Miriam McSweeney Editor

Dr. Alex Levant is a lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada. He specializes in critical media theory and emerging/future technologies. He is co-editor (with Vesa Oittinen) of Dialectics of the Ideal (Brill, 2014). His papers have been published by, among other outlets, Historical Materialism, Stasis, Critique, Educational Review, and Mind, Culture and Activity. Dr Kyoko Murakami is a lecturer in psychology at the Department of Psychology, the University of Westminster, London and an honorary research fellow at the University of Bath. UK. Previously, she held an associate professorship in psychology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research topics include social remembering, reconciliation, learning in collaboration, dialogism and ageing. She is an executive committee member of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology and a member of the editorial board of Culture & Psychology. Her previous books include Discursive Psychology of Remembering and Reconciliation (Nova, 2012) and Dialogic Pedagogy (Multilingual Matters, 2016). Her papers have been published by Culture & Psychology, Memory Studies and Learning, Culture and Social Interaction among other journals. Email: [email protected] Dr. Miriam McSweeney is a lecturer in the Business School at the Galway Campus of the Atlantic Technological University in Ireland. She has also worked as a software engineer in the Telecommunications Industry. Her research focuses on the social aspects of learning. She is particularly interested in the social and psychological impacts of learning environments in tertiary education. She has investigated how management might be supported to understand the use of learning technologies by academic staff.