In this episode of Interventions from the Global South, host Mohan Dutta and guest Rafael Grohmann take a deep dive into what it means to engage with the academic journal landscape as a researcher in the Global South, centered in the context of open data access in Brazil. They discuss what can be lost in translation as journal texts move in and out of English and analyze how the communication research landscapes in Latin American countries have benefited over time by prioritizing multilingual translation and eliminating article processing costs. Take a listen to learn more about how researchers are connecting publication processes to the larger global context of digital sovereignty, and how workers and academics are both working to build their own platforms in order to engage directly with questions on how to best share their own work.

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Featuring

Mohan Dutta

Rafael Grohmann

Sponsor:

Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University Qatar

More from the host & speakers:

Mohan Dutta

Professor, Dean's Chair | School of Communication, Journalism, and Marketing

Director, Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE)

Massey University, Aotearoa, New Zealand

Twitter - @mjdutt @CAREMasseyNZ

Rafael Grohmann

Assistant Professor | Communication

Director, DigiLabour Research Lab

Unisinos University, São Leopoldo, Brazil

Twitter - @grohmann_rafael @DigiLabour

Papers/Journal referred to in episode:

Martin-Barbero, Jesús. Communication, Culture, and Hegemony: From the Media to Mediations. London: SAGE Publications, 1993. Print.