Visions on the openness of science. The discourse of scientific production and communication from the global north and south

Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to carry out a discursive analysis of two proposals for the opening of science, one from the North called Open Science and the other from the South called Flock Society or “BuenConocer”, which is related to the new economic matrix where the discourse on knowledge as a good gives a different protagonism to international scientific communication. The corpus to be analyzed is: the UNESCO 2021 recommendation and the open letter and Flock Society project in 2014. The theoretical-methodological tools include categories from the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and the Multimedial and Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MMCDA). We start from the hypothesis that the discourse on Open Science is hegemonic to legitimize a publishing monopoly. The Flock one is based on a contrary ideology that highlightshedominant model’s asymmetries thatonly places knowledge at the center of production and economic circulatily.