Readership: Professional: Educational policymakers, planners, adminstrators, academics; Academics: Scholars and graduate students in sociology, management, media and communication studies, education, social policy, and information and communication technology.
Edited by Kevin Robins, Professor of Communication, Goldsmiths College, University of London, and Frank Webster, Professor of Sociology, City University
"This valuable collection of essays avoids both cynical renunciation and breathless proclamation: it can be used as a lucid agenda of the issues." - Anthony Smith, Magdalen College, Oxford, The Times Higher Education Supplement
Part I: The New Global Context 1: Kevin Robins and Frank Webster: The Virtual University? 2: John Urry: Globalizing the Academy 3: Gerard Delanty: The University and Modernity: A History of the Present 4: Masao Miyoshi: The University in the 'Global' Economy Part II: Practices and Policies 5: James Cornford and Neil Pollock: Working Through the Work of Making Work Mobile 6: Charles Crook: The Virtual University: The Learner's Perspective 7: Mike Reed and Rosemary Deem: New Managerialism: The Manager-Academic and Technologies of Management in Universities---Looking Forward to Virtuality? 8: Yiannis Gabriel and Andrew Sturdy: Exporting Management -- Neo-Imperialism and Global Consumerism 9: Lee Benson and Ira Harkavy: Saving the Soul of the University: What is to be Done? 10: Philip Agre: Commodity and Community: Institutional Design for the Networked University Part III: Prospects and Possibilities 11: Les Levidow: Marketizing Higher Education: Neo-Liberal Strategies and Counter Strategies 12: Tim Luke: Digital Discourses, Online Classes, Electronic Documents: Developing New University Techno-Cultures 13: David F. Noble: Rehearsal for the Revolution 14: Martin Trow: Some Consequences of the New Information and Communications Technologies for Higher Education Kevin Robins and Frank Webster: Afterword: What Will be the Global Identity of the University?
