Mapping rentiership and assetisation in the digitalisation of education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21785362 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Janja Komljenovic (0000-0001-5951-5189, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author), K Birch (0000-0003-2881-4623, York University), Sam Sellar (0000-0002-2840-5021, University of South Australia) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-14 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Learning Media and Technology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1743-9884 • E-ISSN: 1743-9892 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17439884.2025.2469559 |
| OpenAlex | W4407999563 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 57 |
Global economies have changed significantly over the last two decades. The rise of rentiership and assetisation has fundamentally changed the way we value and govern things and societies (Birch and
Business · Economic growth · Economics · Educational technology · Higher education · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Technology integration · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Psychology
World Yearbook of Education 2016
Neo-Liberalism and Marketisation
The Bologna Process and the Lisbon Research Agenda
Assetization
Automating Learning Situations in EdTech
The rise of education rentiers
Big EdTech
The human labour of school data
The future of value in digitalised higher education
Turning universities into data-driven organisations
Data as asset? The measurement, governance, and valuation of digital personal data by Big Tech
Assetization and the Logic of Venture Capital, or Why Facebook Does not ‘Feel’ Like a Monopoly to Zuckerberg
Transgressing local, national, global spheres
From philanthropy to business
Assetization and the ‘new asset geographies’
Defetishizing the asset form
Edu-business within the Triple Helix. Value production through assetization of educational research
Introduction
Investing in imagined digital futures
The politics of assetization
When public policy ‘fails’ and venture capital ‘saves’ education
Assets and assetization in financialized capitalism
Reflexive expectations in innovation financing
The dynamics of ‘market-making’ in higher education
Imagined Futures
Assetization as a mode of techno-economic governance
Technoscience Rent
Rethinking Value in the Bio-economy
Studytalk in marketised higher education
Rentier Capitalism
The Right to Teach in a Hyper-Digital Age
Self-Appreciation; or, The Aspirations of Human Capital
The Platformization of the Web
The Capitalization of Almost Everything
Nudge goes to Silicon Valley
The mutability of economic things
The challenges of assets
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |