The University and the Algorithmic Gaze

• Main Author: Gourlay, Lesley
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London Bloomsbury Academic 2025
• Subjects: algorithmic gaze; Algorithms; Algorithms and data structures; Applied Linguistics; Audit cultures; Big Data; Communication; Communication studies; Computer programming / software engineering; Computing and Information Technology; Data science and analysis: general; Digital; Education; h-index; Higher Education; Higher education, tertiary education; Impact of science and technology on society; Interdisciplinary studies; Language and Linguistics; Learning Analytics; learning analytics dashboards; Linguistics; Mathematics and Science; performativity; postphenomenology of practice; QS rankings; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; Research Excellence Framework; Science: general issues; Semiotics; smart campus surveillance; Society and Social Sciences; Sociolinguistics; Surveillance; video conferencing

This open access book takes an innovative and critical look at the ways in which digital data and algorithms are changing the face of higher education in multiple ways. It examines their impact at both the macro scale of universities and systems worldwide, but also at the more subtle level of effect...