Are we witnessing denationalization of the higher education media?
By Kris Olds July 15, 2010 12:38 am
The denationalization of higher education – the process whereby developmental logics, frames, and practices, are increasingly associated with what is happening at a larger (beyond the nation) scale continues apace. As alluded to in my last two substantive entries:- ‘Bibliometrics, global rankings, and transparency’
- ‘The temporal rhythm of academic life in a globalizing era’
this process is being shaped by new actors, new networks, new rationalities, new technologies, and new temporal rhythms. Needless to say, this development process is also generating a myriad of impacts and outcomes, some welcome, and some not.While the denationalization process is a phenomenon that is of much interest to policy-making institutions (e.g., the OECD), foundations and funding councils, scholarly research networks, financial analysts, universities, and the like, I would argue that it is only now, at a
"The powerful figures who rolled over and played dead, when they surely
could have defended themselves, democracy, vulnerable Americans, and civil
society with just a modicum of courage"
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*Worst of News Outlets*: Of all the legacy outlets to turn tail, none
exceeded *CBS *in its utter forfeiture of moral authority and journalistic
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