Os estudos acerca da gestão do conhecimento apontam para a utilização do conhecimento como fomento de um desempenho mais eficaz, a partir do envolvimento dos sujeitos nos processos organizacionais, valorizando os ativos do conhecimento, capazes de promover o sucesso da organização. A literatura da área de gestão do conhecimento concentra suas discussões no ambiente das organizações empresariais e possui a maioria das pesquisas e aplicações voltadas ao conhecimento organizacional, contudo, verifica-se a existência de outros contextos, nos quais a gestão do conhecimento pode ser estudada e discutida, dentre esses, o contexto das organizações universitárias, sob a perspectiva do conhecimento científico. A pesquisa investigou o ambiente de uma organização universitária, com o objetivo de estudar o processo de compartilhamento do conhecimento científico na Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR). Para tanto, realizou um estudo de caso envolvendo docentes que atendessem a dois requisitos: orientar tese de doutorado e possuir bolsa produtividade do CNPq. Os dados foram coletados por meio de pesquisa documental e entrevistas em profundidade analisadas utilizando a análise de conteúdo. Os resultados apontam que embora ainda não existam muitos estudos acerca da gestão do conhecimento científico, o ambiente científico já agrega elementos utilizados pela GC. Para os entrevistados, o processo de aquisição de conhecimentos e o interesse pela atividade de pesquisa não estão atrelados à área de formação, mas as suas características individuais. As pesquisas são realizadas em áreas definidas para adensar o conhecimento. A produção está atrelada à pesquisa dos seus orientandos e para iniciar um novo estudo, utilizam a literatura, sobretudo periódicos internacionais. Os canais de comunicação utilizados são, a participação em eventos, e-mail, viagens, contato face a face, participação em bancas, Skype, aulas, fórum, reuniões, telefone, chat, lista de e-mail, página web (acesso aberto e restrito por senha), palestras, seminários, servidor web (com senha), videoconferência. Na comunicação formal, os periódicos são escolhidos por qualidade e credibilidade. Não há ferramentas e práticas institucionalizadas para o compartilhamento de informação e conhecimento, o que ocorre em meios informais, contudo, há o investimento recente em ferramentas como portal institucional, biblioteca digital de teses e dissertações e repositório institucional. O ambiente institucional apresenta espaço físico limitado, por outro lado oferece condições para a realização de atividades de pesquisa. Consideram o contato com os pares relevante para a realização de suas atividades de pesquisa. / Studies on knowledge management have pointed out the use of knowledge as a way for developing more efficient performances, due to the involvement of subjects on organizational processes, recognizing the value of knowledge assets as capable of making an enterprise successful. The literature in the area of knowledge management concentrates the discussions on business organizational environment and most of researches and applications are related to the organizational knowledge perspective. However, it is noted the existence of other contexts where knowledge management can be studied and discussed, among these, academic contexts on the scientific knowledge perspective. This work has investigated the environment of an academic institution with the aim of studying the scientific knowledge sharing at Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR). For so, a case study was developed at the institution, involving professors who met the following requirements: being primary adviser of doctorate dissertations and receiving Research Productivity Scholarship from CNPq. The data were collected by means of documental research and interviews were deeply analyzed using Content Analysis. The results showed that, even though there are not many studies on scientific knowledge management, the scientific environment already possesses elements used by KM. According to the interviewees, the process of knowledge acquisition and the interest in research activities are not tied to their professional area, but to their individual characteristics. Research is conducted in defined areas in order to deepen knowledge. Their production is related to the research conducted by their advisees and, in order to start a new study, they make use of literature, especially international journals. The communication channels mentioned were: participation in events, e-mails, trips, face to face contact, participation in boards, Skype, classes, forums, meetings, phone calls, chat, e-mail list, web page (open access and restricted by password), lectures, seminars, web server (with password), video conferencing. In relation to the formal communication, journals are chosen for their quality and credibility. There are no institutionalized tools and practices for sharing information and knowledge. It occurs in informal ways. However, investments have been recently made in tools such as the institutional portal, digital library of theses and dissertations and institutional repository. The institutional environment has limited physical space, on the other hand, it offers conditions for carrying out research activities. They consider contact with peers relevant for the development of their research activities.

