Luis Arboledas-Lérida
Biographic Data
| ID | 277817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luis Arboledas-Lérida |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luis |
| FAMILY NAME | Arboledas-Lérida |
| SIGNATURE | ARBOLEDAS-LÉRIDA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Sevilla |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2392-5885 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Communicating EU-funded projects: A comparison of communication activities in research projects funded under Horizon 2020 and led by Portuguese and Polish institutions
This paper analyses the communication activities conducted within the framework of research projects funded under Horizon 2020, with more than €1M in funding, and led by Portuguese or Polish institutions. A total of 221 initiatives (68 Poland-led and 153 Portugal-led) are examined. The primary finding is that the majority of projects do not engage in communication activities. Web presence is observed in 41.1% of Poland-led projects and 41.8% of P…
Reconsidering the endurance of the ‘Deficit Model’ of science communication: The communication of EU-funded projects as a case study
This paper aims to demonstrate that the endurance of the Deficit Model as a heuristic of science communication practice is rooted in material factors shaping the objective contexts of action that science communicators confront in their daily practices. To achieve this, it draws on 26 semi-structured interviews with communication professionals and other experts who have been directly or indirectly involved in the communication of EU-funded project…
The communication of science within the framework of European Union-funded research projects: Exploring practitioners’ experiences and perceptions
This article aims to advance our understanding of the communication of science conducted within the framework of externally funded research projects, also known as project-based science communication. It deploys semi-structured interviews to explore the experiences and perceptions of 26 communication specialists, project managers and other professionals who have been involved in the Communication & Dissemination Work Packages of Horizon 2020 and …
Moral Depreciation”, “Wear and Tear,” and the Value-Determinations of Knowledge-Intensive Commodities: Recovering Marx’s Original Ideas
The Marxian notions of “wear and tear” and “moral depreciation” have been employed in the scholarly debate on the value-determinations of knowledge-intensive commodities (KICs) to account for their alleged “peculiar cost structure”. The latter refers to the substantial disparity between the high costs incurred in the production of the first unit or “prototype” of KICs, on the one hand, and the relatively negligible costs associated with the gener…
The ‘unavoidable antagonism’ in the ‘academic labour process’: Theorising labour-management relations within academic settings with Marx and the Labour Process Theory
Research management has not been properly conceptualised in the literature addressing the so-called academic labour process. This renders impossible a comprehension of the research-intensive parts of the academic production process in connection with the general determinants of the capitalist relations of production. To address this gap, this paper problematises research management from a Marxist perspective. After presenting the relevant evidenc…
Imagining Technology-Mediated Social Change? A Critique of the Theory of Sociotechnical Imaginaries
The theory of sociotechnical imaginaries (STIs) has become one of the leading theories or paradigms in the social sciences for analysing technological change and the resulting societal transformations. Promising a non-deterministic, agency-centred account of technologically mediated societal change, this perspective has gained traction across multiple fields, from Science and Technology Studies to energy research to science communication. This pa…
Knowledge-Intensive Commodities and the Political Economy of Knowledge Production: A Marxist Critique of the Theory of Knowledge Rents
From formal subsumption under capital to primitive accumulation of capital: On the separation of labour from the objective conditions of production in Marx's Capital
In contemporary Marxist studies, there has been a revival of two classic categories of the Critique of Political Economy, namely, 'formal subsumption of labour under capital' and 'primitive accumulation of capital'. In contradistinction to traditional usages, Marxists authors consider that both belong, not to the historical past of capitalist production, but to its actuality. Regrettably, this recuperation has not been accompanied by a more thoro…
Peer Review and Natural-Like Social Relations of Production in Academia
There is a paucity of studies addressing the nature of the social relations of production prevailing in academia prior to the commodification of academic research. By filling that gap, this paper enables us to better understand the historical presuppositions from which the process of knowledge commodification in academia has evolved. Our theoretically informed analysis will focus on peer review, given that it is one of the few academic practices …
The commodification of academic research and its social legitimation: When the public communication of science becomes propaganda
