Journalist, citizen and learner? A consideration of context in learning mobile journalism through mobile learning

This paper considers some generic key factors in undergraduate students’ mobile learning experience in relation to the teaching and learning of mobile/smartphone journalism. The paper will raise issues related to boundaries of learning, trend (iii) of the Ideas for Mobile Learning Symposium, through a consideration of generic contextual factors influencing the mobile learning situation and the tension arising of mutually contradictory aspects. It raises questions about how potentially contradictory fields of practice (Bourdieu, 1992) influence the specific learner generated learning context. The paper highlights some concerns about risk in the mobile learning context resulting from this dynamic. This paper represents a research in progress report.