Secret and research

Journal Title: ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies - Year 2013, Vol 6, Issue 2

Abstract

The postures of secrecy and revelation maintain our common relational dynamics between sharing and not sharing. Science, which has become the dominant form of knowledge, is a rational and empirical knowledge sharing. For this purpose, the knowledge articulates languages, if possible unambiguous, spaces of rational deliberation, technical devices and resources of the imagination. This activity meets other logics called power, prestige, status, profit, customer, blind adherence and revealed truth, in which the postures of secret invite themselves massively. The codes of ethics attempt to regulate this mix of contradictory logics by setting standards of scientific exchanges, recalling the person rights and particularly the subjects observed rights, protecting the working conditions of the researcher, preserving its autonomy from funders and policy makers, and ensuring the dissemination of its results.

Authors and Affiliations

André PETITAT| Professeur des universités, Université de Lausanne, SUISSE

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André PETITAT (2013). Secret and research. ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies, 6(2), 25-43. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-9139