This paper takes a novel approach to the functional transformation of the public communication of science and technology in the context of the commodification of academia and academic research. It contends that the public representations of university-industry relations and academic entrepreneurship policy should be understood as an instance of the leveraging of the public communication of science and technology for propaganda purposes. To substa…
A Marxist Analysis of the Metrification of Academic Labor: Research Impact Metrics and Socially Necessary Labor Time
Research impact metrics have proliferated in the context of the commodification of academia and academic research, being widely applied for the evaluation of the performance of academic workers. The existing literature on this question has so far failed to satisfactorily explain two key questions in relation to research impact metrics, namely, what dimension of academic labor they refer to and measure, and how their deployment in evaluation proce…
Hype in the Public Communication of Science-Intensive Entrepreneurship: An Analysis of the Spanish Radio Show 'Los Revolucionarios
This paper investigates the phenomenon of hype in the public communication of science-intensive entrepreneurship. It analyses 70 episodes of the Spanish radio show 'Los Revolucionarios', encompassing the two complete seasons of emissions (2022-2024). It conducts a content analysis that aims to determine the main features of the companies whose technologies are showcased in 'Los Revolucionarios', to elucidate whether 'Los Revolucionarios' conveys …
The Role of Competitive Project-Based Funding in the Commodification of Academic Research: A Marxist Analysis
The current growth of competitive project-based funding (CPBF) as a funding instrument for academic science reveals that public funding plays a critical role in the spreading of the capitalist relations of production in academia. However, this issue has not been properly addressed in the extant literature. This paper examines CPBF in the light of the determinations of capitalist relations of production captured by the Marxist notion of 'formal su…
The Gap Between Science and Society and the Intrinsically Capitalistic Character of Science Communication
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that Science Communication inheres to the capitalist relations of production. By making use of Marxist dialectics, the enquiry will elucidate the enquiry will elucidate that capital creates the gap between science and society that Science Communication is deemed to bridge, for capitalism deprives workers of the ‘intellectual potencies of the material process of production’ and makes both impossible and …
‘Give the Money Where it’s Due’: The Impact of Knowledge-Sharing via Social Media on the Reproduction of the Academic Labourer
This paper addresses the impact that the ever-growing involvement of scientists in knowledge-sharing practices by means of social media might have on the material conditions under which academic labour-power reproduces itself. Science communication is advocated for on the basis of its supposedly altruistic character, so scientists are prevented from expecting any form of remuneration ensuing from it. However, as our Marxian-informed analysis of t…
On the Coercive Nature of Research Impact Metrics: The Case Study of Altmetrics and Science Communication
This article grasps the coercive character often associated to research impact metrics, in the wake of the ever-growing use of quantitative indicators for the evaluation of the academic performance. It does so by taking a Marxian perspective which underscores what are the historically determined attributes of academic labour that the functioning of impact metrics embodies, unfolding thereby what ‘impact’ really means concerning said social attrib…
Representación mediática de las empresas spin-off académicas. Los casos de la Universidad de Granada y la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Las empresas spin-off son una de las herramientas puestas a disposición de las universidades para comercializar y transferir el conocimiento científico generado en su seno, sustrato fundamental del proceso innovador que demanda el capital de las economías desarrolladas. Análogamente, constituyen un nuevo objeto de noticiabilidad en los medios de comunicación, que prestan ocasionalmente sus espacios informativos a dar cobertura mediática de la act…
The Role of Competitive Project-Based Funding in the Commodification of Academic Research: A Marxist Analysis
The current growth of competitive project-based funding (CPBF) as a funding instrument for academic science reveals that public funding plays a critical role in the spreading of the capitalist relations of production in academia. However, this issue has not been properly addressed in the extant literature. This paper examines CPBF in the light of the determinations of capitalist relations of production captured by the Marxist notion of 'formal su…
Imagining Technology-Mediated Social Change? A Critique of the Theory of Sociotechnical Imaginaries
The theory of sociotechnical imaginaries (STIs) has become one of the leading theories or paradigms in the social sciences for analysing technological change and the resulting societal transformations. Promising a non-deterministic, agency-centred account of technologically mediated societal change, this perspective has gained traction across multiple fields, from Science and Technology Studies to energy research to science communication. This pa…
