Cultura científica no Brasil contemporâneo : historiografia da ciência e curadoria digital no Facebook

Abstract

The following research approaches a framing of Brazilian science history and its current scientific culture condition to think about cyberspace dialogs, through a digital curatory experiment on Facebook. It addresses the sharing experience of the “Programa de Índio” televisional content, produced by UFMT’s television channel (TV Universidade) in the 1990’s, edited and shared on Tecnoíndia’s research group Facebook page, between January and December of 2017. Looking to support the historical moment on which the digital sharing experience took place, the first part of this work is focused on the history of Brazilian science, highlighting the different periods of national scientific development, the foundation of the main institutions, expeditions and the appearing of important characters. Within this, the foundation of the Federal University of Mato Grosso is contextualized, as well as the research group Tecnoíndia, the “Programa de Índio” and the moment on which the referred experience is developed. Based on the main historical facts and the description of the process to adapt the content produced by the university’s television to the Facebook page, scientific culture concept is elaborated through the view of five authors: Miguel Ozório de Almeida, Anísio Teixeira, Mauricio Rocha e Silva, Darcy Ribeiro and Carlos Vogt. Afterward, the concept of digital curation is explored to think about digital curation strategies for the construction process of the referred content. Finally, the experience’s performance is presented using quantitative and qualitative data to the think about the viability of the social media use as a tool to propose a scientific dialog considering its current condition on contemporary culture. I propose that, to engage in an effective divulgation of a content produced in scientific institutions, the history of science in Brazil must be understood. It’s hoped, therefore, to comprehend the route that constitutes Brazilian national science and the dialogue between scientific culture and digital curation to think about the role of science on social media.