BoDiPrint

This project aims to assess how non-academia influences how scientific research agendas are planned. The project will focus on the interconnections between academia and non-academia, and the degree of influence non-academia may have in research agendas via social media. The project will allow to predict trends in scientific research that are fed by social and cultural behaviours highly mediated by social media and popular culture. This project grows out of the importance of digital influencers. Social media and digital platforms have transformed information, its dissemination, perception and its use/re-use in cultural and public policies, research and teaching agendas. It has allowed people with shared interests to gather, expanding the horizon of ideas and possibilities of interconnections, impacting knowledge and behaviour. The project will address Forensic Anthropology (FA), and the use of Human Osteological Remains (HOR) in research and teaching as a case study. Forensic Anthropology has benefited from non-academic influences via the “CSI effect”, a phenomenon resulting from the popularity of TV dramas associated with criminal justice and crime scene investigations. This phenomenon influenced the public expectations on the realities of crime science analysis, investigation and associated scientific research, blurring reality and fiction. It has also led to an increasing number of students, scholars and universities to invest in FA, and FA-related research, including access and handling of HOR. To access how popular cultures influenced Forensic Anthropology a multi-methodological approach focused on FA and HOR digital footprint will be used. Social media and scientific outputs databases data extraction, and analysis of (co)occurrence networks using digital tools will be the principal targeted analysis used in this project. The project will show how non-academia and academia impact on each other and that research agendas are culturally co-created.

**Research funded by NOVA FCSH 6ª Edição do Financiamento Exploratório para Projetos Internacionais

Alves-Cardoso, F and Campanhacho, V. (2022). The Scientific Profile of Documented Collections via Publication Data: Past, Present, and Future Directions in Forensic Anthropology. Forensic Sciences, 2(1), 37-56. https://doi.org/10.3390/forensicsci2010004

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