This book advances a critical political economy approach to Ed Tech and analyses the economic, political and ideological structures and social power relations that shape the Ed Tech industries and drive Ed Tech’s development and diffusion. Particular attention is paid to the integration of Ed Tech with some of the most contentious developments of our time, including platformization and data-veillance, the automation of work and labor, and globalization-imperialism.By using a political economy of communication approach, this book will be of value to anyone interested in the current transformations of capitalism, the State, higher education and online learning in the digital age.