The Digital Academic: Critical Perspectives On Digital Technologies In Higher Education

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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. Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 CONTENTS......Page 6 List of figures......Page 8 List of contributors......Page 10 Acknowledgements......Page 16 1 The digital academic: identities, contexts and politics......Page 18 2 Towards an academic self? Blogging during the doctorate......Page 37 3 Going from PhD to platform......Page 53 4 Academic persona: the construction of online reputation in the modern academy......Page 64 5 Academic Twitter and academic capital: collapsing orality and literacy in scholarly publics......Page 80 6 Intersections online: academics who tweet......Page 95 7 Sustaining Asian Australian scholarly activism online......Page 108 8 Digital backgrounds, active foregrounds: student and teacher experiences with ‘flipping the classroom’......Page 122 9 A labour of love: a critical examination of the ‘labour icebergs’ of Massive Open Online Courses......Page 139 10 Digital methods and data labs: the redistribution of educational research to education data science......Page 157 11 Interview......Page 173 12 Interview......Page 179 Index......Page 185