La ineptitud del digital academic: precariedad y salud en el mundo universitario
Main Article Content
Abstract
Inspirado por el trabajo de Deborah Lupton, Inger Mewburn y Pat Thomson, The Digital Academic: Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education (2017), este artículo examina el yo digital académico contemporáneo. Más allá de la utilidad que pueden tener en cuanto a la interacción, plataformas digitales como Academia.edu, Linkedin, Google Scholar, etc. transforman al académico o académica en un sujeto digital cuyo rendimiento se controla constantemente hasta convertirlo en prisionero de una creciente dataveillance, una vigilancia a través de los datos. En este contexto, analizamos el impacto de los mencionados procesos de monitorización continua del rendimiento y la productividad sobre las condiciones de vida y trabajo de los profesionales universitarios contemporáneos, en un momento en el que las tensiones, los conflictos y el malestar que habitan la universidad neoliberal parecen volverse cada vez más incapacitantes.
Drawing inspiration from the work of Deborah Lupton, Inger Mewburn and Pat Thomson, The Digital Academic: Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education (2017), this paper looks at the digital self of contemporary academics. Using digital platforms such as Academia.edu, Linkedin, Googlescholar, digital academics can increase their daily interactions and the impact of their research. More than being interaction tools, these tools transform the academics into digital individuals whose performance is constantly monitored until they find themselves prisoner of a growing «dataveillance» (Lupton, Mewburn and Thomson, 2017). In this context, the question concerns not only the impact of digital technologies on the quality of contemporary research, but also the impact of digital surveillance on the living and working conditions of contemporary academics, at a time where the tensions, conflicts and malaise that inhabit the neoliberal university have become ever more manifest.
Downloads
Article Details
References
Abravanel Roger (2008). Meritocrazia. Milano: Garzanti.
American College Health Association (2015). American College Health Association-National College Health. Assessment II. Thompson Rivers University Executive Summary. Hanover, MD: American College Health Association.
Arnold, Douglas N. y Fowler, Kristine K. (2011). Nefarious numbers. Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 58(3), 434-437.
Arrow, Kenneth J. (1973). Higher education as a filter. Journal of Public Economics, 2(3), 193-216.
Autor, David H., Katz, Lawrence F. y Kearney, Melissa S. (2006). The polarization of the U.S. labor market. American Economic Review, 96(2), 189-194.
Baccini, Alberto (2010). Valutare la ricerca scientifica. Uso e abuso degli indicatori bibliometrici. Milano: Il Mulino.
Baccini, Alberto (2017). Valutazione, i dubbi prima del «tagliando, Scuola24. Recuperado de: http://www.scuola24.ilsole24ore.com/art/universita-e-ricerca/2017-08-22/valutazione-dubbi-prima-tagliando-180003.php?uuid=AEUoHBGC [Consultado el 23 de marzo de 2018].
Baccini, Alberto, Coin, Francesca y Sirilli, Giorgio (2013). Costi e benefici della valutazione della ricerca e della didattica. Paradoxa Forum, VII-2, 49-61.
Burdett, Kenneth (1978). The testing and sorting functions of higher education. Journal of Public Economics, 10(1), 117-122.
Coin, Francesca (2012). La valutazione: da ranking a profilo di qualità. Scuola Democratica, 5, 160-165.
Coin, Francesca (2017). On quitting. Ephemera. Journal of theory and politics in organisation, 17(3), 235-249.
Cooper, Mark J. (2012). Antidotes for the publish or perish syndrome. Recuperado de: https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/faculty-development/antidotes-for-the-publish-or-perish-syndrome [Consultado el 24 de marzo de 2018].
Dangarembga, Tsitsi (1988). Nervous conditions. London: Women’s Press.
Else, Holly (2017). Academics face higher mental health risk than other professions. Recuperado de: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academics-face-higher-mental-health-risk-than-other-professions [Consultado el 25 de marzo de 2018].
Figà-Talamanca, Alessandro (2000). L’impact factor nella valutazione della ricerca. Return on Academic Research. Recuperado de: http://siba.unipv.it/biblioteche/info/SISSCOWEB_A_Fig_Talamanca_L%27impact_factor_nella_valutazione_della_ricerca_SISSCOWEB.htm [Consultado el 25 de marzo de 2018].
Fisher, Mark (2014). Good For Nothing. The Occupied Times. Recuperado de: https://theoccupiedtimes.org/?p=12841 [Consultado el 26 de marzo de 2018].
Gani, Aisha (2016). Tuition fees have led to surge in students seeking counselling. Recuperado de: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/mar/13/tuition-fees-have-led-to-surge-in-students-seeking-counselling [Consultado el 23 de marzo de 2018].
Garfield, Eugene (2006). Commentary: fifty years of citation indexing. International Journal of Epidemiology, 35, 1127-1128. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyl190.
