Reimagining Open Science Through a Feminist Lens – Denisse Alejandra – Medium
peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-12-27
Summary:
"Today I will talk about what it could mean to reimagine open science from a feminist perspective — a question we have been exploring at OCSDNet over the past few months....
Our position was that much of the Open Science discourse and practices, particularly at the policy-making and institutional level, frame open science as a technology-enabled means to produce more productive, efficient and competitive science. One of the main critiques we put forth was that this framing was biased in favor of a very utilitarian conception of science that looks to incentivize knowledge production for the sake of innovation and international competitiveness, while losing sight of other equally important functions served by research and knowledge production — such as attending to social challenges or equipping citizens to access their fundamental rights...."