O nome na hipermídia: reconstruindo o autor na cultura digital

Abstract

Authorship, author, authenticity and signature have been objects of reflections and critiques in the academic area since the emergence of the World Wide Web (Internet). Because of the easiness of publication in digital electronic systems, the authorial conception moved from the simple act of publishing, that is, to make it public, since nowadays anyone who has access to a computer and to the Internet can make something publishable, and was led to the process of authentication of what is made public. Thanks to it, there is a repetition of the process of authorial legitimation until then observed in traditional scientific fields and this ends up restraining a series of authorial experiments that are appearing in computer networks. These processes that aim to rethink the authoritarian logic of the processes of certification and for the most part are daring for reflecting a process of their time, the decentralization of power, are in open dialogue with contemporary procedures that deal with authorship, proper name and authenticity in the Internet, without the need of repeating models that were instituted up to now. Authorship and author are questioned by the view of Jacques Derrida s theory, with emphasis on his conception of signature and legitimacy of the current system of academic recognition. By means of the elaboration of an experiment that uses electronic generators of texts, the Plato on-line magazine, which is part of this work, was created with the objective of reflecting on the problems involving the proper name and the seal of approval of institutions that surround the authorial conceptions. The intention in this experiment is to present a conceptual reflection concerning the procedures and forms adopted in the Internet for the validation and dissemination of knowledge, as well as to wonder at the future of digital means in the academy and their effectiveness as an authorial model, what doesn t mean that we intend to establish a form or even a standard to authenticate and authorize a publication, since it would imply a risk of repeating the current models. This would be a nonsense if we take into account the epistemological change we were submitted to by the insertion of the digital media in the dissemination of scientific knowledge