A pesquisa visa a fazer uma reflexão sobre a produção de hipermídias para a construção do conhecimento científico acadêmico. Para tanto, temos como base a filosofia de Gadamer (2008), que questiona a incontestabilidade da metodologia científica. Segundo ele, para chegarmos a uma inteligência compreensiva não necessitamos de uma imersão no método científico, uma vez que ela já é adquirida pela experiência mundana: na realidade histórica, na experiência, no tempo, na tradição, visão da qual compartilhamos e a qual acreditamos ser possibilitada por processos digitais de produção do conhecimento. Partimos do conceito de ruptura epistemológica (Bachelard, 1996) para desenvolver a noção da ciência no contexto da hipermídia e suas possibilidades de apropriação na difusão, divulgação e produção do conhecimento, dando origem a três categorias explicitadas no capítulo II. Ao nos concentramos na produção do conhecimento em hipermídia analisamos três trabalhos acadêmicos em linguagem hipermidiática: From (Gomes, 2008), LOttocento (Eco, 1999) e Ilha Cabu (Petry, 2010), análises realizadas sob a óptica de três metodologias distintas que visam avaliar níveis de navegabilidade (Landow, 2006), interatividade (Schulmeister, 2001), hibridismo de linguagens (Santaella, 2005) e níveis de conhecimento (Bairon, 2004) sob o viés da produção do conhecimento em hipermídia como possibilidade de abertura hermenêutica entre ciência e senso comum. / The research intends to ponder on the hypermedia production for the construction of scholarly science knowledge. To this end we rely on Gadamers (2008) philosophy , which questions the scientific methods indisputability. According to him, in order to achieve a comprehensive intelligence we do not need a scientific method immersion, once it has already been acquired viamundane experience -- in historical reality, in experience, in time, in tradition --, a view we share and believe may be allowed for digital processes of knowledge production. We depart from the epistemological rupture (Bachelard, 1996) to develop a notion of science in the hypermedia concept and its possibilities for appropriation of diffusion, dissemination and production of knowledge, giving rise to three categories explained in chapter II. We concentrate in knowledge production in hypermedia and we analyze three academicals works made in hypermedia: From (Gomes, 2008), LOttocento (Eco, 1999) and Ilha Cabu (Petry, 2010), conducted under three methodologies that evaluate levels of navegability (Landow, 2006), interaction (Schulmeister, 2001), hybridity (Santaella, 2005) and knowledge levels (Bairon, 2004) under the bias of the knowledge production in hypermedia as a possibility for a hermeneutical opening between science and common sense.

A pesquisa visa a fazer uma reflexão sobre a produção de hipermídias para a construção do conhecimento científico acadêmico. Para tanto, temos como base a filosofia de Gadamer (2008), que questiona a incontestabilidade da metodologia científica. Segundo ele, para chegarmos a uma inteligência compreensiva não necessitamos de uma imersão no método científico, uma vez que ela já é adquirida pela experiência mundana: na realidade histórica, na experiência, no tempo, na tradição, visão da qual compartilhamos e a qual acreditamos ser possibilitada por processos digitais de produção do conhecimento. Partimos do conceito de ruptura epistemológica (Bachelard, 1996) para desenvolver a noção da ciência no contexto da hipermídia e suas possibilidades de apropriação na difusão, divulgação e produção do conhecimento, dando origem a três categorias explicitadas no capítulo II. Ao nos concentramos na produção do conhecimento em hipermídia analisamos três trabalhos acadêmicos em linguagem hipermidiática: From (Gomes, 2008), LOttocento (Eco, 1999) e Ilha Cabu (Petry, 2010), análises realizadas sob a óptica de três metodologias distintas que visam avaliar níveis de navegabilidade (Landow, 2006), interatividade (Schulmeister, 2001), hibridismo de linguagens (Santaella, 2005) e níveis de conhecimento (Bairon, 2004) sob o viés da produção do conhecimento em hipermídia como possibilidade de abertura hermenêutica entre ciência e senso comum. / The research intends to ponder on the hypermedia production for the construction of scholarly science knowledge. To this end we rely on Gadamers (2008) philosophy , which questions the scientific methods indisputability. According to him, in order to achieve a comprehensive intelligence we do not need a scientific method immersion, once it has already been acquired viamundane experience -- in historical reality, in experience, in time, in tradition --, a view we share and believe may be allowed for digital processes of knowledge production. We depart from the epistemological rupture (Bachelard, 1996) to develop a notion of science in the hypermedia concept and its possibilities for appropriation of diffusion, dissemination and production of knowledge, giving rise to three categories explained in chapter II. We concentrate in knowledge production in hypermedia and we analyze three academicals works made in hypermedia: From (Gomes, 2008), LOttocento (Eco, 1999) and Ilha Cabu (Petry, 2010), conducted under three methodologies that evaluate levels of navegability (Landow, 2006), interaction (Schulmeister, 2001), hybridity (Santaella, 2005) and knowledge levels (Bairon, 2004) under the bias of the knowledge production in hypermedia as a possibility for a hermeneutical opening between science and common sense.

