Drechsler, Wolfgang;
(2022)
Public Administration Studies: The Digital Trajectory.
Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences
, 2022
pp. 40-51.
10.24193/tras.SI2022.4.
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Abstract
This paper asks how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) will influence Public Administration (PA) as an academic discipline in the near future, both in research and teaching. After looking at current ICT phenomena — from AI to gaming — and how PA has taken them up, two critical, interlinked phenomena are then analyzed: MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and their effects, including a review of how the Covid-19 pandemic pushed this kind of teaching, and the current ability of algorithms to write a certain type of texts. These may have the effect to strongly enforce, even lock in, current epistemological tendencies of PA, but they may also give rise to an altogether different kind of development of scholarly inquiry in the discipline and beyond.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Public Administration Studies: The Digital Trajectory |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.24193/tras.SI2022.4 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/tras.si2022.4 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences by TRAS is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | AI; algorithms; gaming; ICT; MOOCs; online teaching; Public Administration; Zoom |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Inst for Innovation and Public Purpose |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10191596 |
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