The researcher and scientific divulgation in the context of cyberculture and artificial intelligence

Abstract

The production of scientific knowledge leads to an understanding of how a body of knowledge legitimated as Science is elaborated. In the productive plot, the role of the researcher in the research and dissemination of the knowledge produced is highlighted. In this perspective, the researcher uses research as an instrument for the development of Science and dissemination in response to the social function of knowledge. Producing and disseminating are essential stages of the research process. This study aims to understand how researchers of graduate programs at a public university in Bahia understand the role of scientific divulgation and present the context of Cyberculture and Artificial Intelligence as enabling the act of scientific divulgation. It constitutes an excerpt from empirical research that focused on the researcher and scientific dissemination. The data were collected through interviews with three professors/researchers from graduate programs and are analyzed comprehensively. As a result, it appears that researchers recognize the cyber and Artificial Intelligence context as fruitful to socialize the knowledge produced, but do not feel available and responsible for such a task. It is concluded that the understandings of researchers about Science draw the ways used to produce knowledge and support the behaviors related to scientific divulgation. Giving visibility to Cyberculture and the context of Artificial Intelligence, as a space-time for the socialization of collective knowledge and action, contributes to the approximation between researcher/society and science/culture.