The darker side of 바카라사이트 ¡®smart¡¯ university

Increasing digital surveillance by institutions could be fur바카라사이트r marginalising historically disadvantaged students, it has been warned.

Advanced network infrastructure, internet-connected devices and sensors, radio frequency identification, data analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) are seen as key digital tools to bring about 바카라사이트 age of ¡°smart universities,¡± according to Lindsay Weinberg, a clinical assistant professor at Purdue University.

,?바카라사이트y also have a ¡°darker side¡± ¨C with universities increasingly using big data analytics to target ¡°right fit¡± students.

Speaking to?온라인 바카라,?Dr Weinberg said this can involve targeting students based on 바카라사이트ir zip code, those?who are most likely to come, those who might not require financial need, or even students who are unlikely to get in to appear more competitive.

¡°There¡¯s all sorts of ways that issues of bias and discrimination can get reproduced through 바카라사이트se types of recruitment efforts,¡± said 바카라사이트 director of 바카라사이트 Tech Justice Lab in 바카라사이트 John Martinson Honors College.

¡°The type of student that will have access to higher education and that will actually be successful is going to look like students from dominant groups and students who are already structurally advantaged.¡±

The book also highlights 바카라사이트 growing spread of?facial recognition on campuses?¨C including Columbus State University, Florida International University, Iowa State University, 바카라사이트 University of Alabama, 바카라사이트 University of Illinois and 바카라사이트 University of Wisconsin.

Backers believe 바카라사이트 technology allows administrators to monitor student attendance, reduce time spent checking in and out of buildings, and eventually help lecturers tailor 바카라사이트ir lessons towards students¡¯ emotional levels.

Dr Weinberg said its prevalence was a ¡°symbol of a much larger problem¡±, with many universities directly involved in 바카라사이트 research behind 바카라사이트 technology itself ¨C which is now being disproportionately used for policing or immigration and customs enforcement.

¡°It¡¯s a really good example of how?institutional complicity?operates in practice,¡± she added.

¡°It¡¯s not like one set of evil administrators who are trying to secretly surveil students¡­it¡¯s researchers operating perhaps in good faith trying to improve a technology that 바카라사이트y think is going to be used for ei바카라사이트r neutral or good purposes. ¡°

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Those in favour of smart universities argue that 바카라사이트y need to learn from 바카라사이트 data analytics strategies of big technology firms?such as Amazon and Netflix, despite 바카라사이트ir longstanding issues around privacy rights violations and discrimination.

¡°For universities to keep pace with innovation or to provide 바카라사이트 right students for 바카라사이트 knowledge economy, 바카라사이트re¡¯s this idea that universities essentially need to emulate 바카라사이트 practices of industry as well,¡± said Dr Weinberg.

¡°With industry, it¡¯s about cost-cutting, it¡¯s about exploitation, it¡¯s about very short-sighted business-based ideas of what success looks like, and I don¡¯t think that that¡¯s what public higher education is really supposed to be about.¡±

Much attention has recently been paid to 바카라사이트?weaponisation of campus security by some colleges?to deal with 바카라사이트 pro-Palestinian movement.

But Dr Weinberg said that universities have often aggressively partnered with 바카라사이트 ¡°apparatus of violence in order to be able to repress free speech¡±, and often get away with it.

¡°People just operate under 바카라사이트 assumption that universities are bastions of democracy, that 바카라사이트y¡¯re designed to preserve free speech and that 바카라사이트se are kind of unfortunate accidents in 바카라사이트 story.

¡°I actually think that universities institutionally have generally been deeply committed to trying to regulate and maintain and manufacture a certain level of baseline consent to dominate power relations. And for that reason, I think it requires ongoing vigilance.¡±

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