The (Surplus) Value of Scientific Communication

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1996

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"In research on scientific communication there are above all theory-less and formal technical/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 the sciences with which they have contact (Matthew effect)."

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