Knowledge-Intensive Commodities and the Political Economy of Knowledge Production: A Marxist Critique of the Theory of Knowledge Rents
The commodification of academic research and its social legitimation: When the public communication of science becomes propaganda
This paper takes a novel approach to the functional transformation of the public communication of science and technology in the context of the commodification of academia and academic research. It contends that the public representations of university-industry relations and academic entrepreneurship policy should be understood as an instance of the leveraging of the public communication of science and technology for propaganda purposes. To substa…
A Marxist Analysis of the Metrification of Academic Labor: Research Impact Metrics and Socially Necessary Labor Time
Research impact metrics have proliferated in the context of the commodification of academia and academic research, being widely applied for the evaluation of the performance of academic workers. The existing literature on this question has so far failed to satisfactorily explain two key questions in relation to research impact metrics, namely, what dimension of academic labor they refer to and measure, and how their deployment in evaluation proce…
Representación mediática de las empresas spin-off académicas. Los casos de la Universidad de Granada y la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Las empresas spin-off son una de las herramientas puestas a disposición de las universidades para comercializar y transferir el conocimiento científico generado en su seno, sustrato fundamental del proceso innovador que demanda el capital de las economías desarrolladas. Análogamente, constituyen un nuevo objeto de noticiabilidad en los medios de comunicación, que prestan ocasionalmente sus espacios informativos a dar cobertura mediática de la act…
On the Coercive Nature of Research Impact Metrics: The Case Study of Altmetrics and Science Communication
This article grasps the coercive character often associated to research impact metrics, in the wake of the ever-growing use of quantitative indicators for the evaluation of the academic performance. It does so by taking a Marxian perspective which underscores what are the historically determined attributes of academic labour that the functioning of impact metrics embodies, unfolding thereby what ‘impact’ really means concerning said social attrib…
‘Give the Money Where it’s Due’: The Impact of Knowledge-Sharing via Social Media on the Reproduction of the Academic Labourer
This paper addresses the impact that the ever-growing involvement of scientists in knowledge-sharing practices by means of social media might have on the material conditions under which academic labour-power reproduces itself. Science communication is advocated for on the basis of its supposedly altruistic character, so scientists are prevented from expecting any form of remuneration ensuing from it. However, as our Marxian-informed analysis of t…
The Gap Between Science and Society and the Intrinsically Capitalistic Character of Science Communication
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that Science Communication inheres to the capitalist relations of production. By making use of Marxist dialectics, the enquiry will elucidate the enquiry will elucidate that capital creates the gap between science and society that Science Communication is deemed to bridge, for capitalism deprives workers of the ‘intellectual potencies of the material process of production’ and makes both impossible and …
Peer Review and Natural-Like Social Relations of Production in Academia
There is a paucity of studies addressing the nature of the social relations of production prevailing in academia prior to the commodification of academic research. By filling that gap, this paper enables us to better understand the historical presuppositions from which the process of knowledge commodification in academia has evolved. Our theoretically informed analysis will focus on peer review, given that it is one of the few academic practices …
The commodification of academic research and its social legitimation: When the public communication of science becomes propaganda
This paper takes a novel approach to the functional transformation of the public communication of science and technology in the context of the commodification of academia and academic research. It contends that the public representations of university-industry relations and academic entrepreneurship policy should be understood as an instance of the leveraging of the public communication of science and technology for propaganda purposes. To substa…
A Marxist Analysis of the Metrification of Academic Labor: Research Impact Metrics and Socially Necessary Labor Time
Research impact metrics have proliferated in the context of the commodification of academia and academic research, being widely applied for the evaluation of the performance of academic workers. The existing literature on this question has so far failed to satisfactorily explain two key questions in relation to research impact metrics, namely, what dimension of academic labor they refer to and measure, and how their deployment in evaluation proce…
Hype in the Public Communication of Science-Intensive Entrepreneurship: An Analysis of the Spanish Radio Show 'Los Revolucionarios
