Mark Carrigan In recent years, the term ‘platform’ has become ubiquitous, taken up by both business gurus and critical social scientists [...]
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VIEWPOINT: Assembling the super-fast, ultra-smart, semi-automatic university
Ben Williamson Universities have become major centres of data collection, calculation and consumption. Some commentators envision a ‘smart university’ where data [...]
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ON THE FRONTLINE: Higher Education, Platforms and the Market of Symbolic Goods – A Case for Platform Academic Capitalism in Brazil
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 [...]
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Platform 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 [...]
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Thinking 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 [...]
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Power 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 [...]
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Gig Science Marches Onward
Seppo Poutanen and Anne Kovalainen Universities have transformed themselves into efficient trading houses dealing in knowledge produced by academics and creating [...]
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How MOOCs became platforms
Richard Terry Over the last few years, public scrutiny and concern over the social impact of digital platforms has increased, even [...]
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Can 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 [...]
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