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Digital objects as "transducers" in scientific web publishing

Koltzenburg, Claudia (2007) Digital objects as "transducers" in scientific web publishing. International Journal of Feminist Technoscience 1(1).

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Abstract

Scientific web publishing offers an attractive bundle of phenomena for feminist technoscientific investigation. This article focuses on research articles in scientific journals and aims at identifying a range of exclusionary practices in the current publishing system, which need to be critically addressed. For this purpose, the functionalities of digital objects are studied using the analogy of a piezoelectric crystal as a transducer in obstetric ultrasonography (Karen Barad 2001). This is embedded in the idea that scholarly communication, and publishing in particular, is characterized by an economy based on gift-giving-for-recognition.

Keywords:apparatus, boundary practices, digital object, digital object in context, doic, feminist technoscience, file, gift giving, journals, Karen Barad, metadata, open access, research literature, Scholarly communication, scientific publishing, transducer
Subjects:E. Publishing and legal issues. > EZ. None of these, but in this section.
ID Code:13119
Deposited By:Koltzenburg, Claudia
Deposited On:04 April 2008
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