I had the opportunity to write a chapter for the handbook *The Global Business of Education*, edited by Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, Sieglinde Jornitz, and S. Karin Amos.
“People Farming in Academia” analyzes how the increasing datafication of academia is increasingly modeling it after the platform economy as we know it - with all the accompanying phenomena: vendor lock-in, precarity, ghost work, geopolitical interference, and an increasingly questionable relationship with factual accur…
New paper alert!
"Disabled syntax: Using configurational thinking to capture the building experience of diverse body-minds" in collaboration with Nina Vollenbroker, Jos Boys and Mine Sak-Acur is now available to read:
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10224598/…
Maintaining a project on microsoft/azure github seems as bad as maintaining a profile on X. Reputational damage for maintaining a github repo will hopefully catch up to reality soon.
It's bonkers that we let the free/open source community get so comprehensively captured by closed source, inhumane corporate tech.
If your community on there doesn't have an exit plan, it might be worth applying some pressure !
New paper alert!
"Disabled syntax: Using configurational thinking to capture the building experience of diverse body-minds" in collaboration with Nina Vollenbroker, Jos Boys and Mine Sak-Acur is now available to read:
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10224598/…