Informação social, solidária e desenvolvimento local

Abstract

It analyses the phenomenon of social and solidarity information generated in local communities and the cultural mediation in which the process of production and circulation of information occurs, highlighting the info-communication. To reflect on this theme, theoretical studies were made on the concepts of mediation of the social information, which led to an approach on the “solidarity information” that will be discussed in the text. It is understood that mediate social information is where it establishes the relationship between man and humanity in their community and, for example, for which converges the reading mediation. In order to further analysis, the study is based on the theoretical approach of authors, such as, Pollak (1992), Bauman (2003), Berger; Luckmann (2004), Freire (2011), among others. Anchored by now formulated theoretical framework, the research is exploratory, developed through qualitative empirical investigation in rural communities in the State of Ceara – Brazil, in order to understand how occurs the production and mediation of the information referred in this study as an “information solidary”. Discuss these possibilities of understanding the relationships between information and the community is also approach of topics of great interest for the Information Society, because is characterized as something that converges to comprehension the social place of information, whose representations assumes both social character as a political and economical.