Publications
2023
Williamson, B & Komljenovic, J 2023, 'Investing in imagined digital futures: The techno-financial ‘futuring’ of edtech investors in higher education', Critical Studies in Education, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 234-249. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2022.2081587
[Publication details] Williamson, B, Komljenovic, J & Gulson, KN 2023, World yearbook of education 2024: Digitalisation of education in the era of algorithms, automation and artificial intelligence. Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003359722
[Publication details] Williamson, B, Macgilchrist, F & Potter, J 2023, 'Re-examining AI, automation and datafication in education', Learning, Media and Technology, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2023.2167830
[Publication details] Williamson, B 2023, 'The social life of AI in education', International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-023-00342-5
[Publication details] Williamson, B 2023, The cloud campus: Imagining and investing in the digital future of higher education. in MA Carrigan, H Moscovitz, M Martini & SL Robertson (eds), Building the Post-Pandemic University: Imagining, Contesting and Materializing Higher Education Futures. Political Science and Public Policy 2023, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 60-77. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802204575.00012
[Publication details] Komljenovic, J, Williamson, B, Eynon, R & Davies, HC 2023, 'When public policy ‘fails’ and venture capital ‘saves’ education: Edtech investors as economic and political actors', Globalisation, Societies and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2023.2272134
[Publication details] Williamson, B, Komljenovic, J & Gulson, KN 2023, Introduction: Digitalisation of education in the era of algorithms, automation and artificial intelligence. in B Williamson, J Komljenovic & K Gulson (eds), World Yearbook of Education 2024: Digitalisation of Education in the Era of Algorithms, Automation and Artificial Intelligence. 1 edn, World Yearbook of Education, Routledge, London, pp. 1-19. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003359722-1
[Publication details] Williamson, B, Eynon, R, Knox, J & Davies, HC 2023, Critical perspectives on AI in education: Political economy, discrimination, commercialization, governance and ethics. in B du Boulay, A Mitrovic & K Yacef (eds), Handbook of Artificial Intelligence in Education. Elgar Handbooks in Education, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 555-573. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800375413.00037
[Publication details] 2022
Williamson, B 2022, Smart citizen apprentices: Digital urbanism and coding as techno-solutions to the city. in M Currie, J Knox & C McGregor (eds), Data Justice and the Right to the City. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 165-184. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474492973-015
[Publication details] Davies, H, Eynon, R, Komljenovic, J & Williamson, B 2022, Investigating the financial power brokers behind EdTech. in S Livingstone & K Pothong (eds), Education Data Futures: Critical, Regulatory and Practical Reflections. 5Rights Foundation, pp. 80-92. <https://educationdatafutures.digitalfuturescommission.org.uk/essays/competing-interests-in-education-data/investigation-financial-power-brokers-edtech>
[Publication details] Williamson, B, Gulson, KN, Perrotta, C & Witzenberger, K 2022, 'Amazon and the new global connective architectures of education governance', Harvard Educational Review, vol. 92, no. 2, pp. 231-256. https://doi.org/10.17763/1943-5045-92.2.231
[Publication details] Williamson, B 2022, Governing through infrastructural control: Artificial intelligence and cloud computing in the data-intensive state. in W Housley, A Edwards, R Beneito-Montagut & R Fitzgerald (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Digital Society. 1st edn, SAGE Publications, pp. 521-540. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529783193
[Publication details] Williamson, B 2022, 'Big EdTech', Learning, Media and Technology, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 157-162. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2022.2063888
[Publication details] Gallagher, M, Xu, J & Williamson, B 2022, What education problems can technology not address? Which ones does it exacerbate?. <https://world-education-blog.org/2022/04/25/what-education-problems-can-technology-not-address-which-ones-does-it-exacerbate/?utm_campaign=3132374_Copy%20of%20MHSES%20Staff%20Roundup%20-%2029%20April%202022%20%289%29&utm_medium=email&utm_source=College%20of%20Arts%2C%20Humanities%20%26%20Social%20Sciences%2C%20The%20University%20of%20Edinburgh&dm_i=2MQP,1V4YE,714NQ9,6HOCA,1>
[Publication details] Williamson, B 2022, Afterword: The future of datafication in education? Clouds, bodies and ethics. in Learning to Live with Datafication: Educational Case Studies and Initiatives from Across the World. Taylor & Francis, pp. 209-215. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003136842-13
[Publication details] Macgilchrist, F, Potter, J & Williamson, B 2022, 'Reading internationally: If citing is a political practice, who are we reading and who are we citing?', Learning, Media and Technology, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 407-412. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2022.2140673
[Publication details] 2021
Williamson, B 2021, Automated knowledge discovery: Tracing the frontiers, infrastructures, and practices of education and data science. in C Wyatt-Smith, B Lingard & E Heck (eds), Digital Disruption in Teaching and Testing: Assessments, Big Data, and the Transformation of Schooling. Taylor & Francis, pp. 45-59.
[Publication details] Perrotta, C, Gulson, KN, Williamson, B & Witzenberger, K 2021, 'Automation, APIs and the distributed labour of platform pedagogies in Google Classroom', Critical Studies in Education, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 97-113. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2020.1855597
[Publication details] Macgilchrist, F, Potter, J & Williamson, B 2021, 'Shifting scales of research on learning, media and technology', Learning, Media and Technology, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 369-376. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2021.1994418
[Publication details] Williamson, B, Macgilchrist, F & Potter, J 2021, 'Covid-19 controversies and critical research in digital education', Learning, Media and Technology, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 117-127. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2021.1922437
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