Banca de DEFESA: Daniela Linkevicius de Andrade

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STUDENT : Daniela Linkevicius de Andrade
DATE: 17/02/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: PPGHIS
TITLE:

"The conversation starts here". Authority patterns in Reddit history forums (2008-2018)

KEY WORDS:

Authority. Historical Knowledge. Reddit. Web History.

PAGES: 278
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

This research aims to understand how historical knowledge occurs on the web by analyzing the practices that aim to confer authority to the knowledge produced and communicated in the digital space. To this end, we focus our investigation on three history forums within the Reddit platform: r/history, r/AskHistorians, and r/badhistory, between 2008 and 2018. We consider authority as a social and historical phenomenon that presupposes a hierarchical dissymmetry accepted by everyone in the relationship, functioning as a meta concept, which means assuming that authority relations cut across historical knowledge, the latter also being inseparable from social practice. Following authority relations, we first address the hierarchical architecture of discussion forums and the systems that preceded it in the digital space. Then, we move on to understand Reddit as a platform, focusing on the dynamics of its technical sociability and the emergence of subreddits. From there, we will proceed to a deeper discussion about the concept of authority, exploring its historicity and possible transformations when inserted in the digital space. In the end, we engage ourselves in explaining what would be the process that creates and legitimates authorities in the history subreddits through the investigation of three structures that underlie this process: the user profiles, the tools and systems that organize the conversations in the forums, and the rules that address issues of production and monitoring of historical knowledge. The research indicated the complexity and plurality of the concept of authority in the digital space, mainly when associated with the construction of knowledge, highlighting, in particular, the protagonism of executive and non-executive authorities, which manifest themselves as operative authorities, epistemic authorities, among many others, which are related at all times. In this scenario, the history subreddits, by stipulating such relations between epistemic and operative authorities for the production of knowledge, sought stability, security, and intelligibility in an environment known to be open, unstable and contradictory, defending the maintenance of good methodological and theoretical practices in the forums, adapting practices very similar to those that characterize the work of historians. This panorama highlights the creative character of the concept of authority, which starts from the known to create something new. The web's transformation in the construction of historical knowledge takes place in this process of (re)creation adapted to digital materiality. Therefore, the way historians contribute to the web conversation is as important as the content they contribute, bringing to light the construction of epistemic authority through the structure of argument within the digital space.

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