#PlatformPolitics

Z. K. XaytheXaytheZK
2025-11-20

36 hours of silence on one language.
Support replied in policy-scented fear.
Screenshots spread, then vanished.
Patch dropped.
“Just a bug.”
Sure.
I kept the screenshot
a receipt for a silence that wasn’t accidental.

Merit, Measurement, and Moral Order: The Market Imaginary in Education

social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc4

2025-07-04

What kind of digital university are we building when platforms and systems shape pedagogy, participation, and institutional purpose?

In my latest post, I argue for reimagining the digital university as a democratic pedagogical institution.

Read it here:
e-learning-rules.com/blog/0039

A retro-futuristic digital university with Greco-Roman columns, bathed in golden light amid swirling cosmic clouds and planets, evoking imagination, autonomy, and the reinvention of education.
The Internet is Cracktheinternetiscrack
2025-06-11

Mainstream media didn’t widen the public sphere—the internet did.

and didn’t rise through newsrooms—they broke through online.

New episode of The Internet is Crack: Alice Marwick joins us to explore how platforms shape speech, distort discourse, and empower protest.

🎧youtu.be/VQvzxDak_Z0

2025-06-05

Universities depend on digital infrastructure they do not control. What if we built something different?

My latest blog post explores open source tools, federated platforms, and community ownership in reimagining the digital university.

Read here:
e-learning-rules.com/blog/0032

A retro-futuristic painting of a human and a robot seated at a console, gazing at each other, their hands near a glowing interface, evoking tension between organic and technological agency.
2025-05-31

Who shapes the platforms we are told to use in education?

Digital tools are never neutral. They carry assumptions about pedagogy, power, and control.

In my latest blog post, I argue that digital policy is pedagogical. Educators need to engage with it, not just implement it.

Read the post:
e-learning-rules.com/blog/0031

A surreal, retro-futuristic illustration of educators navigating a digital landscape shaped by data streams, control panels, and towering abstract systems, symbolising policy as a pedagogical struggle.

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