La transformación neoliberal de la ciencia: El caso de las Humanidades Digitales

The impacts of neoliberal policies and practices are producing the most important transformation of contemporary science and academia since the mid twentieth century. Neoliberal scientific policies have placed more emphasis on the creation of commercial value than on the achievement of social welfar...

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Autor: Aibar, Eduard
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Repositorio:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC
OAI Identifier:oai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/101702
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10609/101702
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Neoliberalism
Commodification of Knowledge
Privatization of Science
Tecnocentrism
Data Neutrality
Neoliberalismo
Mercantilización del conocimiento
Privatización de la ciencia
Tecnocentrismo
Neutralidad de los datos
Technocracy
Neoliberalisme
Tecnocràcia
Tecnocracia
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Sumario:The impacts of neoliberal policies and practices are producing the most important transformation of contemporary science and academia since the mid twentieth century. Neoliberal scientific policies have placed more emphasis on the creation of commercial value than on the achievement of social welfare or the generation of knowledge; the use of patents has been encouraged more than the open dissemination of knowledge and private investment has been promoted in universities and research projects developed by its researchers, in order to favour those lines of research of greater commercial application and with higher expectations of economic return. This work offers, on the one hand, a synthetic and structured overview of these transformations, with special emphasis on those changes that affect the methods, objects and products of scientific activity. The existing literature on these topics focuses, preferably, on the natural or 'hard' sciences -particularly on biomedicine- so the second objective of this work is to discuss the emergence of this type of phenomena in a much less studied area: the humanities. In particular, we will focus on the so-called 'digital humanities'.