Последствия развития открытой науки: риски усиления неравенства в глобальной научной коммуникации

Социологические исследования. 2024. № 10. С. 93–103.

Karikh R.

The concept of open science, which is primarily a fight for free access to scientific knowledge, continues to gain support in the world. One of the goals of the concept is to solve the problems of developing countries and reduce inequality. This essay questions the feasibility of this goal. Presenting science as a world-system, the author describes its current structure in the format of academic colonialism, where the countries of the global North, located in the center of the world-system, dominate the countries of the global South, located closer to the periphery. The consequence of this model is epistemic injustice, which can be corrected in the context of open science. However, modern neoliberal trends in the form of platform capitalism do not allow us to cope with this problem within the framework of the concept in its current form, but only increase the risks of increasing inequality. The essay proposes possible solutions for the implementation of open science in Russia in an inclusive form based on the concept of bibliodiversity.

Keywords: inequality, неравенство, Открытая наука, инклюзия, inclusion, world-systems, мир-система, open science, global South, глобальный Юг, platform capitalism, surveillance capitalism, надзорный капитализм, academic colonialism, epistemic injustice, академический колониализм, платформенный капитализм, эпистемическая несправедливость

Publication based on the results of: The risks of social turbulence and the integrative potential of Russian society (2024)