The Digital Academic by Deborah Lupton


The Digital Academic
Title : The Digital Academic
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ISBN : 1138202584
ISBN-10 : 9781138202580
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 188
Publication : Published August 8, 2017

Academic work, like many other professional occupations, has increasingly become digitised. This book brings together leading scholars who examine the impacts, possibilities, politics and drawbacks of working in the contemporary university, using digital technologies. Contributors take a critical perspective in identifying the implications of digitisation for the future of higher education, academic publishing protocols and platforms and academic employment conditions, the ways in which academics engage in their everyday work and as public scholars and relationships with students and other academics. The book includes accounts of using digital media and technologies as part of academic practice across teaching, research administration and scholarship endeavours, as well as theoretical perspectives. The contributors span the spectrum of early to established career academics and are based in education, research administration, sociology, digital humanities, media and communication.

The Digital Academic Reviews

  • Tara Brabazon

    This is a solid and interesting book. Obviously the attention to MOOCs dates the arguments. Also, online learning discussions before COVID-19 do look dated now. The greatest challenge of this book is theoretical. Foucault is present, as is Bourdieu. Together they drag the arguments to a particular mode of thinking that is also dated. Not using Virilio, and not activating a theory of speed for the 'digital academic' was a loss.

    But I enjoyed reading this edited collection. The chapters are uneven, and the book does lack an overall project. But there are some strong ideas that enable future discussions.

  • Laura

    This edited collection gives a nice snapshot into the lives of the current faculty, scholar and academic. With increased pressures to perform digitally, we are seeing higher education professionals engage in networked practice and connected scholarship in new ways for their teaching, research and service. This is an interesting collection of chapters representing some voices of those academics who have studied and experienced what it means to be digital.