Semiotic of comics: the creative process as translation of an ecology of knowledge in scientific dissemination

Abstract

The use of comics goes beyond the universe of leisure and entertainment, they are used successfully by teachers within the classroom. Currently, there is a growing increase in comics being used as scientific dissemination material (CD).This work aims to investigate, through semiotic analysis, the creative process of Biological Sciences students in the production of comics, configuring an Ecology of Knowledge in CD.In this sense, some examples of comics produced during classes in a subject of a degree course in biological sciences were chosen to be analyzed. Therefore, the analytical framework chosen was Peircean Semiotics. The results demonstrated a mobilization of previous knowledge and others acquired in the process; In addition to sharing this knowledge in favor of maintaining the group, denoting knowledge that is specific to the group in the production of comics, (codes and symbols belonging to the area of Biology combined with the language of comics), the ability to handle digital technologies; cultural knowledge, suggesting an Ecology of Knowledge specific to the group.