The Indian anthropologist Arjun Appadurai recently made an important call to rethink research beyond the walls of academia. He proposes that we think of research in terms of the "right to the tools through which any citizen can systematically increase the stock of knowledge that they consider most vital to their survival as human beings and to their claims as citizens."

Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, loc. 636