Gender representation:

biographies of mystery and thriller writers on GoodReads

Resumen

The consolidation of Web 2.0 represented a paradigmatic shift responsible for the emergence of challenges that demand reflection on information within the digital-virtual context. Although these transformations have provided a more inclusive environment, platforms face issues related to gender equity. This research is justified by the importance of faithfully representing gender experiences in biographies on the platform GoodReads. There is a need to understand how Information Science, especially through Information Design and Digital Curation, can contribute to gender representation. The guiding question of this research is how Folksonomy can contribute to Information Design and Digital Curation of the studied environment. The study proposes a collaborative experience through Folksonomy to complement and give the biographies of female writers more visibility on GoodReads. Such resource, understood as an Information Design tool, contributes to the Digital Curation of environments. The general objective is to analyze the characterization in the biographies of authors – men and women, classics and contemporary, mystery and thriller novelists on Goodreads. The specific objectives are: to list a relevant theoretical framework on Information Design, Folksonomy and DigitalCuration in digital-virtual environments; to conduct an exploratory study on biographies of mystery and thriller writers on GoodReads from a gender perspective; to propose the use of Folksonomy on the writers’ pages on the environment. The methodology is qualitative, descriptive and exploratory in nature. The construction of the theoretical framework is based on the literature review technique. The empirical investigation was conducted through observation of Goodreads.