Public Administration Studies: The Digital Trajectory
<p>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,...
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Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
2022-12-01
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| description | <p>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.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj-art-f05af9b9a2bc4cb1b54029eb852d926c2025-07-03T07:31:33ZengBabes-Bolyai University, Cluj-NapocaTransylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences1842-28452022-12-0118SI405110.24193/tras.SI2022.4766Public Administration Studies: The Digital TrajectoryWolfgang Drechsler0Distinguished Visiting Professor of Public Value, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar; Professor of Governance, Ragnar Nurkse Department, TalTech, Tallinn, Estonia; Honorary Professor of University College London, London, UK; Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.<p>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.</p>https://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/712aialgorithmsgamingictmoocsonline teachingpublic administrationzoom. |
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