Critical Studies of EDUCATION & TECHNOLOGY

Neil Selwyn writes about education, technology & society

Latest academic papers

I have been writing journal articles since 1995 – if you are interested in diving into the full list, then this Google Scholar profile lists them in order of popularity/obscurity. Here are a selection of articles from the past couple of years:

Selwyn, N., Ljungqvist, M. and Sonesson, A. (2025).  When the prompting stops: exploring teachers’ work around the educational frailties of generative AI toolsLearning Media and Technology

Selwyn, N., Strengers, Y., Kaviani, F., Cumbo, B., Dahlgren, K. and Wagner, M. (2025). ‘We’re already experts in school, right?’: supporting students’ construction of future school scenariosFutures 166:103541

Selwyn, N., Kaviani, F., Cumbo, B., Strengers, Y., Dahlgren, K. and Wagner, M. (2025). ‘You can’t really learn the future’: student perspectives of futures education in schoolsResearch in Education.

Kaviani, F., Selwyn, N., Strengers, Y., Dahlgren, K., Cumbo, B. and Wagner, M. (2025). Future schools and the energy implications of AI in education: a review of scenarios and method for engaging young people in futures thinkingPolicy Futures in Education

Selwyn, N. (2024). On the limits of Artificial Intelligence in educationNordisk Tidsskrift For Pedagogikk Og Kritikk, 10(1): 3–14

Selwyn, N.  (2024).    Digital degrowth: toward radically sustainable education technology. Learning, Media & Technology  49(2):186-199

Selwyn, N. and Cumbo, B. (2024) ‘We’ve tried to keep the beast on a leash’: the domestication of digital classroom surveillance.  Surveillance and Society 22(2):88-103

Selwyn, N.  (2024).    The modern classroom chair: exploring the ‘coercive design’ of contemporary schooling.  Power and Education, 16(1):63-77

Selwyn, N.  (2024).    Constructive criticism? Working with (rather than against) the AIED back-lashInternational Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education  34:84-91

Selwyn, N., Smith, G., Andrejevic, M., Gu, X. and O’Neill, C. (2024). Facing up to problem gambling: tracing the emergence of facial recognition technology as a means of enforcing voluntary self-exclusionJournal of Gambling Studies, 1-17.

Andrejevic, M., O’Neill, C., Smith, G., Selwyn, N. and Gu, X.  (2024).  Granular biopolitics: Facial recognition, pandemics and the securitization of circulationNew Media and Society.  26(3):1204-1226

Perrotta, C., Selwyn, N. and Ewin, C.  (2024).  AI and the affective labour of understanding: how human writers interact with a language model. New Media & Society  26(3):1585–1609

Lazarus, M., Truong, M., Douglas, P. and  Selwyn, N.  (2024).   Artificial Intelligence and anatomical education:  uncertainties, tensions, and recommendations.  Anatomical Sciences Education   17(2): 249-262

Capraro, V.,  Lentsch, A.,  Acemoglu, D.,  Akgun, S., Akhmedova, A.,  Bilancini, E.,  Bonnefon, J.,  Brañas-Garza, P.,  Butera, L.,  Douglas, K., Everett, J.,  Gigerenzer, G.,  Greenhow, C.,  Hashimoto, D., Holt-Lunstad, J., Jetten, J., Johnson, S., Longoni, C., Lunn, P., Natale, S., Rahwan, I., Selwyn, N., Sing, V., Suri, S., Sutcliffe, J., Tomlinson, J., van der Linden, S., Van Lange, P., Wall, F., Van Bavel, J. and Viale, R. (2024).  The impact of generative artificial intelligence on socioeconomic inequalities and policymaking.  PNAS Nexus