Class & Culture - Volume 2, Issue 1, 2023

This article considers the ways in which a far-from-neutral ecology of educational technology serves to further marginalize minoritarian knowledges. A persuasive push towards increased technology use is considered as a result of capitalist EdTech promotion of commodities. This challenges concepts of technology as an emancipating presence that acts neutrally in concerns over social justice. The article includes discussion around the ways in which knowledge itself is framed by the technologies that are used to share it. The culmination of the article is the presenting of alternatives that allow technology to be conceptualized as a means of emancipating knowledges and encouraging diversity of who creates knowledge and how this is shared and developed using technology.

The purpose of this study was to explore the early lived experiences that some Mexican American students utilize to further their education in a community college in Oregon, United States. The research questions for the study were ‘What experiences (personal, educational, familial, etc.) influenced your decision to pursue a college education?’ and ‘How has community college served as a tool for empowerment to further your education?’ Through testimonio we explored the lived experiences of Mexican descent students. Each participant was interviewed; all data were recorded, then transcribed for themes. The findings that overlapped across student testimonios were early lived struggles, memories of K-12 and community college empowerment which highlighted the importance for students in community college to revisit their early socialization. The authors advise that in furthering the community college pathway, self-reflexive methodologies be incorporated that cultivate educational resilience and transformational resistance in the transfer of Mexican descent students onto four-year universities.

Riders or delivery messengers are currently a symbol of job insecurity. However, companies in the so-called gig or platform economy continue to present themselves as modern ones, technologically adapted to the new scheme that defines the twenty-first century. The article analyses, from the perspective of framing and journalistic routines, the media coverage (press) of the main delivery companies in Spain: Glovo and Deliveroo. Using a longitudinal sample of 764 pieces of news drawn from the six most important Spanish newspapers from January 2015 to December 2021, we explore the conditions under which this information is prepared and how this determines the frames of their narrative. This article exposes the principal media frames used in the news treatment of the rider phenomena and analyses its causes, focusing on structural elements in the journalistic routines from a materialist perspective. In short, this article focuses on an analysis of the collision of frames as a continuation of the capital/labour struggle in the media sphere.

In this short article, housing campaigner David Utley-Williams looks at the class dynamics that underpin estate demolition. Drawing on his own personal experience and looking at the broader sociopolitical context, he examines how estate demolition is a policy failure that inflicts huge damage on London’s working-class communities.