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THE CRISIS OF COLLEGIALITY IN SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATION, AND THE SCIENCE POLICY
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THE CRISIS OF COLLEGIALITY IN SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATION, AND THE SCIENCE POLICY
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S1811-833X0000617-8-1
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Article
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Authors
Alexander Yu. Antonovskiy 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4209-8213
Edition
Volume 57 Issue 3
Pages
6-22
Abstract
The article substantiates that science, thanks to the latest media in the dissemination of scientific communication (especially computer word processing, big data accumulation, mega-science installations, the latest international networking platforms and collaborations), has gone beyond all institutional, organizational, regional, national and partly disciplinary borders. Science as a supranational communication system has reached a complexity that is incompatible with the standards for evaluating scientific work and scientific achievements, which are traditionally carried out in the form of scientific committees, individual examinations and other collegial forms of scientific communication. The collegiality of making the most important decisions regarding the examination of the scientific product itself, the thematic agenda, professional competencies and the resulting distribution of remuneration, reputation, ranks, degrees, grants has exhausted its capabilities to a certain extent. As a result, science turns out to be opaque both for the regulator, who is trying to exercise control over scientific institutions, and for science itself, which in the form of scientific self-government and philosophical reflection of science carries out the function of self-observation and self-description. A working hypothesis is proposed, which states that in response to this crisis of collegiality, reflection and control, new media of communicative success and new organizational forms of scientific communication crystallize in science, which can restore the ability of a scientific system to process its internal and external complexity. These media are represented by a new, social-networked form of scientific expertise and partly scientific work, which will be able to compensate for the lack of self-reflection, both at the organizational level of research institutes and at the level of global control over science as a whole.
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scientific organization, complexity, scientific communication, theory of communication systems
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01.09.2020
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