scholarly journals Theorising and Analysing Academic Labour

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-77
Author(s):  
Thomas Allmer
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Achievement ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
Academic Information ◽  
Post War ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this article is to contextualise universities historically within capitalism and to analyse academic labour and the deployment of digital media theoretically and critically. It argues that the post-war expansion of the university can be considered as medium and outcome of informational capitalism and as a dialectical development of social achievement and advanced commodification. The article strives to identify the class position of academic workers, introduces the distinction between academic work and labour, discusses the connection between academic, information and cultural work, and suggests a broad definition of university labour. It presents a theoretical model of working conditions that helps to systematically analyse the academic labour process and to provide an overview of working conditions at universities. The paper furthermore argues for the need to consider the development of education technologies as a dialectics of continuity and discontinuity, discusses the changing nature of the forces and relations of production, and the impact on the working conditions of academics in the digital university. Based on Erik Olin Wright’s inclusive approach of social transformation, the article concludes with the need to bring together anarchist, social democratic and revolutionary strategies for establishing a socialist university in a commons-based information society.

scholarly journals Academic Labour, Digital Media and Capitalism

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 599-615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Allmer
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Achievement ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
Academic Information ◽  
Post War ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this article is to contextualise universities historically within capitalism and to analyse academic labour and the deployment of digital media theoretically and critically. It argues that the post-war expansion of the university can be considered as medium and outcome of informational capitalism and as a dialectical development of social achievement and advanced commodification. The article strives to identify the class position of academic workers, introduces the distinction between academic work and labour, discusses the connection between academic, information and cultural work, and suggests a broad definition of university labour. It presents a model of working conditions that helps to systematically analyse the academic labour process and to provide an overview of working conditions at universities. The article furthermore argues for the need to consider the development of education technologies as a dialectics of continuity and discontinuity, discusses the changing nature of the forces and relations of production, and the impact on the working conditions of academics in the digital university. Based on Erik Olin Wright’s inclusive approach of social transformation, the article concludes with the need to bring together anarchist, social democratic and revolutionary strategies for establishing a socialist university in a commons-based information society.

scholarly journals Theorising and Analysing Academic Labour

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Allmer
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Achievement ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
Academic Information ◽  
Post War ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this article is to contextualise universities historically within capitalism and to analyse academic labour and the deployment of digital media theoretically and critically. It argues that the post-war expansion of the university can be considered as medium and outcome of informational capitalism and as a dialectical development of social achievement and advanced commodification. The article strives to identify the class position of academic workers, introduces the distinction between academic work and labour, discusses the connection between academic, information and cultural work, and suggests a broad definition of university labour. It presents a theoretical model of working conditions that helps to systematically analyse the academic labour process and to provide an overview of working conditions at universities. The paper furthermore argues for the need to consider the development of education technologies as a dialectics of continuity and discontinuity, discusses the changing nature of the forces and relations of production, and the impact on the working conditions of academics in the digital university. Based on Erik Olin Wright’s inclusive approach of social transformation, the article concludes with the need to bring together anarchist, social democratic and revolutionary strategies for establishing a socialist university in a commons-based information society.

Semantic ontologies for multimedia indexing (SOMI)

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Issam Bendib ◽  
Mohamed Ridda Laouar ◽  
Richard Hacken ◽  
Mathew Miles
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Keyword Spotting ◽  
Multimedia Indexing ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Error Training ◽  
Automated Speech Recognition ◽  
Semantic Associations ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University

Purpose – The overwhelming speed and scale of digital media production greatly outpace conventional indexing methods by humans. The management of Big Data for e-library speech resources requires an automated metadata solution. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – A conceptual model called semantic ontologies for multimedia indexing (SOMI) allows for assembly of the speech objects, encapsulation of semantic associations between phonic units and the definition of indexing techniques designed to invoke and maximize the semantic ontologies for indexing. A literature review and architectural overview are followed by evaluation techniques and a conclusion. Findings – This approach is only possible because of recent innovations in automated speech recognition. The introduction of semantic keyword spotting allows for indexing models that disambiguate and prioritize meaning using probability algorithms within a word confusion network. By the use of AI error-training procedures, optimization is sought for each index item. Research limitations/implications – Validation and implementation of this approach within the field of digital libraries still remain under development, but rapid developments in technology and research show rich conceptual promise for automated speech indexing. Practical implications – The SOMI process has been preliminarily tested, showing that hybrid semantic-ontological approaches produce better accuracy than semantic automation alone. Social implications – Even as testing proceeds on recorded conference talks at the University of Tebessa (Algeria), other digital archives can look toward similar indexing. This will mean greater access to sound file metadata. Originality/value – Huge masses of spoken data, unmanageable for a human indexer, can prospectively find semantically sorted and prioritized indexing – not transcription, but generated metadata – automatically, quickly and accurately.

