Research-Training in Cyberculture: an Analysis of Scientific Productions on Digital Technologies

Abstract

The intrinsic complexity of contemporary society, particularly with the accelerated processes of transformation permeating all spheres of everyday life, especially those driven by the widespread adoption of digital technologies, has raised the need for research that transcends the reductionisms and dichotomies inherent in traditional approaches. From this perspective, research-formation in the realm of cyberculture aims to amplify the voices of subjects through sensitive listening, with the goal of collaboratively constructing new knowledge and grasping multiple understandings through dialogical and interactive systems. It is within this methodological context that the present article, as part of a broader study encompassing a Systematic Literature Review (SLR), seeks to analyze how the examined productions approach technologies in their constructs. The corpus analyzed consists of six theses and twelve dissertations supervised or co-supervised by Edméa Oliveira dos Santos. The organization of the data was based on the principles of content analysis (Bardin, 2016). To deepen the analysis, four aspects were investigated: keywords, theoretical references and citations, the incidence of recording units, and the formation of researchers. The results reveal a considerable gap in studies that, focusing on formation and cyberculture, end up neglecting the theoretical understanding of technologies. This suggests, for the analyzed corpus, a possible lack of specific training on the topic by the researchers.  

Keywords: Cyberculture. Edméa Santos. Research-training in cyberculture. Systematic review. Digital technologies.