Instinto colaborativo: como a Wikipedia se apropria das potencialidades do meio para atingir seu objetivo

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyse Wikipedia communicative effectivity which creates a binding with their collaborative real-time editors, having as reference Charles Peirce’s theory of Abduction which is based upon instinct and describes an inferential method non-bounded exclusively to scientific domain that is capable of clarify the ways a cognition act is formed when exposed to a situation to which there is no embedded habits. Supported by Peirce’s investigative theory, this investigation departs from his concept of doubt and belief as well as his categoric opposition to the Cartesian argument of intuition, in order to understand this concept of instinct and its role in the investigation and apprehending of a new sign matrix. Subsequently, we use his theory of synechism in order to develop the notion of evolution and continuity in the sign of Wikipedia platform. In our investigation, we hold to the hypothesis according to which the presence of multiple signs, whose appreciation is needed to take part in Wikipedia, compromises the instinctive collaboration, leading to a high dropout rate among users. Seeking to understand the multicode appropriation and its instinctive potencialities, applying a quiz to newly-registered users in the Portuguese version of Wikipedia during one week, assessing their first perceptions about the platform. Their answers and our later analysis uphold the presented conclusions in this study.