Mario Azevedo and Aliandra Lazzari Barlete In 1999, Brazil’s National Research Council (CNPq) set up the Lattes Platform which aimed [...]
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POLICY & POLITICS: Why do some public agencies attract more media attention than others?
Jan Boon, Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen, & Koen Verhoest This section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal, Policy and [...]
Read morePlatform capitalism and the future of international education
Martin Henry Platform capitalism has emerged from the mist as a spectre on the horizon of late capitalism. There is growing [...]
Read moreThinking Critically and Realistically About the Platform University
Peter Francis and Carly Foster The concept of the ‘Platform University’ is gaining prominence as academics and social commentators writing from [...]
Read morePower postures and landing pages, the long-tail of neoliberalism
Eleonore Dare When academics speak of ‘learning spaces’ and ‘learning platforms’, what kind of spaces are they evoking? When they use [...]
Read moreGig Science Marches Onward
Seppo Poutanen and Anne Kovalainen Universities have transformed themselves into efficient trading houses dealing in knowledge produced by academics and creating [...]
Read moreHow MOOCs became platforms
Richard Terry Over the last few years, public scrutiny and concern over the social impact of digital platforms has increased, even [...]
Read moreCan Universities do better? A people based approach to digital performance management
Pinar Guven-Uslu and Lisa Jack Managers in UK universities increasingly use digitally generated performance management and measurement systems to monitor and [...]
Read moreWhen Open Educational Resources and platform capitalism meet
Nikola Wachter Technological advances have an ever increasing impact on every aspect of the education system, from the provisioning of education [...]
Read moreWork, management and life in the platform university: the comeback of the business model
Marc Jacquinet In their first year of teaching at the University, July 12 was the last day of the second semester [...]
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