As another new book explains, this conversation also needs to include student data. Lindsay Venberg Smart University: Student Monitoring in Digital Age This explains how the motivations and interests of Big Tech are changing higher education in ways that are rapidly harmful to student privacy and, of course, overall education.

By “Smart University”, Venberg means increasing number of public universities across the country, which are being restructured around the “production and occupation of digital data”. The same in the so -called vision and application “Smart city“These large-detta-filled institutions are rapidly turning to technologies that can track students’ movements around the campus, monitor how much time they spend on learning management systems, flagged people who need special courses and” nude “for” Kumhar “especially for” Kumhar “. Venberg writes, Technology universities in their campuses will place a place to keep pace with technological innovation.

Reader of Smart university Probably will recognize an familiar argument in playing here. Many of these are an increasing passion with efficiency, productivity and convenience to run educational tracking and data-acted initiative. The result is a type of silicon valley optimization mentality, but applies to higher education on the scale. Get students inside and outside the university as soon as possible, reduce attention, track performance, and all this under the guise of modernization of the campus and increase privatization.

Under this emerging system, students are seen as self-powerful individuals and more “. As consumers, future workers are rapidly made employable for smart workplaces, the source of user-related materials for marketing and outreach, and resources are to be mined to create campuses,” Wanberg writes.

In between Smart university A relatively straightforward question seems to be: what is for an education? Although Venberg does not provide a direct answer, she shows how a university (or society) decides to answer that question that it can have a profound impact on how it treats its students and teachers. Indeed, since the goal of education is able to produce a well -scoring humans, who is able to seriously and more to think “to be able to manage data subjects and who can fill the roles in the digital economy,” It’s no wonder that we are rapidly turning to dumb thoughts of smart universities so that we are fast to work so that we can work.

If you like books Means of control And Smart university An excellent work to do to what extent our privacy has been compromised, compromised, and armed (which they undoubtedly do), they can also start feeling a little estimated in their final chapters. Familiar codas include calls for collective action, dividing or expanding two by the expectation of an expectation already successful pro-priority; Nodes towards a bilateral privacy bill in tasks or other pieces of law that can potentially close some shiny monitoring flaws; And, most often, technical guides that suggest that each of us can, individually, be better secure or otherwise “ownership” of our personal data.

How the guide is understood by these disturbances and the inspiration behind these disturbances. After all, it is natural for readers that they want answers, advice, or at least some suggestions Be able to Be separate – especially after reading about the increasing list of decline under monitoring capitalism. But it is not a doubt to surprise if they are really advocating the fight for privacy the way its advocates really want.