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Jose Marichal

Jose Marichal

Professor of Political Science

California Lutheran University

Jose Marichal is a professor of political science at California Lutheran University. He specializes in studying the connections between technology and political behavior and identity. Currently, he is working on a book that looks at the damaging effects of algorithms/AI on democracy by creating an “algorithmic mentality” among citizens.

Published Articles

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The Critical Role of Lutheran Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Jose Marichal, Maya Goehner, Tyler Haug

No. 59 · Spring 2024

A Cal Lutheran political science professor and two of his students draw on Rooted and Open to argue that Lutheran higher education is uniquely positioned to stake out a middle path between AI utopianism and AI doom — cultivating a “healthy sense of human limit,” resisting data colonialism, and forming students to see the neighbor rather than the enemy as the world becomes increasingly synthetic.
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Students in the Cloud: Creating Digital Citizens

Jose Marichal

No. 29 · Spring 2009

Marichal weighs the utopian and dystopian views of the “networked information economy,” drawing on Yochai Benkler, Manuel Castells, Henry Jenkins, Cass Sunstein, Robert Putnam, Nicholas Carr, and Andrew Keen to chart the promise and peril of life “in the cloud,” and proposes Aristotle’s intellectual virtue of phronesis—developed through Hubert Dreyfus’s five stages of skill acquisition—as the goal of digital citizenship for college faculty and their students.
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Why Diversity and Civic Engagement Don't Talk to Each Other on College Campuses: The Need for Public Work

Jose Marichal

No. 25 · Spring 2007

Marichal opens with Thurgood Marshall’s line from Milliken v. Bradley and traces the “decoupling” of campus diversity and civic engagement initiatives back to their shared grounding in Benjamin Barber’s “thin” or pluralist democracy. Reviewing CIRCLE data on youth political disengagement, the limits of mandatory volunteerism, and persistent residential segregation, and drawing on Mary Ann Glendon, Lani Guinier, Caryn McTighe Musil, and Richard Rorty, he argues that only Harry Boyte’s notion of “public work” can bind diversity and civic engagement together—and contends that Lutheran colleges, with their understanding of vocation as call into the world, are uniquely positioned to build that infrastructure.

Jose Marichal

Published Articles

The Critical Role of Lutheran Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Students in the Cloud: Creating Digital Citizens

Why Diversity and Civic Engagement Don't Talk to Each Other on College Campuses: The Need for Public Work