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Back to EpisodesEd tech and student surveillance with Lindsay Weinberg
Published 1 year, 2 months ago
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Alexa in the dorm room. ProctorU monitoring exams. TurnItIn helping* faculty grade. Tech services are omnipresent on and off campus, and they come with a cost. Lindsay Weinberg offers a critical analysis of today's Smart Universities.
- Lindsay Weinberg. 2025. Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age. Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Tamara Kneese. January 27, 2021. "How a Dead Professor is Teaching a University Art History Class." Slate.
- Sonel Cutler. March 29, 2024. "Graduate Students Went on Strike. Then a Dean Suggested That Professors Use AI to Keep Classes Going." The Chronicle of Higher Education.
- Alex Hanna and Emily Bender. 2025. The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want. Haper Collins.
- Callum Cant, James Muldoon, and Mark Graham. 2024. Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labor Powering AI. Bloomsbury.
- Keep up with Purdue University’s Tech Justice Lab.
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