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Shahjahan, Riyad A.; Grimm, Adam; Allen, Ryan M. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
Despite the ubiquity of global university rankings coverage in media and academia, a concerted attempt to investigate the role of social media in ranking entrepreneurship remains absent. By drawing on an affect lens, we critically examine the social media activities of two commercial rankers: Times Higher Education (THE) and Quacquarelli Symonds…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Consumer Education, Achievement Rating, Institutional Characteristics
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Shahjahan, Riyad A.; Bylsma, Paul E.; Singai, Chetan – Comparative Education, 2022
Global university rankings (GURs) have garnered increasing media attention since their inception. Yet to date, a concerted attempt to offer an affect lens -- emotions, responses, reactions and feelings that are relational and transpersonal -- underlying the mediatisation of GURs remains absent. Drawing on affect theories, we analysed the Indian…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Reputation
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Shahjahan, Riyad A.; Estera, Annabelle L.; Bae, Sohyeon; Sonneveldt, Erin L. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
Amid debates about global university rankings (GURs), very few have closely examined how GURs' media outlets construct meanings of higher education (HE) in their visual representations. We critically examine 135 publicly available visual media (photographs) in the Times Higher Education (THE) and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) websites to uncover the…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Universities, Higher Education, Photography
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Shahjahan, Riyad A.; Grimm, Adam T. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2023
Methodological nationalism (MN) pervades higher education scholarship and practice, particularly in the arena of globalisation of higher education (HE) (Shahjahan and Kezar 2013). MN refers to the assumption that national boundaries define the natural category or unit of analysis for society. Drawing on affect theories, this conceptual article…
Descriptors: Correlation, Nationalism, Global Approach, Higher Education
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Estera, Annabelle; Shahjahan, Riyad A. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
Amid debates about the role and impact of global university rankings (GURs), very few have closely examined how GURs media outlets construct meanings of higher education (HE) in their visual representations. We critically examine publicly available visual media of students in the "Times Higher Education World University Rankings" and…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Reputation, Periodicals, Universities
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Shahjahan, Riyad A.; Morgan, Clara – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2016
While scholars have analyzed global higher education (HE) competition, they have largely failed to address how global spaces of equivalence are tied both to coloniality and to competition. Using the OECD's International Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) as a case study and drawing on concepts from coloniality including…
Descriptors: Competition, International Education, Outcomes of Education, Political Influences