Research should be a citizen’s right to knowledge tools, not an academic monopoly

Evidence

The Indian anthropologist Arjun Appadurai recently made an important call to rethink research beyond the walls of academia. He proposes that we think of research in terms of the “right to the tools through which any citizen can systematically increase the stock of knowledge that they consider most vital to their survival as human beings and to their claims as citizens.” — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 636

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reading project’s broader decolonial and knowledge-sovereignty concerns; resonates with Freirean pedagogy traditions the reader has engaged elsewhere. — connects to: Monopoly over knowledge means controlling the paradigm, not just data — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 743; The spectator theory of knowledge denies the public a creative role — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 374; Intellectual work must intervene in the world, distinct from academic work — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 259 (+2 more)
• SEED: Angle: contrasting Appadurai’s right-to-knowledge-tools framing with the attention-economy’s reduction of users to data inputs - who owns the instruments of knowing?

Broader Connections

• Mechanized knowledge creates monopolies that endanger freedom of thought #corroborates (0.85) — Harold Innis, The Bias of Communication, 1123
• Monopoly over knowledge means controlling the paradigm, not just data #expands (0.82) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 743
• Intellectual work must intervene in the world, distinct from academic work #corroborates (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 259
• The spectator theory of knowledge denies the public a creative role #corroborates (0.78) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 374