TY - JOUR

T1 - L'inadeguatezza del digital academic

AU - Coin, Francesca

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - Academic research has been one of the first areas to be exposed to the digital revolution. The reform that has marked the passage of academicgovernance from the Humboldtian university system to the neoliberal university in managerial and busoness terms, made use of a series ofmechanisms aimed at monitoring and evaluating individual performance on an ongoing basis, tracing every interaction taking place in the academicenvironment and in the outside world. Drawing inspiration from the work of Deborah Lupton, Inger Mewburn and Pat Thomson, The DigitalAcademic: Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education (2017), this paper looks at the digital self of contemporary academics.Using digital platforms such as Academia.edu, Linkedin, Googlescholar, University e-repositories, SlideShare, Content aggregator tools, digitalacademics can increase their daily interactions and the impact of their research. More than being interaction tools, these tools transform the academicsinto digital individuals whose performance is constantly monitored until they find themselves prisoner of a growing "dataveillance" (Lupton,Mewburn and Thomson, 2017). In this context, the question concerns not only the impact of digital technologies on the quality of contemporaryresearch, but also the impact of digital surveillance on the living and working conditions of contemporary academics, at a time where the tensions,conflicts and malaise that inhabit the neoliberal university have become ever more manifest

AB - Academic research has been one of the first areas to be exposed to the digital revolution. The reform that has marked the passage of academicgovernance from the Humboldtian university system to the neoliberal university in managerial and busoness terms, made use of a series ofmechanisms aimed at monitoring and evaluating individual performance on an ongoing basis, tracing every interaction taking place in the academicenvironment and in the outside world. Drawing inspiration from the work of Deborah Lupton, Inger Mewburn and Pat Thomson, The DigitalAcademic: Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education (2017), this paper looks at the digital self of contemporary academics.Using digital platforms such as Academia.edu, Linkedin, Googlescholar, University e-repositories, SlideShare, Content aggregator tools, digitalacademics can increase their daily interactions and the impact of their research. More than being interaction tools, these tools transform the academicsinto digital individuals whose performance is constantly monitored until they find themselves prisoner of a growing "dataveillance" (Lupton,Mewburn and Thomson, 2017). In this context, the question concerns not only the impact of digital technologies on the quality of contemporaryresearch, but also the impact of digital surveillance on the living and working conditions of contemporary academics, at a time where the tensions,conflicts and malaise that inhabit the neoliberal university have become ever more manifest

KW - neoliberal university

KW - digital academic

KW - ranking

KW - mental health

KW - depression

KW - new public management

KW - academic precarity

KW - digital technologies

KW - Mark Fisher

M3 - Journal article

VL - 1

SP - 1

EP - 23

JO - Rivista Trimestrale di Scienza dell'Amministrazione

JF - Rivista Trimestrale di Scienza dell'Amministrazione

SN - 1972-4942

IS - 2018

ER -