OPEN YOUR HEART — Simon David Hirsbrunner on reasons why media scholars might be reluctant to open their research data

In the media studies community, open science (OS) is often taken as a synonym for open access publishing. For someone like me, who investigates techno-scientific practice from an epistemological (or ‹STS›) perspective, such a narrow understanding of OS is not very rewarding. As other articles on the Open Media Studies blog have shown, open science goes beyond that and includes approaches such as Open Methodology, Open Source, Open Data, Open Access, Open Peer Review and Open Educational Resources.