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🗓️ 16 March 2016
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the third ESNA podcast on higher education and science policy. |
0:05.2 | Today's topic is a concept called Science 2.0, which we will be discussing here in Berlin |
0:11.6 | with Professor Philip Murawski, historian and philosopher of economic thought at the University |
0:17.3 | of Notre Dame in the United States. |
0:20.2 | Thank you for joining us, Professor Murawski. |
0:23.0 | You have focused your research on the concept of so-called Science 2.0 |
0:27.5 | and have developed a radical critique of it. |
0:30.3 | First of all, how do you define Science 2.0? |
0:34.1 | In a general way, Science 2.0 is this belief that the Internet is a technological force |
0:41.3 | that is inexorably going to transform all the ways that we develop knowledge. |
0:47.3 | Secondly, science is one of the ways that we develop knowledge. |
0:51.3 | But moreover, people who are advocates of science 2.0 |
0:56.0 | also think that there's something wrong with the university and conventional ways of organizing |
1:02.0 | science right now that somehow needs to be fixed, and that's the way they talk. |
1:07.0 | And then finally, when they talk about fixing science, they always talk about openness. |
1:13.6 | Openness is the political solution for basically everything. |
1:17.6 | Social media websites and online services have become an integral part of the work of scientists all over the world. |
1:25.6 | How is this changing the way science and research is done? |
1:29.0 | There are a number of different business startups and special web platforms that exist to change |
1:37.9 | certain parts of science and how the scientists interact. And it can range from anything like |
1:43.7 | Researchgate to |
1:47.0 | something like academia.edu and in fact strangely enough Facebook enters into this too |
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