Openness about sperm and egg donation and the regulation of donor anonymity or non-anonymity are new phenomena. How do affected families, clinics, and regulators deal with information about gamete donors and the donation itself? And how does this knowledge management contribute to the creation and enactment of kinship? Addressing these questions in Germany and Britain, this ethnography makes a comparative contribution to the empirical and theoretical analysis of kin-formation and social change. Maren Klotz reveals a contemporary renegotiation of the values of privacy, information-sharing, and connectedness as they relate to the social, clinical, and regulatory management of kinship information. Transparency, not genetics, is the moral imperative, and instead of an unambiguously discernible “geneticization,” her findings on donor non-anonymity and parental openness display a pattern of “transparentization.” This pattern represents a shift in authority over kinship away from the sometimes highhanded reproductive medical profession towards concerned groups, parents-by-donation, and policymakers.

This thesis reports a computational corpus study of textbooks used in high school science programs in Queensland, Australia. The central research issues concern: 1. how textbook authors deploy linguistic resources in representing scientific knowledge; 2. whether or not authors deploy linguistic resources differently across the disciplines of science, and for younger and older readers; and, 3. whether or not variation in the deployment of linguistic resources can be interpreted in terms of the processes and mechanisms for establishing reliable and valid scientific knowledge. The thesis first summarises theoretical debates concerning the nature and teaching of science. An extended discussion, in the form of a case study of Galileo's work on motion, is presented, along with examples of how the 'Galileo story' has been revised and modified into popular and professional / educational imagination. This discussion thaws out critical points about the relationships between science as an observational and empirical activity and science as an abstract and intellectual activity. This is contrasted with educational constructivist accounts of learning and pedagogy, and how constructivist pedagogy is influenced by constructivist accounts of the doing of science. The data collection and analysis methods are then described in detail. A variety of tagging and marking techniques relating to vocabulary, logical formation and connection words, and grammatical formations are used. These provide the bases for a variety of frequency and collocational analyses, which, in turn, feed into a series of multivariate analyses. After presenting a descriptive overview of the corpus of textbooks, the results are reported in four chapters. Each chapter considers one linguistic resource in turn: vocabulary diversity, lexical organisation, words used to establish logical and structural formations, and grammatical organisation. These chapters show that there is systematic variation in authors deployment of linguistic resources, and that variation with respect to one linguistic resource is associated with variation with respect to the others. In particular, when scientific knowledge is presented through elaboration, persuasion, and description, there is little or no underlying structure to the phenomena being discussed, or there are few or no underlying concepts to which authors can return as their discussions progress. Alternatively, when scientific knowledge is presented in terms of rules, statements, procedures, and arrangements, the content of a topic is structured around a small number of underlying and uni~ing concepts. The contrast is between a loosely structured science that is descriptive, factual and observational, and a highly structured science that is for the most part theoretical. Furthermore, authors selectivity in their deployment of linguistic resources is associated with the major scientific disciplines. The suggestion is that the contents of Biology and Geology, with only a loose structure or no structure to the contents underlying concepts, are presented through elaboration, persuasion, and description, whereas the contents of Physics and Chemistry, structured around a small number of underlying and uni~ing concepts, are presented in terms of rules, statements, procedures, and arrangements. The thesis concludes that what is missing in textbook accounts that embody naive empiricism is the discernment evident in Galileos work: when, how and with what cost to 'simplify' the experiential world, and how to add back to theoretical accounts the complexities of the experiential world. It is an understanding of these processes and the ways in which they can be displayed and developed in classrooms that could better inform the preparation of science teachers as well as laying a stronger base for high school programs.

