First four books on @amsterdamupress.bsky.social#openaccessjonathangray.org/2024/07/25/a...
critical engagements with digital data, methods and infrastructures
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Technocritique emerging from the field of education often fails (future) educators by only providing them with ‘critical perspectives’, but no clear insight into strategies or tactics of resistance an...
New paper in Geoforum with Sabine Dörry and Ben Derudder: "Preserving the obligatory passage point: SWIFT and the partial platformisation of global payments" Full access until 30/05/2024, if you're into this sort of thing: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ivNO_OL2A...
Call for applications: three-day workshop in Cape Town on “How to write about platformisation from Africa” #ICT4D#DigitalPlatformswww.africancentreforcities.net/how-to-write...
Fecher, B., Kunz, R., Sokolovska, N., & Wrzesinski, M. (2024). Platformisation of Science: Conceptual Foundations and Critical Perspectives for the Science System. LIBER Quarterly: The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries, 34(1), 1–18. doi.org/10.53377/lq....
Oh no, not at all. We are in the same boat as students and enduring the platformisation of our lives, or rather potential lives not lived. There are also more platforms for staff than for students to deal with in the background that you won't necessarily have to deal with .. it's a maze.
Holmes and Toumi also referred to this in their 2022 article on AI in Ed ie, that much research is conducted by commercial vendors with small numbers of learners. With the platformisation of AI via LLMs vendors potentially have access now to the behavioural data of hundreds of millions of learners