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Digital Education and Society

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Chad E. Kee
Morgan State University
2
Inioluwa Deborah Raji
University of California, Berkeley
3
Amandine Catala
Université du Québec à Montréal
4
Amit Prasad
Unknown
5
Jaemarie Solyst
University of Washington
6
Alex Örtegren
Umeå University
7
Carmen Vallis
The University of Sydney
8
Charlene VanLeeuwen
Royal Roads University
9
Renee Desmarchelier
University of Southern Queensland
10
Dorine E. van Norren
Leiden University

Rising Stars Papers

1
AI auditing: The Broken Bus on the Road to AI Accountability
Unknown Journal|2024
84 cit.
2
It’s Time to Bench the Medical Exam Benchmark
NEJM AI|2025
32 cit.
3
Children’s Overtrust and Shifting Perspectives of Generative AI
Proceedings.|2024
27 cit.
4
Towards AI Accountability Infrastructure: Gaps and Opportunities in AI Audit Tooling
Unknown Journal|2025
20 cit.
5
Investigating Youth AI Auditing
Unknown Journal|2025
18 cit.
6
Authentic assessment in higher education: the spectre of lost futures
Teaching in Higher Education|2024
14 cit.
7
Cross-cultural adaptation of educational design patterns at scale
Journal of Work-Applied Management|2024
8 cit.
8
Pathways to professional digital competence to teach for digital citizenship: social science teacher education in flux
Teachers and Teaching|2024
8 cit.
9
Generative AI
ASCILITE Publications|2024
8 cit.
10
RAD: A Framework to Support Youth in Critiquing AI
Unknown Journal|2025
8 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Samantha Viotty
Emerson College
2
Panagiotis Andriotis
University of the West of England
3
Kevin Witzenberger
UNSW Sydney
4
Hejia Wang
China Institute of Veterinary Drug Control
5
Conchúr Mac Lochlainn
Dublin City University
6
P. N. Wilkinson
Bournemouth University
7
Razvan Amironesei
National Institute of Standards and Technology
8
Anne Bruch
Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute
9
Juliane Jarke
University of Graz
10
Irene V. Pasquetto
University of Maryland, College Park

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
AI hyped? A horizon scan of discourse on artificial intelligence in education (AIED) and development
Learning Media and Technology|2022
212 cit.
2
Designing Postdigital Futures: Which Designs? Whose Futures?
Postdigital Science and Education|2023
90 cit.
3
Amazon and the New Global Connective Architectures of Education Governance
Harvard Educational Review|2022
62 cit.
4
Social Debunking of Misinformation on WhatsApp: The Case for Strong and In-group Ties
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction|2022
55 cit.
5
Educational technologies as matters of care
Learning Media and Technology|2022
33 cit.
6
Disinformation as Infrastructure: Making and Maintaining the QAnon Conspiracy on Italian Digital Media
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction|2022
27 cit.
7
Responding to sociotechnical controversies in education: a modest proposal toward technical democracy
Learning Media and Technology|2022
21 cit.
8
Considering the role of material gerontology in reimagining technology design for ageing populations
International Journal of Ageing and Later Life|2022
19 cit.
9
Care-ful data studies: or, what do we see, when we look at datafied societies through the lens of care?
Information Communication & Society|2024
19 cit.
10
Who cares about data? Data care arrangements in everyday organisational practice
Information Communication & Society|2024
17 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Marguerite Koole
University of Saskatchewan
2
Sarah Hayes
Bath Spa University
3
John Potter
Massey University
4
Petar Jandrić
University of Applied Health Sciences
5
William Isaac
Google DeepMind (United Kingdom)
6
Karl Maton
The University of Sydney
7
Luca Botturi
Università della Svizzera italiana
8
Neil Selwyn
Lund University
9
Marek Tesař
The University of Melbourne
10
Laura Czerniewicz
University of Cape Town

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Online University Teaching During and After the Covid-19 Crisis: Refocusing Teacher Presence and Learning Activity
Postdigital Science and Education|2020
2.1k cit.
2
Reconsidering Political and Popular Understandings of the Digital Divide
New Media & Society|2004
1.4k cit.
3
Pandemic politics, pedagogies and practices: digital technologies and distance education during the coronavirus emergency
Learning Media and Technology|2020
1k cit.
4
Postdigital science and education
Educational Philosophy and Theory|2018
850 cit.
5
Faceworking: exploring students' education‐related use of <i>Facebook</i>
Learning Media and Technology|2009
828 cit.
6
Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence
Philosophy & Technology|2020
730 cit.
7
The digital native – myth and reality
Aslib Proceedings|2009
725 cit.
8
Beyond the ‘digital natives’ debate: Towards a more nuanced understanding of students' technology experiences
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning|2010
668 cit.
9
Older adults' use of information and communications technology in everyday life
Ageing and Society|2003
619 cit.
10
The use of computer technology in university teaching and learning: a critical perspective
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning|2007
599 cit.

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