Text som kontext - rum, plats och text som social situation

The ability to express oneself in text has come to be an even more pressuring task due to new media. The use of text in the new media and the school looks slightly different and create different claims on which kind of text activity that are advocated. Language activity and use of text in different spaces and places has become a constituent principle in the western society of today – language and the use of text is seen as the ontological condition for social life. The historical and conventional media notion of public and reception has been replaced by a more complex communication situation due to the digital media. Related to this context and the linguistic turn, three concepts; text action, text conversation and the pedagogy of place are developed and exemplified by a national net community. The theoretical contribution makes it possible to understand and approach the use of text and the complexity this use in different spaces and places articulates. The national net community is discussed in relation to the school exemplifying two different public spaces where new media is put forward illustrating a social situation constituted of text – young people’s use of text practically becomes context. How can we understand and approach this new educational situation? ; Utbildning och lärande. Tidskrift