Abstract

RODRIGUEZ MEDINA, Leandro. A geopolitics of Open Access: Information, Software and Reading. Estud. sociol [online]. 2019, vol.37, n.111, pp.727-755.  Epub Feb 20, 2020. ISSN 2448-6442.  https://doi.org/10.24201/es.2019v37n111.1708.

The call for open access to scientific literature has been generalized recently. From national councils for science and technology to universities to inter-government organization, the main actors in global knowledge production seem to agree that the future of knowledge circulation and use depends on open access to it. In this article, first I explore the context in which we should frame this call: the knowledge asymmetries. Then, the consequences of open access for knowledge, data, and information production and consumption are analyzed. As an answer to those consequences, new epistemic practices are described: softwarization of data processing and strategic reading.

Keywords : open access; circulation of knowledge; software.