Buying Search, Buying Students: How Elite U.S. Institutions Employ Paid Search to Practice Academic Capitalism Online

Autor/inn/en	Taylor, Z. W.; Bicak, Ibrahim
Titel	Buying Search, Buying Students: How Elite U.S. Institutions Employ Paid Search to Practice Academic Capitalism Online
Quelle	In: Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 30 (2020) 2, S.271-296 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Taylor, Z. W.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0884-1241
DOI	10.1080/08841241.2020.1731910
Schlagwörter	Student Recruitment; Advertising; Universities; Cost Effectiveness; Private Colleges; Public Colleges; Internet; Reputation; Search Engines; Information Retrieval + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Werbung; University; Universität; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken; Privathochschule; Suchmaschine
Abstract	While academic capitalism pervades many facets of US higher education, this study analyzes paid adwords as a method of academic capitalism in the online marketplace. This article presents findings from a five-month quantitative analysis of paid adwords of the 2018 top "US News & World Report" top 100 national universities. Capturing the Fall 2017 application season, this study investigated how many, when, and what adwords institutions purchase and how cost efficient these adwords were by words-per-click and price-per-click. Data indicate private institutions buy more adwords and pay a greater amount than public institutions but do not generate more traffic from these adwords. Regression analyses find better-ranked institutions generate more traffic from adwords than lower-ranked peers, but similar analyses predicting adwords and cost were not statistically significant. These findings suggest a stratified Internet marketplace, with better-ranked institutions practicing academic capitalism to drive web traffic toward their websites during application season. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01