Michael Kwet

922 total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 449 citations indexed

About

Michael Kwet is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Kwet has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 449 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Strategy and Management, 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 2 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Michael Kwet's work include Digital Platforms and Economics (3 papers), Legal Issues in South Africa (2 papers) and Digital Education and Society (1 paper). Michael Kwet is often cited by papers focused on Digital Platforms and Economics (3 papers), Legal Issues in South Africa (2 papers) and Digital Education and Society (1 paper). Michael Kwet collaborates with scholars based in United States and South Africa. Michael Kwet's co-authors include Paul Prinsloo and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Media Literacy Education, Teaching in Higher Education and First Monday.

In The Last Decade

Michael Kwet

11 papers receiving 404 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Digital colonialism: US empire and the new imperialism in the Global South

2019 279 citations Michael Kwet Race & Class profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Kwet United States	6	143	83	66	61	47	12	449
Sybren Heyndels Belgium	5	242 1.7×	73 0.9×	71 1.1×	27 0.4×	77 1.6×	8	566
Jillet Sarah Sam India	4	194 1.4×	71 0.9×	61 0.9×	19 0.3×	60 1.3×	9	426
Amelia Acker United States	13	199 1.4×	130 1.6×	27 0.4×	25 0.4×	45 1.0×	57	518
Benjamin H. Bratton United States	7	247 1.7×	70 0.8×	82 1.2×	14 0.2×	48 1.0×	14	607
Amy B. Woszczynski United States	9	170 1.2×	93 1.1×	26 0.4×	76 1.2×	14 0.3×	32	490
Jason Schultz United States	8	213 1.5×	98 1.2×	71 1.1×	46 0.8×	147 3.1×	34	582
Jennifer Light United States	10	246 1.7×	41 0.5×	57 0.9×	76 1.2×	33 0.7×	33	549
Richard A. Spinello United States	13	182 1.3×	102 1.2×	46 0.7×	25 0.4×	67 1.4×	47	523
Han Ei Chew United States	9	96 0.7×	70 0.8×	39 0.6×	31 0.5×	23 0.5×	21	353
David Nemer United States	14	222 1.6×	207 2.5×	79 1.2×	47 0.8×	21 0.4×	53	675

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Kwet

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michael Kwet. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michael Kwet based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Michael Kwet. Michael Kwet is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Kwet, Michael. (2022). The Digital Tech Deal: a socialist framework for the twenty-first century. Race & Class. 63(3). 63–84. 4 indexed citations

2.

Kwet, Michael & Paul Prinsloo. (2020). The ‘smart’ classroom: a new frontier in the age of the smart university. Teaching in Higher Education. 25(4). 510–526. 96 indexed citations

3.

Kwet, Michael. (2020). Social Media Socialism: People’s Tech and Decolonization for a Global Society in Crisis. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

4.

Kwet, Michael. (2020). Surveillance in South Africa: From Skin Branding to Digital Colonialism. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations

5.

Kwet, Michael. (2020). Fixing Social Media: Toward a Democratic Digital Commons. 5(1). 1 indexed citations

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Kwet, Michael. (2020). A Digital Tech New Deal: Digital Socialism, Decolonization, and Reparations for a Sustainable Global Economy. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Kwet, Michael. (2020). Fixing Social Media: Toward a Democratic Digital Commons. Journal of Media Literacy Education. 5(1). 16 indexed citations

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Kwet, Michael. (2019). Digital Colonialism: South Africa’s Education Transformation in the Shadow of Silicon Valley. SSRN Electronic Journal. 12 indexed citations

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Kwet, Michael. (2019). Digital colonialism: US empire and the new imperialism in the Global South. Race & Class. 60(4). 3–26. 279 indexed citations breakdown →

10.

Kwet, Michael. (2018). Digital Colonialism: US Empire and the New Imperialism in the Global South. SSRN Electronic Journal. 17 indexed citations

11.

Kwet, Michael. (2017). Operation Phakisa Education: Why A Secret? Mass Surveillance, Inequality, and Race in South Africa's Emerging National E-Education System. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

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Kwet, Michael. (2017). Operation Phakisa Education: Why a secret? Mass surveillance, inequality, and race in South Africa's emerging national e-education system. First Monday. 13 indexed citations

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