Teresa Swist, Liam Magee (2017).
Academic Publishing and its Digital Binds: Beyond the Paywall towards
Ethical Executions of Code. Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural
Research 9(3), 240-259. https://doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1793240
In this article we explore various constraints
and potentials of academic publishing in the digital age. Advancement of
digital platforms and their expansive reach amplify the underlying
tensions of institutional and scholarly change. A key affordance of
these platforms is that of speed: rapidly distributing the outputs of a
precaritised profession and responding to pressures to publish as well
as the profit motive of publishers. On the one hand, these systems make
possible alternative modes of contributory content and peer-production
for supporting the commons. On the other, they turn all too readily into
privatising devices for contracting labour and profit in the corporate
sector and, within the academy, for accentuating subtle power effects.
Drawing upon platform studies and integrating insights from political
philosophy and property law, our article seeks to problematise neat
binaries of possession and dispossession associated with the sector. We
examine in particular how co-existing and emergent socio-technical
circuits—what we term digital binds—modulate the political economy of
academic publishing on a number of scales. These entangled binds
constrain but also indicate mechanisms for opening up new possibilities.
We introduce three ethical executions of code towards this end:
dissuading, detouring, and disrupting. Together, these mechanisms show
how mutually beneficial boundaries can be drawn for designing otherwise:
by blocking dominant systems and bargaining for fairer practices;
exploring sanctioned and unsanctioned systems which offer more diverse
publishing pathways; and, disrupting systemic processes and profits
towards more inclusive and equitable conditions.
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