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Revistas científicas on-line de Comunicação no Brasil:
a produção editorial sob o impacto da tecnologia digital

Communication in on-line scientific journals in Brazil:
the impact of digital technology on editorial production
Author | Raquel Castedo
Advisor | Professor Dr. Ana Gruszynski
Year | 2009
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Abstract The research has as object the online Brazilian scientific journals on Communication that have presented the qualification Qualis A Nacional in 2008, that have full texts available online and the most recent edition in the same year. Such delimitation encompasses the ones that Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Capes – evaluates as the best journals in this field: Comunicação, Mídia e Consumo; E-Compós; Eptic On Line, Galáxia; Intercom – Revista Brasileira de Ciências da Comunicação; Intexto; Revista FAMECOS; Revista Fronteiras; and Studium. The main objective of this work was the identification of tendencies in the editorial production of Brazilian online scientific journals in the area of Communication, considering especially the publications design. As specific objectives, we sought to understand and discuss the role of periodicals in the scope of formal science communication, taking as reference the scientific values and models; to identify the typical traits of scientific journals editorial production and how they relate to the design of these online periodicals; and to analyze the design of Brazilian scientific journals on Communication that are available online. The methodology used started with a bibliographic research that has established the theoretical fundaments about science and the field of Communication, particularly on scientific journals, editorial production and design. These publications analysis was organized in two stages. Both were structured with the elaboration of an analysis instrument created from the basis guideline for online scientific journals edition proposed by Gruszynski, Golin e Castedo (2008). The first stage focused the publications edition flow, from planning to circulation, which reflects in the final product available to readers. Besides qualitative data, specific examples that presented particularities in the periodicals were brought up. In the second stage, the focus was the identification of tendencies of using images as resource to knowledge construction in the publications. It was detected that although some changes indicate de influence of information technology in the production of the journals that compose the corpus of this research, mainly in the stage of circulation, such changes do not appear in all editorial practice stages. Writing and editing contents are still strongly based upon printed culture, heavily reflecting scientific community values and habits.

Keywords Science. Communication. Online scientific journals. Editorial production. Design.