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The Campus After COVID-19
- Author(s):
- Bonnie Mak (see profile) , Hallam Stevens
- Date:
- 2021
- Group(s):
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society
- Subject(s):
- Information science, Critical theory, Data mining, Science--Study and teaching, Technology--Study and teaching
- Item Type:
- Essay
- Tag(s):
- academia, digital surveillance, Innovation, Critical data studies, Science and technology studies (STS)
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/8rbd-sk13
- Abstract:
- This essay compares the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic at two universities on opposite sides of the world: Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the United States. It argues that the pandemic has revealed the extent to which campuses have reorganized their institutional priorities according to the values of an "entrepreneurial university." At both NTU and UIUC, campus communities have become testbeds for "innovation" in biomedical infrastructures and epidemiological modeling, as well as a panoply of digital initiatives related to data collection, tracking, and surveillance. Although such efforts are not without local benefits, they also put at risk the same people that they are purportedly meant to protect in service of the global market economy. But what, we ask, of the moral economy?
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Online publication
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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