This paper investigates the phenomenon of hype in the public communication of science-intensive entrepreneurship. It analyses 70 episodes of the Spanish radio show 'Los Revolucionarios', encompassing the two complete seasons of emissions (2022-2024). It conducts a content analysis that aims to determine the main features of the companies whose technologies are showcased in 'Los Revolucionarios', to elucidate whether 'Los Revolucionarios' conveys …
The Role of Competitive Project-Based Funding in the Commodification of Academic Research: A Marxist Analysis
The current growth of competitive project-based funding (CPBF) as a funding instrument for academic science reveals that public funding plays a critical role in the spreading of the capitalist relations of production in academia. However, this issue has not been properly addressed in the extant literature. This paper examines CPBF in the light of the determinations of capitalist relations of production captured by the Marxist notion of 'formal su…
Imagining Technology-Mediated Social Change? A Critique of the Theory of Sociotechnical Imaginaries
The theory of sociotechnical imaginaries (STIs) has become one of the leading theories or paradigms in the social sciences for analysing technological change and the resulting societal transformations. Promising a non-deterministic, agency-centred account of technologically mediated societal change, this perspective has gained traction across multiple fields, from Science and Technology Studies to energy research to science communication. This pa…
Knowledge-Intensive Commodities and the Political Economy of Knowledge Production: A Marxist Critique of the Theory of Knowledge Rents
From formal subsumption under capital to primitive accumulation of capital: On the separation of labour from the objective conditions of production in Marx's Capital
In contemporary Marxist studies, there has been a revival of two classic categories of the Critique of Political Economy, namely, 'formal subsumption of labour under capital' and 'primitive accumulation of capital'. In contradistinction to traditional usages, Marxists authors consider that both belong, not to the historical past of capitalist production, but to its actuality. Regrettably, this recuperation has not been accompanied by a more thoro…
Communicating EU-funded projects: A comparison of communication activities in research projects funded under Horizon 2020 and led by Portuguese and Polish institutions
This paper analyses the communication activities conducted within the framework of research projects funded under Horizon 2020, with more than €1M in funding, and led by Portuguese or Polish institutions. A total of 221 initiatives (68 Poland-led and 153 Portugal-led) are examined. The primary finding is that the majority of projects do not engage in communication activities. Web presence is observed in 41.1% of Poland-led projects and 41.8% of P…
Reconsidering the endurance of the ‘Deficit Model’ of science communication: The communication of EU-funded projects as a case study
This paper aims to demonstrate that the endurance of the Deficit Model as a heuristic of science communication practice is rooted in material factors shaping the objective contexts of action that science communicators confront in their daily practices. To achieve this, it draws on 26 semi-structured interviews with communication professionals and other experts who have been directly or indirectly involved in the communication of EU-funded project…
The communication of science within the framework of European Union-funded research projects: Exploring practitioners’ experiences and perceptions
This article aims to advance our understanding of the communication of science conducted within the framework of externally funded research projects, also known as project-based science communication. It deploys semi-structured interviews to explore the experiences and perceptions of 26 communication specialists, project managers and other professionals who have been involved in the Communication & Dissemination Work Packages of Horizon 2020 and …
Moral Depreciation”, “Wear and Tear,” and the Value-Determinations of Knowledge-Intensive Commodities: Recovering Marx’s Original Ideas
The Marxian notions of “wear and tear” and “moral depreciation” have been employed in the scholarly debate on the value-determinations of knowledge-intensive commodities (KICs) to account for their alleged “peculiar cost structure”. The latter refers to the substantial disparity between the high costs incurred in the production of the first unit or “prototype” of KICs, on the one hand, and the relatively negligible costs associated with the gener…
The ‘unavoidable antagonism’ in the ‘academic labour process’: Theorising labour-management relations within academic settings with Marx and the Labour Process Theory
Research management has not been properly conceptualised in the literature addressing the so-called academic labour process. This renders impossible a comprehension of the research-intensive parts of the academic production process in connection with the general determinants of the capitalist relations of production. To address this gap, this paper problematises research management from a Marxist perspective. After presenting the relevant evidenc…
Economics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Marxist philosophy (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (5 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (4 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (4 works)