Theoretical Approximations in Learning with Digital Technologies and the Fractalization of Meaning
Constantine Andoniou
Associate Professor of Education Chair, Department of Education and Social Sciences CAESS Quality Assurance Committee Chair
Drawing on the theoretical realization and proposal of the multi-dimensionality and ambiguity of the construction of knowledge in digital learning, the paper introduces the epistemological background and the theoretical foundations of the model of ‘infogramic analysis.’ It focuses in explaining the mechanics and dynamics of the fractalization of meaning in the information flow and consequent construction of knowledge. This is done through the introduction of the infogramic analysis foundational topology in the form of theoretical approximations, namely: the ‘infotype,’ the ‘level-states of information,’ ‘virtual implosion,’ and ‘fractal dynamics.’ The analytical model. put forward in the form of conceptual / digital / graphical approximations, is a radical methodological suggestion on how we can improve our understanding about the operation and impact of the system of information in the digital reconstruction of contemporary societies and on the re-realization of human consciousness in ‘postmodernity-and-beyond’ era.