TY - JOUR
T1 - Surveillance Practices, Risks and Responses in the Post Pandemic University
AU - Beetham, Helen
AU - Collier, Amy
AU - Czerniewicz, Laura
AU - Lamb, Brian
AU - Lin, Yuwei
AU - Ross, Jen
AU - Scott, Anne-Marie
AU - Wilson, Anna
PY - 2022/2/3
Y1 - 2022/2/3
N2 - This paper describes and critiques how surveillance is situated and evolving in higher education settings, with a focus on the surveillance of teaching and learning. It argues that intensifying practices of datafication and monitoring in universities echo those in broader society, and that the Covid-19 global pandemic has both exacerbated these practices and made them more visible. Surveillance brings risks to learning relationships and academic and work practices, as well as reinforcing economic models of extraction and inequalities in education and society. Responses to surveillance practices include resistance, advocacy, education, regulation and investment, and a number of these responses are examined here. Drawing on scholarship and practice the paper provides an in-depth overview of this topic for people in university settings including those in leadership positions, learning technology roles, educators and students. The authors are part of an international network of researchers, educators and university leaders who are working together to develop new approaches to surveillance futures for higher education. Authors are based in Canada, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States, and this paper reflects those specific contexts.
AB - This paper describes and critiques how surveillance is situated and evolving in higher education settings, with a focus on the surveillance of teaching and learning. It argues that intensifying practices of datafication and monitoring in universities echo those in broader society, and that the Covid-19 global pandemic has both exacerbated these practices and made them more visible. Surveillance brings risks to learning relationships and academic and work practices, as well as reinforcing economic models of extraction and inequalities in education and society. Responses to surveillance practices include resistance, advocacy, education, regulation and investment, and a number of these responses are examined here. Drawing on scholarship and practice the paper provides an in-depth overview of this topic for people in university settings including those in leadership positions, learning technology roles, educators and students. The authors are part of an international network of researchers, educators and university leaders who are working together to develop new approaches to surveillance futures for higher education. Authors are based in Canada, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States, and this paper reflects those specific contexts.
KW - Surveillance
KW - Higher Education
KW - privacy
KW - Digital rights
KW - Datafication
KW - equity
KW - digital activism
KW - digital culture
KW - Digital platformisation
UR - https://www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-14-1
M3 - Article
SN - 1836-8301
JO - Digital Culture & Education
JF - Digital Culture & Education
ER -