Kitto and Higgins (both affiliated with Monash U., Australia) report findings from a study examining the effects of information communication technologies (ICTs) as techniques for neoliberal governing within universities. Using a regional Australian university as the site of the study, the authors explore the strategies and tactics through which ICTs are implemented, and their subsequent involvement in the constitution and governing of the "freedom" of the on-campus student and, to a lesser degree, that of academics. They argue that this is not an unproblematic process in which ICTs act as "neutral" tools to improve the governing of universities. Instead, they find it to be a highly political, productive, and ironic process that changes the concept and practice of the university and subjectivities of academics and students. For academics, researchers, policymakers, and students worldwide concerned with potentially negative uses of ICTs in higher education. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Investigates the effects of information communication technologies (ICTs) as techniques for neoliberal, or what we refer to as 'advanced liberal', governing within universities using a regional Australian university as the site of study. This book seeks to demonstrate how the adoption of ICTs reconfigures universities as sites of governing.
