Abstract

Over the past decade, the rhetoric of'open'has shifted from the fringes of science, education and communication discourses, to the centre. To a greater or lesser extent it is now to be found in the language and policies of research and research funding globally (Fry, Schroeder et al. 2009; Scanlon 2013; Bartling and Friesike 2014; Suber and Darnton 2016). The challenge that the open knowledge movement now faces is one of shifting beyond the advocacy focus that characterised its early phases, towards more critical engagement with the complexity and diversity of open knowledge concepts, movements and organisations operating in diverse national and cultural contexts. Unpacking the role of diversity in increasingly global open knowledge systems will be necessary if the dangers of one size fits all approaches to investments in open knowledge infrastructure, business models and governance frameworks are to …

Date

2018

Authors

Lucy Montgomery, Xiang Ren

Journal

Cultural Science Journal

Volume

10

Issue

1

Pages

17-27

Publisher

DE Gruyter Poland