COSTA, Teogenes Luiz Silva da. Discursos sobre a interdição à auto-hemoterapia: genealogia de um fato médico-científico. 2017. 209f. – Tese (Doutorado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza (CE), 2017. / Submitted by Gustavo Daher (gdaherufc@hotmail.com) on 2017-05-08T11:40:42Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_tese_tlscosta.pdf: 2485734 bytes, checksum: 5ee5466ee141f18a9f32785c1c6363fb (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-05-08T13:50:33Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_tese_tlscosta.pdf: 2485734 bytes, checksum: 5ee5466ee141f18a9f32785c1c6363fb (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-08T13:50:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_tese_tlscosta.pdf: 2485734 bytes, checksum: 5ee5466ee141f18a9f32785c1c6363fb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017 / This thesis intends to present the knowledge obtained from research concerning the process that leads to the interdiction attributed to a health "technique" called autohemotherapy (AHT). Here it is intended to demonstrate the political dimension of the action (taken, jointly, by political and biomedical entities) to make health practitioners "forbidden" to practice AHT. The interdiction of the AHT is treated here as an event permeated by three dimensions of social life, namely, economic, scientific and political. The central focus is concentrated on the latter two. The thesis I present here is that the change in the scientific parameters of medicine was influenced by the discovery of penicillin. I develop this thesis from some hypotheses, namely: 1) "Medical-scientific" agents (or biomedical ones, figured in the Federal Medical Council) are carrying out a political action in suggesting the "ban" to the AHT – based on alleged lack of scientificity – since no research is used, Required by them, attesting to any risk of using the therapy; 2) The interdictive act is the result of an "institutional thought"; 3) The prohibition of AHT is based on the change in the criteria of scientificity and the reduction of "medical authority" in the production of health knowledge for pharmacological knowledge. / Esta tese intenciona apresentar os conhecimentos alcançados a partir de pesquisa referente ao processo que leva à interdição imputada a uma “técnica” de saúde denominada auto-hemoterapia (AHT). Aqui se pretende demonstrar a dimensão política da ação (tomada, em conjunto, por entes políticos e biomédicos) de tornar “interdita” a profissionais de saúde a prática da AHT. A interdição à AHT é aqui tratada como um acontecimento perpassado por três dimensões da vida social, a saber: a econômica, a científica e a política. O enfoque central é concentrado nas duas últimas. A tese que apresento aqui, é a de que a mudança nos parâmetros de cientificidade na medicina foi influenciada pela descoberta da penicilina. Desenvolvo esta tese a partir de algumas hipóteses, a saber: 1) Os agentes “médicos-cientistas” (ou biomédicos, figurados no Conselho Federal de Medicina) estão realizando uma ação política ao sugerirem a “interdição” à AHT – baseados em alegada falta de cientificidade –, pois não são usadas pesquisas, nos moldes exigidos por eles, que atestem qualquer risco de utilização da terapia; 2) O ato interditivo é resultado de um “pensamento institucional”; 3) A interdição à AHT se baseia na mudança nos critérios de cientificidade e na diminuição da “autoridade médica” na produção de conhecimentos em saúde para os saberes farmacológicos.

Nanotechnology has captured the attention of governments and corporations around the globe. It has become the subject and context for numerous conferences, media articles, websites and scientific research papers. Nano enthusiasts and government officials claim that it is an area that promises new understandings of nature, and use of that understanding to build technologies that might change our lives. Despite the growing hype surrounding this new science, what appears to be lacking is scholarly literature that examines its growth and expansion from a social science perspective. This study addressed this limitation through a sociological analysis of the network of actors, events, rhetorical strategies, practices and instrumentation that went into the construction and growth of nanotechnology. Relying heavily on actor-network theory (ANT), this study focused on a small part of the total network referred to as the knowledge education production process, which involved the enrollment of high school teachers into the nanotechnology network through a series of collaborative workshops -- the Nanotechnology Curriculum Development Project (NCDP) -- with Virginia Polytechnic and State University (Virginia Tech) scientists over a period of two years. By investigating how the nanotechnology network was constructed and maintained, this case study examined the relevance of ANT as nanotechnology moved beyond the laboratory into the public domain of high school education. It looked at the intermediary role of high school science and math teachers and revealed the function of conflict, power, authority, hierarchy, interests, motivations, gender and race in the construction and expansion of scientific networks. / Ph. D.

This thesis analyses the process of institutionalisation of the concept of genetically modified organism (GMO) in the UK between 1986-1993. The existing accounts of the GM debate have focussed on either the 1970s or the 1990s. Very little, however, has been said about the 1980s, long before that of GMOs became a popular issue. Through a detailed examination of the PROSAMO initiative – a series of experiments aimed at determining the environmental impact of GMOs with a regulatory purpose in mind – this thesis have been able to explore the important but rather neglected role of the UK dominant institutions in the historical development of the debate over the release of GMOs into the environment. In analysing the way ‘GMO’ institutionalised between the late 1980s and early 1990s, this thesis shows that the concepts of risk and uncertainty – which have dominated the GM debate – need to be conceived as collective constructs that are used strategically in order to pursue various objectives related to the context in which people using them operate. It is also argued that the legitimate use of these concepts is bound to the credibility and the authority of science. These considerations have stimulated some reflections on the nature and role of regulation in the GM debate. In particular, it is argued that the move from a voluntary system of controls to a statutory one represents a move from an epistemic community approach to policy-making to a logic of bureaucratic politics, in which the literal interpretation of rules became a solution to political disagreement. As rule following became a political requirement, GMOs became a bureaucratic issue and scientists turned into bureaucrats. Within these changes, the role of scientific expertise in the definition of GMOs decreased. From this point of view, the way ‘genetic modification’ and GMO institutionalised gave rise to new practices and behaviours that turned around GMO as a controversial but nevertheless stable category.