Gill, Rosalind (2015) Rompiendo el silencio: las heridas ocultas de la universidad neoliberal. Arxius de Ciències Socials, 32, 45-58.
Guthrie, Sussan, Lichten, Catherine, Van Belle, Janna, Ball, Sarah, Knack, Anna y Hofman, Joanna (2017). Understanding mental health in the research environment. A Rapid Evidence Assessment. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation.
Hall, Gary (2016). The Uberfication of the University. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Henriques, Gregg (15 de febrero, 2014). College Student Mental Health Crisis. Psicology today. Recuperado de: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/theory-knowledge/201402/the-college-student-mental-health-crisis [Consultado el 23 de marzo de 2018].
Hirtt, Nico (2010). In Europa, le competenze contro i saperi. Le Monde Diplomatique. Recuperado de: http://rete-eco.it/2011/documenti/35-riflessioni/17356-in-europa-le-competenze-contro-i-saperi.html [Consultado el 20 de marzo de 2018].
Kostoris Padoa Schioppa, Fiorella (2012). Ragioni, criteri e modalita’ di realizzazione di un test sulle competenze effettive di carattere generalista dei laureandi italiani, ANVUR. Recuperado de: https://www.uniba.it/organizzazione/amministrazione/dirgen/cso/area-percorsi-qualita/VQAF/Kost.pdf [Consultado el 24 de marzo de 2018].
Levecque, Katia, Anseel, Frederik, De Beuckelaer, Alain, Van der Heyden, Johan y Gislef, Lydia (2017). Work organization and mental health problems in PhD students. Research Policy, 46(4), 868-879. doi: 10.1016/j.respol.2017.02.008.
Lupton, Deborah (2016). The quantified self. A sociology of self-tracking. Malden: Polity Press.
Lupton, Deborah, Mewburn, Inger y Thomson, Pat (2017). The Digital Academic: Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education. New York: Routledge.
Marginson, Simon (2009). The knowledge economy and higher education: A system for regulating the value of knowledge. Higher Education Management and Policy, 21(1), 31-46.
Malesic, Jonathan (2016) The 40-Year-Old Burnout. Why I gave up tenure for a yet-to-be-determined career. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Recuperado de: http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-40-Year-Old-Burnout/237979 [Consultado del 24 de marzo de 2018].
Maslach, Christina (2003). Burnout. The Cost of Caring. Los Altos: Malor Book.
Maslach, Christina y Leiter, Michael P. (1997). The truth about burnout: How organizations cause personal stress and what to do about it. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Moore, Phoebe V. (2017). The Quantified Self in Precarity: Work, Technology and What Counts. New York: Routledge.
Neill, Ushma S. (2008). Publish or perish, but at what cost? Journal of Clinical Investigation 118(7), 2368. doi: 10.1172/JCI36371.
Phillips, Siobhan y Heywood-Roos, Rhona (2015). Job security for early career researchers is a significant factor in helping research make an impact. Impact of Social Sciences Blog. Recuperado de: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/06/30/early-career-paths-of-doctorate-holders-esf-pilot/ [Consultado el 20 de diciembre de 2017].
Sassen, Saskia (2015). Espulsioni. Brutalità e complessità nell’economia globale. Roma: Il Mulino.
Scelfo, Julie (27 de julio, 2015). Suicide on Campus and the Pressure of Perfection. The New York Times. Recuperado de: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/education/edlife/stress-social-media-and-suicide-on-campus.html?mcubz=0 [Consultado el 20 de marzo de 2018].
Shaw, Claire y Ward, Lucy (2014). Dark thoughts: why mental illness is on the rise in academia. The Guardian, 6 de marzo. Recuperado de: http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2014/mar/06/mental-health-academics-growing-problem-pressure-university [Consultado el 12 de marzo de 2018].
Striphas, Ted (2015). Algorithmic culture. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 18(4-5), 395-412.
The Economist (2010). The disposable academic. Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time. The Economist (Christmas Special, 16 de diciembre). Recuperado de: http://www.economist.com/node/17723223?story id=17723223 [Consultado el 22 de marzo de 2018].
The Provost’s Committee on Student Mental Health (2016). The State of Student Mental Health on College and University Campuses. Recuperado de: http://www.mentalhealth.umn.edu/download/Provost_s_Committee_on_Student_Mental_Health_White_Paper_Final.pdf [Consultado el 22 de marzo de 2018].
Toscano, Emanuele (Coord.) (2014). Ricercarsi. Indagine sui percorsi di vita e lavoro del precariato universitario. Recuperado de: https://www.academia.edu/11162215/Ricercarsi._Indagine_sui_percorsi_di_vita_e_lavoro_del_precariato_universitario [Consultado el 22 de febrero de 2019].