Volume 37 Issue 1 (2021)
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Editorial
Prometheus is now an open access journal. On the face of it, this is excellent news: open access should give easier access to those who want to read the material…
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The cult of the quantifiable: the fetishism of numbers in higher education
This paper examines the ‘fetishism of numbers’ (Gudeman, 1998, p.1) that has taken hold in restructured, market-oriented institutions of higher education. As all areas of academic life have been rendered…
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The discourse of social innovation and gender equality
In Swedish government discourse, social entrepreneurship and social innovation have come to be articulated as the solutions to a wide array of societal challenges and social problems. Within this discourse…
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The change agent in innovation
Much has been written on change management in the organization, and on the roles and expertise involved. But the change agent, whether internal or external to the organization, has received…
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Australian attitudes towards innovation, work and technology: towards a cultural explanation
Australia, despite its G20 status, has not been performing as well in innovation in high-technology sectors as its educational levels and sustained growth would suggest. Australia has found it difficult…
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Mark Coeckelbergh, AI Ethics
AI Ethics by Mark Coeckelbergh (2020) MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 248pp., $US15.95 (paperback) ISBN: 9780262538190 In the late 1980s, I got into artificial intelligence (AI) in the final stages of…
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Kean Birch and Fabian Muniesa (eds) Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism
Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism, edited by Kean Birch and Fabian Muniesa (2020) MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 338pp., $US40 (paperback) ISBN 9780262539173 Contrary to common belief, it…
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Carissa Véliz, Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data and Scott Skinner-Thompson, Privacy at the Margins
Privacy is Power: Why and How you Should Take Back Control of Your Data by Carissa Véliz (2020) Bantam, London, 288pp., £15 (hardback) ISBN: 9781787634046 Privacy at the Margins by…
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Carl Benedikt Frey, The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation by Carl Benedikt Frey (2019) Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 465pp., $US30 (hardback) ISBN: 978-0-691-17279-8 Carl Benedikt Frey…
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Yorick Wilks, Artificial Intelligence: Modern Magic or Dangerous Future?
Artificial Intelligence: Modern Magic or Dangerous Future? by Yorick Wilks (2019) Icon Books, London, 176pp., £9 (paperback) ISBN: 9781785785160 Artificial intelligence has left the worlds of academia and the research…