The Digital Academic: Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

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Deborah Lupton Inger Mewburn

The Digital Academic

Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

Deborah Lupton, Inger Mewburn, Pat Thomson (University of Nottingham, UK)

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Routledge
08 August 2017

Higher & further education, tertiary education; Educational equipment & technology, computer-aided learning (CAL)

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.

Edited by: Deborah Lupton, Inger Mewburn, Pat Thomson (University of Nottingham, UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9781138202573
ISBN 10: 1138202576
Pages: 172
Publication Date: 08 August 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Deborah Lupton is Centenary Research Professor in the News and Media Research Centre, Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra, Australia. She is the author/co-author of 16 books, the latest of which are Digital Sociology (Routledge, 2015), The Quantified Self: A Sociology of Self-Tracking (Polity, 2016) and Digital Health: Critical Perspectives (Routledge, in press), and has also edited three further books. Deborah is the co-leader of the Digital Data and Society Consortium. Her blog is This Sociological Life and she tweets as @DALupton. Inger Mewburn is the Director of Research Training at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, where she is responsible for designing, measuring and evaluating centrally run research training initiatives and doing research on research candidature to improve experience. Inger blogs at www.thesiswhisperer.com. Pat Thomson PSM is Professor of Education, School of Education at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is the author/editor of eighteen books, the most recent being Inspiring School Change: Reforming Education Through the Creative Arts (2017, with Chris Hall, Routledge), Place Based methods for Researching schools (2016, with Chris Hall, Bloomsbury), Educational Leadership and Pierre Bourdieu (2017, Routledge) and Detox Your Writing: Strategies for Doctoral Researchers (with Barbara Kamler, Routledge 2016). She blogs about academic writing and research on patthomson.net and tweets as @ThomsonPat.

Reviews for The Digital Academic: Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

If you care about the future of academic work (... and academic workers) then this is a 'must read' collection of chapters. These are some of the biggest names in the digital social sciences, and it is wonderful to see their ideas and arguments extended well beyond the usual 140 characters! - Neil Selwyn, Monash University The growing use of social media in academia, and the increasing importance of maintaining a digital profile and professional online identity, should be recognised, acknowledged, and discussed. The Digital Academic brings together leading participants in the online academic environment, and we see through their analyses how multifaceted, complex, and beneficial, online experiences, reputation, and identities are within the modern Higher Education context. Melissa Terras, University College London