Edtech Inc.: Selling, Automating and Globalizing Higher Education in the Digital Age

This book advances a critical political economy approach to EdTech and analyses the economic, political and ideological structures and social power relations that shape the EdTech industries and drive EdTech’s development and diffusion.

Particular attention is paid to the integration of EdTech with some of the most contentious developments of our time, including platformization and data-veillance, the automation of work and labor, and globalization-imperialism.

By using a political economy of communication approach, this book will be of value to anyone interested in the current transformations of capitalism, the State, higher education and online learning in the digital age.

Tanner Mirrlees is an associate professor of communications and digital media studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT).

Shahid Alvi is a professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT).