Biosociabilidad and the Citizen Science Practice in Social Networks

• In Event: Citizen Bureaucraft - I

Abstract

The focus is on social networks and the new relationships engendered by this communicational model in what concerns science. The conceptual, methodological and empirical cut is made in the health area, in discussions of treatment of diseases and disorders and as the new media, that is, social networks have found forms and developed to deal with this area in a social scope of direct form and indirect, both for patients and their physicians, and for researchers looking for developments in health science. In this approach, authors such as Nikolas Rose, Paul Rabinow, Sheila Jasanoff, Zygmunt Bauman, Anthony Giddens, Ulrich Beck, Veena Das, Manuel Castells, Bruno Latour, etc. can be conceptually correlated. From the proposed object, we intend to analyze the HealthUnlocked social network, which exemplifies how this relationship of the thematic groups of online discussions on health vis-à-vis the notion of biossociability. Thus, ways are opened to analyze the controversial areas created by networks in which medical issues are openly discussed. This is not just a meeting of lay people, but a gathering of actors who can contribute to changes in medicine. Thus, it is hypothesized that such groups of online discussions, which fit into what is called biossociability, are also involved in contributing to the production of knowledge, with science (citizen science).

Authors

• Maria da Costa, State University of Campinas

• Jean Maicon Rickes Medeiros, PhD Student in Science and Technology Policy at Unicamp (PPG-PCT/Unicamp)