In this paper, I critically examine institutional epistemic gatekeepers—including academic platforms such as PhilPapers, JSTOR, major publishers, and academic repositories—as fiduciaries entrusted with safeguarding epistemic diversity, justice, and integrity.

Constitutional theory thesis explicitly reconceptualising media as epistemic gatekeepers, proposing fiduciary-epistemic governance to ensure democratic accountability, epistemic fairness, and public trust.

A multimodal poetic thesis explicitly critiquing academic gatekeeping and epistemic domestication. Through poetry, multilingualism, and visual epistemology, it illustrates how traditional academic structures actively constrain knowledge into sanctioned forms.