Mediação da informação como prática social: os alicerces teóricos de uma pesquisa

Abstract

It presents theoretical clipping of a doctoral thesis in Information Science, whose objective focused on analyzing the production process, implementation and evaluation of an information mediation model, in order to offer theoretical and methodological subsidies for promoting social leadership the residents of a community. In this communication, we showed only conceptual foundations around the information mediation and social paradigm of this area, which led the entire walk within the field of study, like thought information provision and applied for and the subjects. The results demonstrate that the mediator, to work in a community, can help residents, leading to the knowledge of those concerned, the aspects that involve some degree of empowerment and the need for discussion of all the information necessary to plead policies, projects and actions. It concludes that the mediated information has the power to lead the subject to social leadership, urging him to actively participate in decision-making processes in the information society.