Publication ethics: stressing the positive

– This paper discusses the publication “Challenges to ethical publishing in the digital era”.

– It is a critical analysis of the paper built around two main arguments: the need to stress the positive in ethical debates; the critique of apolitical professionalism; the crucial need to stress the ties between politics and ethics.

– No finding — it was simply argument.

– Provocative challenge to dominant ethical debates.

– The need to challenge the myths of professionalism.

– The need for the academe to embrace more the work coming out of the alternative public sphere.