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Open access and closed discourses: Constructing open access as a development issue.
- Author(s):
- Jutta Haider (see profile)
- Date:
- 2008
- Group(s):
- CityLIS, Library & Information Science
- Subject(s):
- Information science, Library science, Postcolonialism
- Item Type:
- Thesis
- Institution:
- Department of Information Science, City University London
- Tag(s):
- discourse analysis, Foucault, open access, Open Science, scholarly communication, Library and information science, Scholarly communication
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6XT15
- Abstract:
- This thesis investigates the connection between open access – the free online availability and distribution of scientific and scholarly publications – and the ‘developing world’ from a post- development perspective. It takes a discourse analytical approach, drawing predominantly on Michel Foucault’s understanding of discourse and on postdevelopment studies and theory. It aims to answer the following questions: - Which notions of science, of development and progress, of knowledge as well as of information and technology are capitalised on in the open access debates and in which way are they shaped as a consequence? - Which discursive effects can be established, what are the results and of which kind are they?
- Notes:
- Unpublished doctoral thesis
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
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