Science Communication and Open Access: The Critique of the Political Economy of Capitalist Academic Publishers as Ideology Critique

Manfred Knoche

doi:10.31269/triplec.v18i2.1183

Science Communication and Open Access: The Critique of the Political Economy of Capitalist Academic Publishers as Ideology Critique

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Abstract

Starting from a theoretical and methodological foundation of an academic ideology critique, the production, distribution and valorisation of science communication will be analysed in exemplary fashion. The focus is on the criticism of publishing houses’ business models in the sphere of open Access publishing. These models are propagated and implemented by science and politics. Thus, academic publications continue to be traded as commodities. The existing relationships of power and domination are thereby reproduced. In contrast, the emancipatory potential of non-commercial science communication based on the digitalisation of production and distribution is shown.

Translated title of the contribution	Wissenschaftskommunikation und Open Access: Kritik der politischen Ökonomie kapitalistischer Wissenschaftsverlage als Ideologiekritik
Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	508-534
Number of pages	27
Journal	TripleC
Volume	18
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v18i2.1183 https://doi.org/10.36730/ideologiekritik.2019.8
Publication status	Published - 25 May 2020

Keywords

Open Access
Kommunikationswissenschaft
Politische Ökonomie
Ideologiekritik
Kapitalismus

Fields of Science and Technology Classification 2012

508 Media and Communication Sciences

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Science Communication and Open Access: The Critique of the Political Economy of Capitalist Academic Publishers as Ideology Critique

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