Divulgação científica no ciberespaço: a visualização de colégio invisível em rede social digital

Abstract

It discusses the invisible schools in digital social network (Facebook) to compose an ecosystem of popular science. It is a question of exploratory research, descriptive. It has qualitative and quantitative nature delineated between observation and survey of subjects. for the composition of the sample of research subject, it was used the production of scientific articles collected in the database with the theme social network in the years 2006 to 2011, this process was achieved through 2 steps to subjects’ identification, wherein the step 3 describes the qualitative nature of the research to the survey of the invisible schools. It was obtained as subjects 43 researchers from Brazilian institutions, with participation in the article production of multiple authorships. Among the invisible schools there was the scientific production together with researchers from other countries like the United States, France, Portugal, Canada and Hungary, such foreign researchers are not included in the research sample. Among the surveyed who had more of one publication from the total of 126 collected articles, it was found that the number of productions reaches a maximum of 3 items which features two researchers with that total. The collection was made in view of the subjects that constitute the 9 groups surveyed by the articles. The study shows that the subjects that compose the sample of investigation research on social network, but they weakly interact on Facebook, they post on social network only events and professional matters, and they don’t interact among themselves, it was the reality raised with the observation of this investigation.