scholarly journals TÉCNICOS ADMINISTRATIVOS E POLÍTICAS AFIRMATIVAS: o que mudou na Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wildacy Gonçalves Ribeiro EVANGELISTA ◽  
Cintia Souza Machado FERREIRA
Keyword(s):  
Student Affairs ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Well Being ◽  
State University ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Development Unit ◽  
Work Routine ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

This study, supported by bibliographical and documentary research, discusses the implementation of Public Policies for Affirmative Actions at the State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS) and the impacts on the work routine of the institution’s Administrative Technicians. It aims to verify the impact of the extinction of an Organization and Community Development Unit to the category, whose purpose was the development of actions aimed at life quality and social well-being of Technicians, Teachers and Students, for the implantation of a Pro-Dean of Affirmative Policies and Student Affairs aimed at students. The results point to the need for a better understanding of affirmative action policies across the University Community, showing the changes that have affected Administrative Technicians in detriment of this organizational change, reveal the lack of systemic training to support the quota population, and signal the need for a close look to Administrative Technicians demands for improving working conditions and life quality by UEFS.

scholarly journals The right to comfort in the century of the self

2021 ◽  
pp. 4-7
Author(s):  
Zara Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Government ◽  
Post War ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

After the war, the world was divided between two main powers, a Western capitalist bloc led by the USA, and an Eastern communist bloc, driven by the USSR. From Japan to Mexico, the post-war years were ones of prosperous economic growth and profound social transformation. It was the time of re-housing families split apart and of rebuilding destroyed cities, but it was also the time of democratic rebirth, the definition of individual and collective freedoms and rights, and of belief in the open society envisaged by Karl Popper. Simultaneously, it was the time of the biggest migrations from the countryside, revealing a large faith in the city, and of baby booms, revealing a new hope in humanity. (...) Whether through welfare state systems, as mainly evidenced in Western Europe, under the prospects launched by the Plan Marshall (1947), or through the establishment of local housing authorities funded or semi-funded by the government, or through the support of private companies, civil organizations or associations, the time had come for the large-scale application of the principles of modern architecture and engineering developed before the war. From the Spanish polígonos residenciales to the German großsiedlungen, ambitious housing programs were established in order to improve the citizens’ living conditions and health standards, as an answer to the housing shortage, and as a symbol of a new egalitarian society: comfort would no longer only be found in bourgeois houses.

Individual and Collective Guilt: Post-War Japan and the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
MADOKA FUTAMURA
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
War Crimes ◽  
Collective Guilt ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Military Tribunal ◽  
International War ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

It is a popular view that international war crimes tribunals are a tool for social transformation and reconciliation after conflicts. According to advocates, one of their strengths in this regard is the individual punishment of criminals, which is said to achieve justice for victims while avoiding the collectivization of guilt. This is also said to have the effect of endorsing the transformation of the nation by freeing it from the burden of collective guilt while detaching those responsible for war crimes from the society concerned and eliminating their political influence. Does individual criminal punishment achieve these? And is the de-collectivization of guilt through international trials desirable for post-conflict social transformation and reconciliation? This article addresses these questions by focusing on the impact of the Tokyo International Military Tribunal, which is analyzed through the ways in which it has been perceived in post-war Japan. It argues that the Tribunal's punishment of wartime leaders produced an ambiguous effect on the Japanese people's sense of war guilt and responsibility, which in turn became an obstacle for the nation to achieve reconciliation not only with its former victims but also with its own past. The article questions the assumption that international criminal justice can promote social transformation and reconciliation.

scholarly journals Possibilities of using social networks in the modern educational process in universities

2020 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 00084
Author(s):  
V.A. Buzni ◽  
M.E. Ivanova ◽  
L.I. Abbasova
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Personal Communication ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The University ◽  
Educational Potential ◽  
The Impact

