BRAZILIAN SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT ON PHOTOGRAPHY WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF INFORMATION SCIENCE
A DOMAIN ANALYSIS EXPLORING THE POSSIBILITY OF CONSTRUCTING AN EPISTEMIC COMMUNITY
Keywords:
photography, epistemic communities, domain analysisAbstract
Focusing on Brazilian scientific production on photography in Information Science, this study aims to identify and characterize, through domain analysis, the existing epistemic communities based on their central authors/references, thematic axes, and patterns of scientific circulation that structure this field. To this end, a search was conducted in the BRAPCI database, in articles from Brazilian journals, using the term "photography" in the keywords field, without a temporal restriction. Aspects related to authors, theoretical references, keywords, journals, temporal distribution, and citation relationships were analyzed, using the Pajek software to provide a visual representation. The results indicate, among other aspects: a) the centrality of Miriam Paula Manini, André Porto Ancona Lopez, and Telma Campanha de Carvalho Madio; b) the thematic predominance of photography as an informational, documentary, and memorial phenomenon; c) the predominance of 5 publication vehicles (scientific journals) – Em Questão, Comunicação & Informação, Ponto de Acesso, Ágora, and Logeion – and a growing production, peaking in 2020. It is concluded that photography constitutes a consolidating domain, marked by interdisciplinarity, its own vocabulary and shared references, with a growing expansion of contemporary documentary, social and cultural approaches in Information Science.