Books by Nicola F. Johnson

This book offers critical readings of issues in education and technology and demonstrates how researchers can use critical perspectives from sociology, digital media, cultural studies, and other fields to broaden the "ed-tech" research imagination, open up new topics, ask new questions, develop theory, and articulate an agenda for informed action.

Contests the claim that computers - specifically internet use - are addictive, arguing that use of the internet is a form of everyday leisure engaged in by many people in Western society and one which is reflective of the benefits and employment of microcomputers within society.

Provides early career researchers with emotional and collegial support that is often not available in academe. This title intends to dispel nepotistic notions of superiority that places Professors and such on a pedestal. It clarifies the difficulty in having written the PhD thesis genre and rewriting it to suit the genre of journal articles.