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Podcast #3 - Science 2.0: An Interview with Philip Mirowski (Notre Dame), 29/06/2015

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🗓️ 16 March 2016

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Philip Mirowski explains how Science 2.0, the introduction of social media and other online services into the world of science, is a 'neoliberal project.' This podcast forms part of a series, produced and disseminated by ESNA Media, on the subject of higher education and science policy. Produced, edited and narrated by Tino Broemme Audio editing by Peter Redmayne Music by Zende Music INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT: Welcome to the third ESNA podcast on higher education and science policy. Today’s topic is a concept called ‘Science 2.0,’ which we will be discussing here in Berlin with Professor Philip Mirowski, historian and philosopher of economic thought at the University of Notre Dame in the United States... FULL TRANSCRIPT HERE http://tinyurl.com/j6xfgc9

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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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