What are you reading? – 24 October 2019
A fortnightly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Facebook, the Media and Democracy: Big Tech, Small State?, by Leighton Andrews
Ivor Gaber is left wanting more in this account of how Facebook became a linchpin of today’s ‘surveillance capitalism’
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Beyond the Valley: How Innovators around the World Are Overcoming Inequality and Shaping the Technologies of Tomorrow, by Ramesh Srinivasan
Nathan Schneider would like more detail about how we can escape the embrace of the technological giants
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Harassed: Gender, Bodies and Ethnographic Research, by Rebecca Hanson and Patricia Richards
Book of the week: Rachel O’Neill praises a sobering study of how we can combat the sheer amount of abuse female researchers experience in the field
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Interview with Aanchal Malhotra
The artist and oral art historian discusses what objects can tell us about the past, the importance of fieldwork and the calming influence of a good clean
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Ian Bradley, 1943-2019
Tributes paid to an academic ‘free spirit’ who applied economic principles to gambling and car parking permits
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The house that HE built
Some are wary property development will detract from core missions. But it can provide helpful home improvements and boost community partnerships
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Oxford professor ‘failed to properly acknowledge’ Chinese colleagues
Collaborators criticise lack of sanction against Anna Lora-Wainwright, but internal investigation finds she did not intend to deceive
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Quota rule stymies overseas students’ work experience
Internship restriction ‘makes no sense’, says international education expert
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The week in higher education – 24 October 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Graphene Nobelist: don’t ask universities to drive innovation
Sir Konstantin Novoselov sparks debate over who should be responsible for commercialising research discoveries
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Noam Chomsky in free speech row over UCL ‘antisemitism’ rules
Linguist ‘at a loss for words’ over university guidelines on what can and cannot be said about Jews
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UK names 14 AI doctoral training centres in £370 million PhD plan
Investment will create 2,700 new PhD places in biosciences and AI research
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Homeless and at home: the researcher who lived among squatters
Steph Grohmann’s ‘revenge eviction’ gave her vivid, first-hand experience of the trials and consolations of occupying unused buildings, finds Matthew Reisz