{"title":"The \"Informal Economy\" of the Information University","authors":"M. Bousquet","doi":"10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I9.184043","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this essay, I want to explore what can be called the informatics of U.S. higher education—the managerial logic through which university administrators have transformed the academic workplace on the model of information, so that education (and the labor providing it) is increasingly “delivered” as data, flowing in a bitstream highly responsive to managerial direction.","PeriodicalId":42624,"journal":{"name":"Workplace-A Journal for Academic Labor","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2013-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Workplace-A Journal for Academic Labor","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.14288/WORKPLACE.V0I9.184043","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In this essay, I want to explore what can be called the informatics of U.S. higher education—the managerial logic through which university administrators have transformed the academic workplace on the model of information, so that education (and the labor providing it) is increasingly “delivered” as data, flowing in a bitstream highly responsive to managerial direction.