[Commlist] New Book: EdTech Inc.: Selling, Automating and Globalizing Higher Education in the Digital Age

EdTech Inc.: Selling, Automating and Globalizing Higher Education in the 
Digital Age



Tanner Mirrlees and Shahid Alvi

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429343940



This book advances a critical political economy approach to EdTech and 
analyses the economic, political and ideological structures and social 
power relations that shape the EdTech industries and drive EdTech's 
development and diffusion. Particular attention is paid to the 
integration of EdTech with some of the most contentious developments of 
our time, including platformization and data-veillance, the automation 
of work and labor, and globalization-platform imperialism. By using a 
political economy of communication approach, this book will be of value 
to anyone interested in the current transformations of capitalism, the 
State, higher education and online learning in the digital age.



Table of Contents

1. For a Political Economy of EdTech

2. Higher Education in a "Digital Age": Capitalism, Neoliberalism and 
the University, Inc.

3. Profiting on Higher Education: Platform Capitalism Is the Classroom

4. Automating Higher Education: Taylorism and the Teaching Machines

5. Globalizing Higher Education: Platform Imperialism

6. Conclusion: A Pedagogy for Technological Citizenship, a Pedagogy for 
the Precariat Working Class



Reviews



"Recent decades have seen a sustained political assault on education, 
stripping it of its wider social purpose and reducing it to a personal 
investment and instrumental training for work. The progressive 
application of digital technologies have played a central role in 
redefining teaching and learning. Based on a very clear political 
economy of communications framework, the authors of this book 
demonstrate in detail how innovations have served the wider neo-liberal 
reorganisation of contemporary capitalism. Anyone concerned with the 
construction of the future needs to read it and respond." -- Graham 
Murdock, Loughborough University and Vice President of the International 
Association of Communication and Media Research (IAMCR)



"This book offers a unique and timely study of the interrelationships 
between digital platform industries and higher education. It breaks new 
ground by providing a critical analysis of the latest 
information-communication technological trends in higher education from 
a political economy approach" -- Marko Ampuja, Tampere University and 
University of Helsinki



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