Does this book exist?
"How Universities Lost the Internet"
or has someone done research on this topic? That is, the fact that many North American universities have ceded all technical capacity to Microsoft, Google, etc?
It used to be students could get web hosting, email, and even some cool experimental online stuff through their schools. Now every online communication channel is locked down.
@karengregory I'd imagine it would have to be historical.
I also imagine universities-as-brands would be a big part of the picture -- with falling funding from states and increasing emphasis on advertising, they wouldn't want a bunch of students mucking about on 'official' channels
@rwg @karengregory in NL we have this: https://social.edu.nl/@wlaatje/111289232717206101 — and yet we turned over all digital infrastructure in higher ed to US tech giants.
Perhaps @l03s @Femke @titipi have leads on other parts of this history.
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@becha @jboy @rwg @karengregory @l03s @Femke @titipi In Australia the emergence of the LMS and then the MOOCapalooza meant that we doubly capitulated: to big tech and then to big America. Our one home-baked platform brand has slipped seamlessly into the world like an Australian actor into Hollywood. (“Wait, it’s Australian? No way.”)
But Australia was primed for this by colonialism which has always, everywhere come with education systems and values that favour the coloniser culture. So, what goes around comes around.
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