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– Abstract – Introduction – The Service University and Market Discipline – Accountability – Changing Demographics – The Changing Classroom – Commodification, Colonization, and Discipline – Corporate Boards of Governors? – Counterpoints – EndNotes – References
KEYWORDS: COMMODIFICATION; COMMERCIALISATION; HIGHER EDUCATION; MARKET PENETRATION; NEOLIBERAL IDEOLOGIES; PUBLIC AWARENESS The article describes a preliminary study of a western Canadian university’s “research awareness campaign” and links it to the parallel appointment of a new president with a strong “public…
KEYWORDS: COMPUTERS; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, INTERNET; COMMERCIALIZATION; CREDIBILITY; ACCESS; SURVEILLANCE; PRIVACY The enormous educational potential of the Internet is threatened by the increasing commercialization of cyberspace. Beyond the obvious and often prohibitive costs of hardware, software, and Internet connectivity associated with…
Jeff Barry Cooperative Information Services Librarian The University of Tennessee Libraries Knoxville, TN 37996. [email protected]. The World-Wide Web initiative originated with the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) in 1989 as an attempt to electronically distribute the literature of high-…
*NOTE: All authors contributed equally to this project. Mike Sosteric, Editor EJS Assistant Professor Centre for Global and Social Analysis Athabasca University [email protected] Gina Ratkovic Department of Sociology University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Mike Gismondi, Associate Editor EJS Associate Professor…
Michelle Proulx Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario. Canada [email protected] Brian Campbell Department of Sociology and Anthropology Mount Allison University Sackville, New Brunswick. Canada [email protected] © 1997 Electronic Journal of Sociology Document hits Abstract The adoption of computer assisted…
WHERE IS NORTH AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE PRODUCTION HEADED: LOW-WAGE LEAN PRODUCTION Carl H.A. Dassbach Department of Social Sciences Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI 49931 [email protected] PHONE: (906) 487-2115 FAX: (906) 487-2468 This paper examines two trends in the restructuring of North…
Yuliang Liu What Does Research Say about the Nature of Computer-mediated Communication: Task-Oriented, Social-Emotion-Oriented, or Both? [HTML] Jason Powell and M. Edwards Policy Narratives of Aging: The Right Way, the Third Way or the Wrong Way? [HTML] Herb Thompson Cyberspace…
– Researching Serial Murder – Abstract – The Definition – The Killers are Male – The Victim and Offender are Strangers – Not for Material Gain – The Victims are Powerless – Measuring the Menace – Problems with Qualitative Data…
KEYWORDS: HTML; TUTORIAL; WORLD-WIDE WEB Since the release of the first NCSA Mosaic clients in 1993, the World-Wide Web (also known as the Web) has become an increasingly popular tool for disseminating information over the Internet. The HyperText Markup Language…
