The Internet in Undergraduate Management Education: A Concern for Neophytes Among Metaphors
Open Access
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Pluto Journals in Prometheus
- Vol. 17 (4), 437-450
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08109029908632121
Abstract
This paper presents an alternative perspective of the pedagogical and other merits of the Internet in undergraduate management education. It highlights the importance of sensitising management students to the ideological character of the Internet and to the Internet's capacity for altering relationships, power structures and ways of ‘managing’ organisations. The need for there to be a critical appreciation of the effects of metonymy and metaphor when the Internet is being considered for use in undergraduate management education is emphasised. The notion that the Internet is an unparalleled conduit of pedagogically-related excellence is challenged and implications are analysed. Metaphors about the Internet and metaphors transported by the Internet are discussed in order to develop a better appreciation of the Internet's limitations as a technology ‘whose full advantage is [purportedly] to be realized’.Keywords
This publication has 24 references indexed in Scilit:
- At the Heart of It All: The Concept of PresenceJournal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 2006
- Money, Meaning, and MoralityAmerican Behavioral Scientist, 1998
- Student Preferences for Cybersearch Strategies: Impact on Critical Evaluation of SourcesJournal of Education for Business, 1998
- Hyper in 20th Century Culture: The Dialectics of Transition from Modernism to PostmodernismPostmodern Culture, 1996
- EVA™: FAST AND FANTASYJournal of Applied Corporate Finance, 1994
- Capital-Budgeting Systems and Capabilities Investments in U.S. Companies after the Second World WarBusiness History Review, 1994
- Linking Teaching and Research: A Critical InquiryThe Journal of Higher Education, 1992
- Root Metaphor in the Old and New Industrial RelationsBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, 1990
- Transcendental Nonsense, Metaphoric Reasoning, and the Cognitive Stakes for LawUniversity of Pennsylvania Law Review, 1989
- Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense IntellectualsSigns: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1987