Postdigital Learner Agency
Navigating Hybrid and Algorithmically Mediated Education
Edited by Jillianne Code
Postdigital Science and Education Series (Springer Nature)
For Authors
This page provides guidance for authors contributing to Postdigital Learner Agency. It outlines the review process, key dates, and next steps.
Thank you for your work on this volume. Your chapter supports a shared effort to understand learner agency in hybrid, relational, and AI mediated environments.
Chapter Status and Review Process
All full chapters have now been submitted.
Each chapter will receive two developmental reviews. These reviews focus on clarity, alignment with the volume, and strength of argument.
Review Deadline: January 10, 2026
Feedback to Authors: January 13–20, 2026
Revised Chapters Due: March 3, 2026
Editorial Pass: March 10–24, 2026
Manuscript Submission to Springer: April 2026
Next Steps for Authors
Revision instructions will be sent to authors with reviewer feedback on January 13–20, 2026. Authors should wait for this guidance before revising their chapter. You will receive:
- your reviewer comments
- a summary note from the editor
- full revision instructions
- file naming directions
- the required title page template
- formatting requirements
- the upload link for revisions
Please wait for these instructions before revising your chapter.
Revisions should begin only after you receive guidance in January.
Proposed Table of Contents
Postdigital Learner Agency: Navigating Hybrid and Algorithmically Mediated Education
Edited by Jillianne Code
This table of contents shows the structure of the volume and the placement of each chapter. Authors can use this to see how their work aligns with other chapters in the book.
Part I. Foundations and Tensions of Postdigital Learner Agency
1. Alexander Thomas
The Enactment of Agency and the Extension of Political Ethicality within a PLĀ Framework
2. Rachel Moylan
The Paradox of Postdigital Learner Agency: Rethinking Responsibility Through Playful Profanation
3. Jeremy Delamarter
Pre-Service Teacher Development and the Limits of Postdigital Agency
Part II. Relational, Spatial, and Sociomaterial Conditions
4. Monica Storss
Postdigital Relationality: Entanglement, Agency, and Critical Becoming
5. Jarkko Pyysiäinen
Affordances for Agency and Enskilment in Postdigital Learning Environments
6. Lucila Carvalho, Vicki Leibowitz, and Cristina Garduño Freeman
Five Principles, One Postdigital Future: AI, Agency and Relationality in the Architecture Classroom
Part III. AI, Hybrid Intelligence, and Postdigital Selfhood
7. Roger Azevedo
Generative Self Regulation: Redefining Human Agency in AI Enhanced Educational Contexts
8. Aras Bozkurt
Postdigital Learners and Artificial Intelligence: Forging Agency in an Entangled World Through Critical AI Literacy and Human AI Interaction
9. Guy Bate
Sustaining a Postdigital Self: A Heideggerian Perspective on GenAI and Learner Agency
Part IV. Equity, Digital Capital, and Information Infrastructures
10. Jason Chan, Pang Hao, and Jack Ieong
Bridging Inequities in English Language Education: Post digital Learner Agency and Digital Capital in Rural Chinese Context
11. Sille Julie J. Abildgaard and Karl Weis Fogh
Infrastructures of Knowing: Exploring Information Practices and Agency in Higher Education
Conclusion
12. Jillianne Code
Designing for Agency: Futures, Praxis, and Algorithmic Ethics