A great deal of evaluations are commissioned and conducted every year in social work, but research reports a lack of use of the evaluation results. This may depend on how the evaluations are conducted, but it may also depend on how social workers use evaluation results. The aim of this thesis is to explore and analyse evaluation practice in social work from an empirical, normative, and constructive perspective. The objectives are partly to increase the understanding of how we can produce relevant and useful knowledge for social work using evaluation results and partly, to give concrete suggestions on improvements on how to conduct evaluations. The empirical data has been organised as four cases, which are evaluations of temporary programmes in social work. The source materials are documents and interviews. The results show that findings from evaluations of temporary programmes are sparingly used in social work. Evaluations seem to have unclear intentions with less relevance for learning and improvement. In contrast, the evaluators themselves are using the data for new purposes. These empirical findings are elaborated further by using the knowledge form phronesis, which can be translated into practical wisdom. The overall conclusion is that social work is in need of knowledge that social workers find relevant and useful in practice. In order to meet these needs, researchers and evaluators must broaden their knowledge view and begin to include practical knowledge instead of solely relying on scientific knowledge when conducting evaluations. Finally, a new evaluation model is suggested. It is called phronesis-based evaluation and is argued to have great potential to address and include professionals’ praxis-based knowledge. It advocates a view that takes social work’s dynamic context into serious consideration and acknowledges values and power as important components of the evaluation process.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:25:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silzia A C Pietrobom.pdf: 1278047 bytes, checksum: c74aeea20113e9fcfb2fa0cae3efd6ba (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-12-19 / Admitting that there are some discussions concerning the scientific character of law, this research begins with an approach on today s scientific knowledge. From this, it was tried to put the law in two contexts: first, the scientific one and second, in the field of systems theory, which methodologically directs the paper. Under a systemic perspective it was aimed to demonstrate that the law knowledge is structurally linked to the National Constitution. In this aspect, it was highlighted the acknowledgement of the existence of a constitutional system, which required some studies about the material theories and the Constitutional hermeneutic criticism. The study of the principles of constitutional process was performed aiming to establish a connection between the constitutional hermeneutic and the processual law. Still concerning the system theories, the adopted theoretical referential was explained by presenting the fundamental and basic concepts of the Luhmann´s autopoietic theory through which the study object was examined. The process historicity was performed demonstrating that its problems that are being discussed at present, are part of its existence throughout the time, therefore, the dissatisfaction with the jurisdictional role is historical. After presenting the analysis over the process instrumentality in the modernity context, it was adopted as a referential the paradigm crisis, as proposed by Boaventura de Souza Santos, aiming to verify the present conditions of the juridical system concerning the social, political and economical systems. In conclusion, it is possible to state that those problems related to the practical performance of law are systemic, and so, it is very difficult that dogmatic and other proposals, which focus the law as a close system, will succeed in obtaining a fast and fair jurisdictional performance / Admitindo-se que há discussões a respeito do caráter científico do direito, a pesquisa é iniciada com uma abordagem sobre as condições atuais do conhecimento científico. A partir disso, procurou-se contextualizar o direito cientificamente e no campo da teoria dos sistemas, a qual orienta metodologicamente o trabalho. Sob uma perspectiva sistêmica, tratou-se de demonstrar que o conhecimento do direito está estruturalmente vinculado à Constituição Federal. Neste aspecto, foi destacado o reconhecimento da existência de um Sistema Constitucional, que demandou estudos sobre as teorias materiais e a hermenêutica crítica da Constituição. O estudo dos princípios Constitucionais de processo foi realizado com o objetivo de estabelecer uma conexão entre a hermenêutica Constitucional e o direito processual. Ainda quanto à teoria dos sistemas, foi explicitado o referencial teórico adotado, apresentando-se os conceitos básicos e fundamentais da teoria autopoiética luhmanniana, através da qual o objeto do estudo