The University and the Algorithmic Gaze / Lesley Gourlay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gourlay, Lesley, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Algorithms.

Artificial intelligence--Educational applications.

Artificial intelligence.

Blended learning.

Compliance auditing.

Great Britain--Education, higher.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

This open access book takes an innovative and critical look at the ways in which digital data and algorithms are changing the face of higher education in multiple ways. It examines their impact at both the macro scale of universities and systems worldwide, but also at the more subtle level of effects on academics and students. In doing so, it focuses on the day-to-day life of the university, examining how the digital is changing the way that we communicate, learn, and create new knowledge. As well as exploring the role of 'big data' and learning analytics, the book also focuses on areas of academic life not normally considered to be part of datafication, such as the physical structures of surveillance on campus and the ways in which systems of 'quality' in research can morph into regimes of surveillance and algorithmic discipline. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, the volume interweaves insights from Surveillance Studies, Science and Technology Studies and Postphenomenology. . Its wide-ranging analysis generates fresh, critical new insights into the nature of communication, semiosis, textual practices, subjectivities and knowledge practices at this dynamic and fast-moving juncture in the history and development of higher education worldwide. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by University College London, UK.

Contents:

List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements 1. Dreams of Transcendence 2. The Algorithmic Gaze 3. Postphenomenology of Practice 4. The Audit Gaze 5. The Performative Gaze 6. Fugitive Practices References Index

Notes:

Creative Commons. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en

ISBN:

9781350281608

1350281603

OCLC:

1463677565