🧠🔒💰is the emoji version of my latest writing on 'cognitive lock-ins.' Read the full open-access commentary in @BigDataSoc.
https://t.co/LoMWQQwDY4
#LLM#GAI#attention#economy
I’m very happy to announce that the book that I, @SotiriaGrek @joakimlandahl and M Lawn have been working on for the past few years is now published: The World as a Laboratory. Torsten Husén and The Rise of Transnational Research in Education 1950-1990s https://t.co/D70hu17a9a
Our new #commentary by @Hansen_edu 👉 introduces the concept of ‘cognitive lock-in’ to explore how #platforms like #ChatGPT create technological dependencies, questioning the future of #AI#monetization beyond the attention economy. Check it out 🔗 https://t.co/sb6kvcBBoy
People seemed to appreciate this reading list, so I'm posting it again (with a small update).
It's the 10 key books in the reading list for my course, "Development Economics", which I teach at Cambridge.
Will either "surveillance capitalism" or "techno-feudalism" framework survive the rise of generative AI? I very much doubt it: both seem less relevant/accurate today than they did a few years ago. A thread on what we've learned about their deficiencies.
Our paper on university datafication has just been published. We analyse university struggles in making data useful and becoming data-powered organisations. Written with @keanbirch and Sam Sellar. Available open access: https://t.co/fJUxS1sfNu
📣 Latest research article
@UsersAreGhosts, Moscovitz, @Rocio_Fdezug, @Hansen_edu, Hughson, Marfán & @OudaiTozan examine UNESCO’s construction of a commons approach to global education.
#OpenAccess
https://t.co/MACOWJbFh0
My longish review of Michel Callon's Markets in the Making (in which I sidle from Salman Rushdie to the Waterboys by way of Benjamin, Akrich, Foucault, Rorty @BlokAnders all all that) is finally out in @jcultecon https://t.co/J4KSSx1MKV
New report on digitalisation and datafication of UK universities and the #EdTech industry with findings from the Universities and Unicorns project. It’s aimed at HE and EdTech stakeholders and policymakers. With @Hansen_edu, Sam Sellar and @keanbirch. https://t.co/R2Fbkq81ci
VS theme call! "Comparing, categorizing, valuating: entangled modes of ordering" -- edited by Thomas Müller, Leopold Ringel, Elisa Ronzheimer and Jørgen Sneis https://t.co/wkxY2UTLRR
Interesting piece by @Hansen_edu, Teaching Assistant at IIPP, on the importance of writing from a teacher's perspective. He asks "what does the usage of automated reasoning do to the student experience?"
Read his reflective piece here: https://t.co/qWgIQDAgkr
Hey friends!
@devikadutt and I are teaching our Decolonising Economics module for the first time this term (inspired by our book with @cacrisalves and @SurbhiKesar).
In case anyone's interested, we've made the syllabus publicly available 😊
https://t.co/M0Dx7rgs66
We are now open to Special Issue Proposals!
Have an exciting, engaging new insight that you would like to share with the Sociology audience? Submit now!
Deadline 3 October 2023
Details below!
https://t.co/I32tXKGgAx
What role should governing bodies have in academic governance and assurance? I’m speaking today at the @cdbuni conference Whose Universities? I’ll be building on my earlier @HEPI_news Policy Note and blog https://t.co/Iuyy2ghCaH
Sorry for the cliché, but #TheDawnOfEverything (David Graeber and @davidwengrow) really is a book that everyone should read.
Completely changed my view of human history and consequently of what we are capable of building together in the future.
Venture capital investment into defence tech companies has boomed in recent years on hope of US gov contracts. US investment in defence start-ups surged from less than $16bn in 2019 to $33bn in 2023, PitchBook data shows.
https://t.co/meYQdyJJAg