The problem is that the OA movement has appeared around the same time when the
nature of knowledge production was changing. An insight into this "Mode 2" of
knowledge production is provided by The New Production of Knowledge by Gibbons
et al. (fulltext Introduction here), for those interested.
Two of the topics Guédon raises that I think need more thought and research in
the area of scholarly communication and may arguably be intertwined: the
possibility of diminished emphasis on the idea of the individual author or
creator (perhaps an obvious outcome of social media) and potential g
