Love that angle, Rebecca, focusing on power and in whose interest it is to distort that perception of quality. Though I have noticed that this angle also goes over som people’s heads. Talk about power, etc., is quite common in some circles but other people tend to view it as if it were conspiracy theories we are making up in our own heads or something! To be totally honest, some critical literature sounded like that to me, too (mostly not the scholarship itself but grad students citing it in different contexts). But of course, now I see the whole world through that lens and I sort of cannot see it any other way. Most digitally literate people I know who have a critical perspective on life would see the open access issue the way you and I do. Will try this angle and report back on my blog about what people say