Michael Stack
Biographic Data
| ID | 101560 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Stack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Stack |
| SIGNATURE | STACK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5569-1054 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Investigating an Assessment Design that Prevents Students from Using ChatGPT as the Sole Basis to Pass Assessment at the Tertiary Level
This paper investigated how to design undergraduate assessments that could not be adequately answered by ChatGPT. The paper was embedded in the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy as a theoretical model. ChatGPT has presented significant challenges to lecturers when setting assessments at the tertiary level. There is enormous potential for students to attempt to use ChatGPT to write and pass assessments. Design Based Research formed the basis of this paper’…
The murder of George Floyd and the mediatization of solidarity by top-ranked universities
This paper is a critical discourse analysis of the responses by Harvard and Oxford to the murder of George Floyd. Findings point to how the two institutions visually separate stated commitments to equity and their identities as world-class institutions. The official university response is compared and contrasted to student media, The New York Times and The Guardian. Mediatization provides a framework for looking at the multiple logics that elite …
Media and government framing of asylum seekers and migrant workers in Canada during the Covid-19 pandemic
One understudied area of adult education and lifelong learning is the role of media as educator and policy player. This article describes how the authors used critical discourse analysis to examine how asylum seekers, migrant workers and their advocates have challenged long-standing discursive framings of them as benefactors of Canadian generosity, criminals, burdens or victims – during the first ten months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis …
Responding to the Covid-19 pandemic
The Times Higher Education ranking product
This paper will examine the Times Higher Education's (THE) World University Rankings as a corporate media product. A number of empirical studies have critiqued the methodology of the THE, yet individuals, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and governments continue to use them for decision-making. This paper analyses the influence of rankings through the concepts of mediatization and visualisation. To this end, this paper will examine how media …
Spectacle and Symbolic Subversion
I use the concepts of spectacle and symbolic subversion to analyze three student videos about the war on Iraq and consumerism. I argue that Debord's concept of spectacle provides a powerful theory for examining the erasure of histories and the obsession with the consumption of images. However, unlike Debord, I argue there is room for what Bourdieu calls “symbolic subversion.” Symbolic subversion is the act of deconstructing and reconstructing mea…
Cutting Edge
Bringing together contributions from workers employed in the new electronics and information industries with work from theorists and economics, politics and science, this title provides an up-to-date analysis of the complex relations between technology and work. Individual essays look at topics including the cyclical nature of a technologically-driven economy, the privatization of knowledge which new information industries demand, and the strateg…
Knowledge in production
The Surprise Examination Paradox
A teacher announces to his students that he intends to give them a surprise examination. That is, on one of the next five (let us say) days he will give them an examination and they will not know which particular day it will be. He wants it to be a surprise, and so if on the morning of the examination the students can display knowledge that it will be that day he will cancel the examination. A bright student claims that the examination is impossi…
Hume's Theory of the Self and its Identity
It is a widely held view among philosophers that Hume's doctrine of personal identity is seriously mistaken, that he makes claims about the existence and nature of personal identity that are clearly false. The strongest statement of this view is to be found in Terence Penelhum's "Hume on Personal Identity." According to Penelhum:What he (Hume) is actually claiming is that we are constantly making a mistake in referring to a person from day to day…
The Times Higher Education ranking product
This paper will examine the Times Higher Education's (THE) World University Rankings as a corporate media product. A number of empirical studies have critiqued the methodology of the THE, yet individuals, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and governments continue to use them for decision-making. This paper analyses the influence of rankings through the concepts of mediatization and visualisation. To this end, this paper will examine how media …
Hume's Theory of the Self and its Identity
It is a widely held view among philosophers that Hume's doctrine of personal identity is seriously mistaken, that he makes claims about the existence and nature of personal identity that are clearly false. The strongest statement of this view is to be found in Terence Penelhum's "Hume on Personal Identity." According to Penelhum:What he (Hume) is actually claiming is that we are constantly making a mistake in referring to a person from day to day…
The murder of George Floyd and the mediatization of solidarity by top-ranked universities
This paper is a critical discourse analysis of the responses by Harvard and Oxford to the murder of George Floyd. Findings point to how the two institutions visually separate stated commitments to equity and their identities as world-class institutions. The official university response is compared and contrasted to student media, The New York Times and The Guardian. Mediatization provides a framework for looking at the multiple logics that elite …
Responding to the Covid-19 pandemic
Knowledge in production
Hume's Theory of the Self and its Identity
It is a widely held view among philosophers that Hume's doctrine of personal identity is seriously mistaken, that he makes claims about the existence and nature of personal identity that are clearly false. The strongest statement of this view is to be found in Terence Penelhum's "Hume on Personal Identity." According to Penelhum:What he (Hume) is actually claiming is that we are constantly making a mistake in referring to a person from day to day…
The Surprise Examination Paradox
A teacher announces to his students that he intends to give them a surprise examination. That is, on one of the next five (let us say) days he will give them an examination and they will not know which particular day it will be. He wants it to be a surprise, and so if on the morning of the examination the students can display knowledge that it will be that day he will cancel the examination. A bright student claims that the examination is impossi…
Knowledge in production
Cutting Edge
Bringing together contributions from workers employed in the new electronics and information industries with work from theorists and economics, politics and science, this title provides an up-to-date analysis of the complex relations between technology and work. Individual essays look at topics including the cyclical nature of a technologically-driven economy, the privatization of knowledge which new information industries demand, and the strateg…
Spectacle and Symbolic Subversion
I use the concepts of spectacle and symbolic subversion to analyze three student videos about the war on Iraq and consumerism. I argue that Debord's concept of spectacle provides a powerful theory for examining the erasure of histories and the obsession with the consumption of images. However, unlike Debord, I argue there is room for what Bourdieu calls “symbolic subversion.” Symbolic subversion is the act of deconstructing and reconstructing mea…
The Times Higher Education ranking product
This paper will examine the Times Higher Education's (THE) World University Rankings as a corporate media product. A number of empirical studies have critiqued the methodology of the THE, yet individuals, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and governments continue to use them for decision-making. This paper analyses the influence of rankings through the concepts of mediatization and visualisation. To this end, this paper will examine how media …
The murder of George Floyd and the mediatization of solidarity by top-ranked universities
This paper is a critical discourse analysis of the responses by Harvard and Oxford to the murder of George Floyd. Findings point to how the two institutions visually separate stated commitments to equity and their identities as world-class institutions. The official university response is compared and contrasted to student media, The New York Times and The Guardian. Mediatization provides a framework for looking at the multiple logics that elite …
Media and government framing of asylum seekers and migrant workers in Canada during the Covid-19 pandemic
One understudied area of adult education and lifelong learning is the role of media as educator and policy player. This article describes how the authors used critical discourse analysis to examine how asylum seekers, migrant workers and their advocates have challenged long-standing discursive framings of them as benefactors of Canadian generosity, criminals, burdens or victims – during the first ten months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis …
Responding to the Covid-19 pandemic
Investigating an Assessment Design that Prevents Students from Using ChatGPT as the Sole Basis to Pass Assessment at the Tertiary Level
This paper investigated how to design undergraduate assessments that could not be adequately answered by ChatGPT. The paper was embedded in the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy as a theoretical model. ChatGPT has presented significant challenges to lecturers when setting assessments at the tertiary level. There is enormous potential for students to attempt to use ChatGPT to write and pass assessments. Design Based Research formed the basis of this paper’…
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