foi examinado. A historicidade do processo foi realizada demonstrando-se que os seus problemas, atualmente em discussão, fazem parte de sua existência ao longo do tempo, portanto, a insatisfação com a prestação jurisdicional é um fenômeno histórico. Apresentada a análise sobre a instrumentalidade do processo no contexto da modernidade, tomou-se como referencial a crise dos paradigmas como proposto por Boaventura de Sousa Santos a fim de verificar as condições atuais do sistema jurídico em face dos sistemas social, político e econômico. Conclui-se por afirmar que os problemas ligados à realização prática do direito são sistêmicos, logo, dificilmente propostas dogmáticas que enfoquem o direito como sistema fechado terão êxito na obtenção de uma prestação jurisdicional célere e justa

A inclusão de aspectos referentes à natureza da ciência no ensino de ciências naturais tem sido amplamente discutida e investigada nos últimos anos. As diversas pesquisas apontam concepções sobre a construção do conhecimento científico tanto por alunos quanto por professores. Em relação a estes últimos, constata-se dificuldade na interpretação de situações científicas (correspondentes aos acontecimentos da ciência, construídos ao longo da história e em contextos diversos, que compõem o currículo das áreas do conhecimento) e essa interpretação relaciona-se com as concepções sobre a ciência presentes em suas práticas. Da mesma forma, as concepções sobre a ciência influenciam as interpretações de professores em formação. A presente pesquisa, de caráter qualitativo, apresentou como objetivo investigar um grupo de professores em formação do curso de Ciências - Licenciatura da Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp), por meio do oferecimento de uma disciplina eletiva, que foi cursada integralmente por 19 licenciandos. A intervenção ocorreu em nove encontros semanais de quatro horas, no primeiro semestre de 2015. A disciplina eletiva foi dividida em quatro momentos e todas as atividades foram planejadas para incentivar os licenciandos a expressarem, por diferentes formas, suas concepções sobre a ciência. Como fundamentação teórica utilizou-se o estudo da natureza da ciência, procurando investigar se, por meio de atividades com caráter explícito e reflexivo, haveria a apropriação da natureza da ciência por parte dos professores em formação e, adicionalmente, se essa apropriação poderia favorecer a interpretação de situações científicas. Os diversos instrumentos de coleta foram elaborados e aplicados no decorrer dos encontros: utilização de questionários, desenhos, imagens, atividades experimentais, seminários, relatos de impressões dos seminários, elaboração de perguntas sobre os temas dos seminários e sequências didáticas pelos licenciandos. A análise dos resultados foi construída apresentando-os nos diferentes momentos programados para a disciplina. Por intermédio do cruzamento dos resultados, foram observadas alterações nas concepções iniciais dos participantes, bem como o reflexo em suas produções (sequências didáticas - SD). Além disso, foi possível construir o que se denominou \"trajetórias\", visando entender o processo de formulação ou reformulação de novos significados por parte do grupo. Esse procedimento possibilitou verificar que a apropriação da natureza da ciência não ocorreu de forma única pelos licenciandos, o que foi percebido nas atividades pedagógicas por eles elaboradas. Os licenciandos atingiram diferentes níveis de apropriação da natureza da ciência, e essa construção de significados foi identificada em suas sequências didáticas. O propósito da pesquisa foi atingido, na medida em que essa intervenção foi planejada para possibilitar o debate e o compartilhamento de ideias sobre a natureza da ciência entre os participantes. O presente trabalho trouxe contribuições e sugestões que auxiliarão o planejamento de ações que envolvem o estudo da natureza da ciência na formação de professores de ciências. / The inclusion of the aspects of the nature of science in the natural science teaching has been broadly discussed and investigated in the last years. Several researches highlighted conceptions about the construction of scientific knowledge both students and teachers. Regarding to teachers, it is possible to identify difficulty in the interpretation of the scientific situations (which correspond to the events of science, built throughout history and in different contexts and make part of the curriculum of the areas of knowledge) and this interpretation is related with the conceptions on science present in their practices. Likewise, the conceptions on science influence the teachers training interpretations. The present research, qualitative in nature, aimed to investigate a group of science teachers training course at Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp) through offer of the elective subject, in which nineteen pre-service teachers participated fully. The intervention occurred in nine weekly meetings of four hours in the first semester in 2015. The