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spir-12154	Cooper, Zane; Bridges, Lauren E.; Ticona, Julia	CONSTRUCTING THE DIGITAL SKILLS CRISIS: A CRITICAL CONCEPTUAL HISTORY OF “SKILL”	2021.0	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1366	81	43	Literature Review Taking up Sara Ahmed’s (2019) method of following words around, this paper follows skill––as a word, concept, and action––through its deep, yet critically sparse, intellectual history, to better understand how the idea of digital skills has been politically operationalized. Our findings show, although variations exist between democratic and republican framing––where one treats digital skills as democratizing and the other as a way to ensure national strength––there is a consistent deficit framework that individualizes a lack of appropriate skills which can only be addressed through training in new technologies.	cache/spir-12154.pdf	txt/spir-12154.txt