Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

ABSTRACT In the scenario of the digital age, we start from a reflection on the challenges to the preservation of information on the web in view of the hyperinformation that travels through the network, highlighting the paths traveled between information and disinformation. We intend to address aspects of memory in the web space and take the current fake news circulation as an example that illustrates the dialectics of contemporary sociotechnical freedom. In this context, we highlight the relevance of studies of "critical information literacy" undertaken by Information Science researchers, which help to understand how the information transmitted on the Internet serves the specific purposes of certain agents and political groups, reinforcing intrinsic power elements of information regimes.Keywords: Hyperinformation; Memory; Preservation; Critical Information Literacy; Digital Age.

ABSTRACT This work aims to bring the existing relationships between Digital Humanities, as an emerging field of inter and transdisciplinary studies, and the field of web archiving, which consists of policies, methodologies and technologies that involve the selection, capture, storage,  preservation and availability of web content for access and retrospective use. Web content has a relatively short lifecycle, since content producers generally do not care about keeping online access for the long term and that several efforts are required for success fully preserving digital content. Given this, it has been observed that the sense of community, one of the characteristics of Digital Humanities, can be an important factor for a better development of archives – both nationally and for other countries in the Southern Hemisphere, since most of these countries do not have web archives and, therefore, risk losing their web content and digital memory.Keywords: Web Archiving; Digital Humanities; Digital Preservation: Research and Practice Communities.

ABSTRACT This article deals with Philology in the context of preservation and access to information, common to different sciences, such as Information and Libraria Sciences. The discussion regarding the editing of genuinely digital texts and the paths of philology in the digital humanities is presented. This discussion is based on studies  of the digital poetry of Ernesto Melo e Castro, an unpublished work in what concerns his digital production. Many problems arouse when considering the preservation of textual material linked to digital culture and many challenges will be proposed for a Philology related to the field of Digital Humanities.Keywords: Philology; Textual Criticism; Digital Humanities; Preservation and Access to Information.

ABSTRACT This article examines the contact boundaries between modern languages research and the digital culture. These boundaries extend between the analogue and digital environment in the production of knowledge and research in Brazil. More specifically, I argue that modern languages research draws on the digital culture for the development of its discipline and range of investigation. This essay is part of the ongoing study carried out by the Language Acts and Worldmakingproject and concludes that greater multilingual engagement is required within the Digital Humanities, as well as a more extensive understanding of how these two areas of contact communicate and collaborate.Keywords: Digital Culture; Research; Modern Languages; Digital Humanities.

ABSTRACT The research investigated the practices and perceptions associated with data management by researchers in Brazilian postgraduate programs in the Information Science (IC) area. A semi-structured survey was used as the research instrument, it was sent by e-mail to 341 researchers linked to the Brazilian postgraduate programs in CI. The data was analyzed through descriptive statistics techniques and thematic analysis. It was found that the data management practices conducted by the researchers need to be improved and that they have a favorable approach regarding data sharing, provided there is some formal control over them.Keywords: Research Data; Research Data Sharing; Information Science; Information Technology.

ABSTRACT Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple e Microsoft (GAFAM) today not only represent the world’s biggest financial empire but exploiting the open architecture of the Web took control of the technologies that guide private consumption and dictate times and methods of the production and access to digital knowledge. Digital Humanities cannot longer ignore the existence of this dispositif and its effects on cultural and epistemic diversity. If DH were born for preserving our cultural heritage and possibly guiding the digital transformation of humanities and social sciences, it is necessary to know the geopolitics of global communication systems, the neo-colonial ambitions of multinational corporations or the pillage of digital data, the new raw material provided by emerging countries. GAFAM plays a central role in this scenario, spearheading the hegemony of the Anglosphere which threatens to make invisible or annihilate cultural diversity. Its dominion is based on an ecosystem of devices, applications and media that on one side allow to create communities gathered around algorithms-driven experiences, and on the other penetrate each space of people’s private life – the real added value of these network giants. In this scenario, would it be possible to build a counter-narrative of the “digital revolution” designed by a monocultural private empire? However, the margins of the Global South are witnessing a number of initiatives and projects focused on the reappropriation of digital technology with the aim of protecting and preserving local territories, languages and traditions. Biocultural multipolarity seems therefore the only possible answer to GAFAM’s global pedagogy. Southern DH need to articulate this response in two urgent steps: developing a critical digital literacy and revaluing the margins as a source of innovation and social change.Keywords: DH and Global South; Geopolitics of the Internet; Digital Hegemonies; Digital Colonialism; Cultural Diversity.

ABSTRACT The present paper proposes to discuss questions about connectivity and surveillance aspects arising from the popularization of digital games developed from GPS technologies and mobile devices, so called locative games. We proposed parallels between the evolution of communication technologies and the environment, culminating in ubiquitous and interstitial models of knowledge. Since the game Pokémon GO, 2016, the most successful experiences in the area, given the wide acceptance by users around the world, we used the game information base, as well as updates implemented since the release of the game to the most recent revisions that promote the creation of an Augmented Reality map, made by the players themselves. In this way, investigations are carried out about the hybridization between physical and digital spaces, which is configured in new ways experiencing of the cities space, and the possible implications caused by the new dynamics that are suggested.Keywords: Locative Games; Connectivity; Surveillance; Pokémon Go; Digital Humanities.

RESUMEN La emergencia de las Humanidades Digitales en América Latina y el Caribe ha dado lugar al surgimiento de un conjunto heterogéneo de objetos que articulan diferentes herencias académicas y que paulatinamente se están incorporando a los currículos. Si bien puede hablarse de prácticas preexistentes, es reseñable destacar el modo en el que desde 2011 distintas asociaciones comenzaron a dar forma al campo, utilizando como lengua de comunicación científica al español y al portugués. El presente artículo propone una exploración del comportamiento asociativo de las Humanidades Digitales, principalmente en América Latina y el Caribe, aunque valora las experiencias con comunidades de la Península Ibérica. Reflexiona asimismo sobre las variables que  podrían dar solidez al campo, tales como la defensa de la cultura y la práctica de lo comunitario, lo abierto, la de los bienes comunes, y la de la lengua científica.Palabras clave: Humanidades Digitales; Asociacionismo; Comunidad de Práctica, Abierto; Bienes Comunes.

ABSTRACT The objective was to analyze the intersections among the data life cycle model elements of the DCC, DataONE and CVD-CI initiatives. It is a descriptive, qualitative and bibliographical research. It was verified that there are correspondences between stages (not always one-to-one) of the analyzed data life cycles. It was possible to verify that the CVD-CI condenses several activities in a single step, which can hinder its applicability. In general, the proposed models still need to be further detailed so that they can be directly applied by researchers/curators.Keywords: Data Life Cycle; Digital Curation; Scientific Data; Information Technology.

ABSTRACT Incorporating Digital Technologies of Information and Communication (TDICs) in education is a constant demand, and the Digital Humanities, from a South perspective, become a useful lens, by opening space for the human, in its complexity. This article discusses three experiences of application and creation of games and ludic practices in educational environments and how these can mobilize knowledge, affections, meetings and exchanges and promote practices consistent with the contexts and potentialities of educators and learners, favoring competences allied to the Digital Humanities in the critical formation of the contemporary subject.Keywords: Games; Ludic Practices; Gamification; Education; Digital Humanities.