The article discusses issues related to the study of the main attributes of the modern digital media space – social networks. The key issue, which is reflected in this article, concerns the educational potential of social networks, as well as their abilities in the context of the system of professional training of modern, competitive and most relevant specialists. The essence and specificity of social networks, their segments, effects and developing areas are determined. The possibilities of using social networks in the modern educational process in universities are revealed, and the process of their use is actualized, their certain potential is emphasized, as well as the effectiveness and inefficiency of individual elements of social networks. The study was based on a questionnaire survey – one of the most statistically useful and significant methods for researching the impact and effectiveness of socially significant technologies used in any area. The questioning was carried out among the student and pedagogical communities of the Republic of Crimea through a questionnaire and a survey posted on the “Vkontakte” social network, receiving the priority attention of most students and teachers both for personal communication and for remote interaction for educational purposes. In total about 100 teachers and about 150 students from various Crimean universities, areas of training, forms of education took part in the survey. The topic of the questionnaire is “The determination of educational opportunities for using social networks in the modern educational space of the university” and “The identification of the most effective options for using social networks in the modern educational process of the university”. The respondents gave answers to the questionnaire questions anonymously and impartially, which guarantees the reliability and accuracy of the results obtained.

scholarly journals What do university teachers do all day (and often into the night)?'

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-23
Author(s):  
Josie Arnold ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
University Research ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Teaching and the student experience are interlocked. This paper takes a personal look at the pleasures and pressures of teaching in contemporary higher education. In doing so it adds to the definition of teachers’ work in higher education, surveys some of the creative and positive sides of University teaching and shines a light upon the impact of increased commercialisation and managerial approaches upon academic work. It focuses upon the teaching and learning activities that academics undertake in the service of the university, including the research that adds to and updates their own knowledge, and hence underpins their teaching, so as to enable and enrich the learning journeys of their students. This paper has been written as a personal narrative, as what I have come to call a ‘subjective academic narrative’. The ‘subjective’ refers to acknowledgement of the inevitability of the personal being an integral part of research; the ‘academic’ refers to the analytical and the intellectual ambience in which university research takes place; and the ‘narrative’ refers to the story, that is, the way in which we re-tell all of our research. Above all, this paper contributes to a sense of understanding some of the elements of teaching that are involved in student engagement.

A New Model for the Impact of Knowledge Management on University Performance

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (04) ◽  
pp. 1650041 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kherbouche Asma ◽  
Megnounif Abdellatif
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Economic Sector ◽  
Complex Environment ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
University Performance ◽  
The University ◽  
Operational Excellence ◽  
The Impact

Based on a systemic approach, this study proposes the modelling of a knowledge management system (KMS), which allows studying the cause and effect relationships between knowledge management (KM) and the university's performance. The approach relies on the definition of the main activities of the KM process, namely the acquisition, capitalisation, diffusion and utilisation of knowledge. Recent literature suggests that such KM activities are influenced by environmental elements. External and internal functional analysis of KMS is developed using the APTE method to describe the KM process, that handles all different element or factors of knowledge and see their impact on university's performance. The latter is measured according to customer needs, by three perspectives (customer satisfaction, operational excellence and the direction of the product). The proposed model suggests that the combination of the type and origin of knowledge are important for the KM process and positive relations were established between the subfunctions of this process and the performance of the university in responding to different needs of several customers such as students, teachers, managers and socio-economic sector. Finally, the model allows a good implementation of KM in higher education institutions in order to help them to remain competitive in an increasingly complex environment.

scholarly journals Audit Sistem Informasi Akademik Pada Universitas XYZ Menggunakan COBIT 5 Pada Domain MEA

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Halim Agung ◽  
Johanes Fernandes Andry
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information System ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Functional Information ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Academic Information ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

The study was conducted to measure the level of capability of the academic information system towards the achievement of the university’s vision and mission. The researcher examined the impact that occurred on the university regarding the level of capability of the academic information system. The focus of this study is about effectiveness, efficiency, functional information technology units in academic information systems, integrity, saveguarding assets, reliability, confidentiality, availability and security. The researcher conducts literature studies, interviews, distributing questionnaires, examines documents and analyzes the results of questionnaire dissemination and document checking to obtain actual values from the level of capability of academic information systems and factors that affect academic information systems. The researcher processes the statistical data in the form of validity and reliability tests. Researchers use the COBIT 5 framework on 1 domain, namely the Monitor, Evaluate and Assess (MEA) domain to conduct research on the capabilities of academic information systems. The results of the study are in the form of recommendations for solutions for improving the capabilities of academic information systems at universities.

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