elective subject was organized in four moments and all activities were planned to encourage the pre-service teachers to express their conceptions on science in different ways. As theoretical framework the study of the nature of science was adopted and searched to investigate whether through the activities with explicit and reflective approach would have the appropriation of nature of science by the pre-service teachers and, in addition, whether this appropriation could favor the interpretation of the scientific situations. Different instruments of collection were designed and applied during the meetings: questionnaires, drawings, images, experimental activities, seminars, account of impressions of seminars, creation of questions about the themes of the seminars and didactic sequences planned by the pre-service teachers. The analysis of results was built showing it in different moments planned for elective subject. Through the crossing of the results, some changes in the initial conceptions of the participants were observed, as well as the influence in their productions (teaching and learning sequences - TLS). Moreover it was possible build the called \"trajectorys\" in order to understand the process of formulation or reformulation of new meanings by the group. This procedure allowed to check that the appropriation of nature of science did not occur in only one way by the pre-service teachers and these differences were noted in the pedagogical activities created by them. The purpose of this research was achieved, as the intervention was planned to allow the debate and the sharing of ideas about nature of science among participants. This work brought contributions and suggestions that will help the planning actions in which involve the study of the nature of science in the science teachers training.

A presente pesquisa propõe-se a investigar de maneira interdisciplinar, a produção do conhecimento científico por meio da criação de texturas sonoras, como interfaces conceituais hipermidiáticas autônomas, capazes de promover a experiência estética com conceitos acadêmicos. Começaremos abordando a ampliação da escuta proposta por Schaeffer, Schafer, Nancy, Oliveros, dentre outros. Em seguida, a partir das proposições e interlocuções oferecidas por Sérgio Bairon acerca das texturas sonoras, localizaremos suas origens na hipermídia, bem como as características e o modo de ser herdados desta, que fazem delas ambientes hipermidiáticos. Chamaremos outros autores ao diálogo, entre eles, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Lucia Santaella, Edgar Morin, Michel de Certeau, Gilbert Durand, Lorenzo Vilches, Massimo Di Felice e Pierre Levy, que contribuirão nos proporcionando um entendimento mais amplo, sobre os contextos sociais, culturais e tecnológicos que tornam produções hipermidiáticas, a exemplo das texturas sonoras, uma alternativa promissora e viável para a renovação metodológica nas práticas científicas, que, ainda hoje, têm, quase que exclusivamente na escrita, a única forma confiável de representação da verdade e do real. Estes autores também nos ajudarão a compreender as capacidades e as formas de pensamento necessárias ao pesquisador, no contexto de produções hipermidiáticas. Identificaremos as interfaces da escrita sonora e, ao final, analisaremos texturas sonoras produzidas para três disciplinas ao longo do curso, oferecidas por diferentes programas de pós-graduação da Universidade de São Paulo. / The present research proposes to investigate in an interdisciplinary way, the production of scientific knowledge through the creation of sound textures, as autonomous hypermiditic conceptual interfaces, able to promote aesthetic experience with academic concepts. We will start by approaching the amplification of the listening proposed by Schaeffer, Schafer, Nancy, Oliveros, among others. Then, from the propositions and interlocutions offered by Sérgio Bairon on sound textures, we will locate its origins in hypermedia, as well as the characteristics and the way of being inherited from this, which make them hypermediatic environments. We will call other authors to the dialogue, among them Hans-Georg Gadamer, Lucia Santaella, Edgar Morin, Michel de Certeau, Gilbert Durand, Lorenzo Vilches, Massimo Di Felice and Pierre Levy, who will contribute by providing us with a broader understanding of the social, cultural and technological contexts that make hypermedia productions, such as sound textures, a promising and viable alternative for methodological renewal in scientific practices, which, even today, have exclusively in writing, the only form of representation of truth and reality. These authors will also help us to understand the capacities and the forms of thought necessary to the researcher, in the context of hypermidiatic productions. We will identify the interfaces of writing of sound and, at the end, we will analyze sound textures produced for three disciplines throughout the course offered by different post-graduate programs of the University of São Paulo