Making Research Public. Ethics, Politics, and the Power of Plural Dissemination

Dissemination is too often treated as a neutral endpoint, a passive delivery of research findings. With this work I insist otherwise. Rooted in new materialist thought, I position dissemination as an ethical praxis: a place of epistemic struggle, creative resistance, and institutional possibility. With theoretical positioning, methodological reflection, and infrastructural critique, I expose how citation practices and formats like the PDF sustain extractive logics. Performative, multimodal, and collaborative forms become acts of refusal and remaking. Voice, access, and positionality are ethical imperatives. Here I focus on the dissemination of socio-material and practice research, asking how its public forms and infrastructures enact ethics in both their possibilities and their exclusions. To make ethics public is to remake dissemination as plural, relational, and accountable knowledge-making.