Book description
How surveillance perpetuates long-standing injustices woven into the fabric of higher education.
Higher education increasingly relies on digital surveillance in the United States. Administrators, consulting firms, and education technology vendors are celebrating digital tools as a means of ushering in the age of "smart universities." By digitally monitoring and managingā¦
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Why read it?
1 author picked Smart University as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Reading Smart University is somewhat scary as Weinbergās arguments are based on extensive historical and current evidence. She warns about many of the day-to-day things we take for granted -- our phones, our computer programs, our use of AI in our "smart" homes, and the tools we as faculty use to teach. She urges us to ask important questions like: Are we trading our privacy for convenience? What are the consequences of colleges and universitiesā access to student data? And what are colleges and universities doing to protect studentsā interests? I was skeptical about this book initially as it's notā¦
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