The virtual research community: a new arena of scientific communication

Authors

  • Rejane Ramos Machado Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Centro de Informação Científica e Tecnológica, Departamento de Estudos em Ciência e Tecnologia, Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
  • Maria Elisa Andries dos Reis Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Coordenação de Comunicação Institucional, Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3395/reciis.v1i2.915

Keywords:

Virtual community, scientific communications, cyberculture

Abstract

Over the last 30 years, the introduction of new communications techniques and information has generated a historical rupture, a paradigm break, resulting from innovative technological transformations. In this context, the virtual research community appears as a new cognitive social grouping for collective, interactive and interdisciplinary scientific practices, establishing selective patterns of relationships in the academy. Those new patterns are substituting the contact territory boundary, giving larger reach and speed to research, starting with their authors' interaction, independent of time and space. It is in this virtual arena that researchers feel changes in experiences, sharing of information, and mutual collaboration in research. The present study approaches the transformations of the scientific communication and points out the virtual communities' role in the current social context.

Published

2007-12-31

How to Cite

Machado, R. R., & dos Reis, M. E. A. (2007). The virtual research community: a new arena of scientific communication. Revista Eletrônica De Comunicação, Informação & Inovação Em Saúde, 1(2). https://doi.org/10.3395/reciis.v1i2.915

Issue

Section

Pesquisas em andamento