The (Surplus) Value of Scientific Communication
(1996) The (Surplus) Value of Scientific Communication. Review of Information Science 1(2).
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Abstract
In research on scientific communication there are above all theory-less and formal/natural scientific models of scientific communication. These are juxtaposed to social-scientific, power-sensitive models (Elias, Bourdieu, Merton). The (surplus) value of scientific communication can be variously understood: either as inherent surplus values in the sense of potential effects of stimulation, synergy, critique, quality control; or as symbolic surplus value in the sense of symbolic capital (Bourdieu) which is adapted by scientists or respectively groups of scientists and so further reinforces the social disparities in sciences with which they have contact (Matthew Effect).
| Keywords: | scientific communication, surplus value, Elias N., Bourdieu P., Merton R.K., Matthew effect, sociology of scientific communication |
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| Subjects: | H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HL. Databases and database Networking. L. Information technology and library technology. > LB. Computer networking. B. Information use and sociology of information. > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion. |
| ID Code: | 8670 |
| Deposited By: | Theis, Wolfgang |
| Deposited On: | 07 February 2007 |
| Alternative Locations: | http://www.iwp.uni-linz.ac.at/lxe/wt2k/pdf/SurplusValueScienComm.pdf, http://www.inf-wiss.uni-konstanz.de/RIS/1996iss02_01/articles01/02.html |
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