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ERIC Number: EJ1118800
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Nov
Pages: 20
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: EISSN-1474-9041
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Information We Collect: Surveillance and Privacy in the Implementation of Google Apps for Education
Lindh, Maria; Nolin, Jan
European Educational Research Journal, v15 n6 p644-663 Nov 2016
The aim of this study is to show how Google's business model is concealed within Google Apps for Education (GAFE) as well as how such a bundle is perceived within one educational organisation, consisting of approximately 30 schools. The study consists of two parts: 1) a rhetorical analysis of Google policy documents and 2) an interview study in a Swedish educational organisation. By making an implicit demarcation between the two concepts (your) "data" and (collected) "information" Google can disguise the presence of a business model for online marketing and, at the same time, simulate the practices and ethics of a free public service institution. This makes it problematic for Swedish schools to implement Google Apps for Education, bearing in mind Google's surveillance practices for making profits on pupil's algorithmic identities. From a front end viewpoint of Google Apps for Education, the advantages of the services are evident to the users, and emerge in the study, whereas back end strategies are relatively hidden.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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