Academic social networks: the conditions of existence in the area of communication sciences in Brazil

The article “Academic social networks: the conditions of existence in the area of communication sciences in Brazil”, of researcher Dalton Martins (UFG), presents a study on the social academic collaboration networks forming conditions applied to the area of Communication Sciences, seeking to highlight the relationship between social practices, regimes of truth and the immanence plane formed by the social relationships in this area and the structural indicators used to analyze empirically co-authoring network of researchers. The study compares the results with academic social networks from other areas of knowledge and allows highlighting the specifics of the communication area and the relationship of these factors with the own history of formation of the Communication area in Brazil. The methodology is composed by a bibliographic review of studies analysis of social networks of scientific collaboration in several areas of knowledge and uses the data base of magazine website of communication area universcience. Org to analyze over 9800 scientific articles in a historic production of 42 years. The results point to strong features such as highly fragmented, low collaboration index and dispersion among various groups. Check out the full article in the link below.

https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/revistafamecos/article/view/23391/14609