This dissertation project explored the privileging of knowledge production in science and technology as a Canadian national economic, political and social strategy. The project incorporated the relationship between nation-state knowledge production and how that knowledge is then systematically evaluated, prioritized and validated by systems of health technology assessment (HTA). The entry point into the analysis and this dissertation project was the Scientific Research and Experimental Design (SR&ED) federal tax incentive program as the cornerstone of science and technology knowledge production in Canada. The method of inquiry and analysis examined the submission documents submitted by key stakeholders across the country, representing public, private and academic standpoints, during the public consultation process conducted from 2007 to 2008 and how each of these standpoints is hooked into the public policy interests and institutional structures that produce knowledge in science and technology. Key public meetings, including the public information sessions facilitated by the Canada Revenue Agency and private industry conferences, provided context and guidance regarding the current pervasive public and policy interests that direct and drive the policy debates. Finally, the “Innovation Canada: A Call to Action Review of Federal Support to Research and Development: Expert Panel Report,” commonly referred to as “The Jenkins Report” (Jenkins et al., 2011), was critically evaluated as the expected predictor of future public policy changes associated with the SR&ED program and the future implications for the production of knowledge in science and technology. The method of inquiry and analytical lens was a materialist approach that drew on the inspiring frameworks of such scholars as Dorothy Smith, Michel Foucault, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Melinda Cooper, and, Gilles Deleuze. Ultimately, I strove to illuminate the normalizing force and power of knowledge production in science and technology, and the disciplines and structures that encompass it and are hooked into it where the privileging of such knowledge becomes hegemonic within and by the regimes of knowledge production that created them.

This dissertation project explored the privileging of knowledge production in science and technology as a Canadian national economic, political and social strategy. The project incorporated the relationship between nation-state knowledge production and how that knowledge is then systematically evaluated, prioritized and validated by systems of health technology assessment (HTA). The entry point into the analysis and this dissertation project was the Scientific Research and Experimental Design (SR&ED) federal tax incentive program as the cornerstone of science and technology knowledge production in Canada. The method of inquiry and analysis examined the submission documents submitted by key stakeholders across the country, representing public, private and academic standpoints, during the public consultation process conducted from 2007 to 2008 and how each of these standpoints is hooked into the public policy interests and institutional structures that produce knowledge in science and technology. Key public meetings, including the public information sessions facilitated by the Canada Revenue Agency and private industry conferences, provided context and guidance regarding the current pervasive public and policy interests that direct and drive the policy debates. Finally, the “Innovation Canada: A Call to Action Review of Federal Support to Research and Development: Expert Panel Report,” commonly referred to as “The Jenkins Report” (Jenkins et al., 2011), was critically evaluated as the expected predictor of future public policy changes associated with the SR&ED program and the future implications for the production of knowledge in science and technology. The method of inquiry and analytical lens was a materialist approach that drew on the inspiring frameworks of such scholars as Dorothy Smith, Michel Foucault, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Melinda Cooper, and, Gilles Deleuze. Ultimately, I strove to illuminate the normalizing force and power of knowledge production in science and technology, and the disciplines and structures that encompass it and are hooked into it where the privileging of such knowledge becomes hegemonic within and by the regimes of knowledge production that created them.