The moral economy of open accessEuropean Journal of Social Theory - Jana Bacevic, Chris Muellerleile, 2017

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Summary:

Abstract: "Digital technologies have made access to and profit from scientific publications hotly contested issues. Debates over open access (OA), however, rarely extend from questions of distribution to questions of how OA is transforming the politics of academic knowledge production. This article argues that the movement towards OA rests on a relatively stable moral episteme that positions different actors involved in the economy of OA (authors, publishers, the general public), and most importantly, knowledge itself. The analysis disentangles the ontological and moral side of these claims, showing how OA changes the meaning of knowledge from a good in the economic, to good in the moral sense. This means OA can be theorized as the moral economy of digital knowledge production. Ultimately, using Boltanski and Thévenot’s work on justification, the article reflects on how this moral economy frames the political subjectivity of actors and institutions involved in academic knowledge production."

Link:

https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431017717368

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Tags:

oa.new oa.advocacy oa.debates oa.strategies oa.economics_of

Date tagged:

07/07/2017, 14:27

Date published:

07/07/2017, 10:27