Redes de colaboração científica na perspectiva dos ecossistemas comunicacionais: um estudo da colaboração científica na Amazônia por meio da Rede Bionorte

Abstract

Based on the assumption that science and a collective undertaking and, consequently, a social phenomenon and the understanding that it is a communication is basic for scientific development, it was proposed a reflection under the ecosystemic prism of the wireless communication processes of the Network BIONORTE, in order to investigate their flows and patterns as well as their relationship with collaborative scientific production in this region. To this end, he relied on Luhmann's systemic thinking, in the ecosystemic view of Maturana and Varela, for the perception of scientific collaboration networks as self-organized and autopoietic systems; in the concepts of Musso, Parente and Latour for an understanding of the notion of networks; and in the precepts of Marteleto, Acioli, and Recuero, for the understanding of social networks, in order to generate a conceptual repertoire for the attainment of the proposed objectives. As for the methodological trail, it was based on the ecosystemic assumption that there is no defined Method for an investigation of the communicational phenomena, in a way that uses a combination of methods, techniques and tools included in the software ScriptLattes for data extraction of the Lattes platform, as well as for structuring and compilation of the information in order to enable a results calculation through Social Network Analysis (ARS) resources with the help of the Gephi computational program. It was noticed that the scientific collaboration in the Legal Amazon was strengthened with a formalization of Bionorte, reaching the substantial increase of productivities no longer its first four years, gaining more vigor from the implantation of its postgraduate program that will increase the interaction of the Network. The main means of scientific communication adopted by the Network concerning the production of articles, books and book chapters, which reflect the degree of collaboration, the centrality of resources, density and interaction of the Bionorte communicational ecosystem.