A memória circunscrita: adoção e uso dos conceitos de memória nas dissertações do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Informação da Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Abstract

One of the themes of study interest of Information Science is the memory, that constitutes the element of research in some graduate courses in Brazil, such as the Graduate Program in Information Science at the Federal University of Paraíba – PPGCI/UFPB, with concentration in Information, Knowledge and Society and two research lines: Memory, Organization, Access and Use of Information and Ethics, Management and Information Policy. From the perception of the need to build a memory very own concept of Information Science, and after reading the article entitled "The memory concepts in Information Science in Brazil: preliminary study on the theme of occurrence in the scientific production", authored by Eliane Oliveira Braga and Georgete Medleg Rodrigues, raised up the idea of researching the concept of memory in Information Science. Thus, the main objective of this research is to apprehend how it has been appropriated and used the concept of memory adopted in the dissertations of PPGCI/UFPB, from the analysis of these academic works. The specific objectives are: to map the dissertations in PPGCI/UFPB that use the concept of memory, locate the memory concepts found in the dissertations of the research line Memory, Organization, Access and Use of Information, recognize the concepts of memory used in the dissertations of that line of research and identify the theoretical frameworks of memory used in dissertations. To make possible this study, with regard to the methodological approach, research, document character, was descriptive regarding the objectives. Information sources used were the dissertations of PPGCI/UFPB, defended between 2009 and 2014. The approach was qualitative and the information sources used was the dissertations of the PPGCI/UFPB, defended between 2009 and 2014. The chosen empirical field was PPGCI/UFPB and dissertations constituted the corpus of the research. After this realized study, the 26 (twenty six) dissertations analyzed, it was revealed the predominance of socio-anthropological and historical senses in studies related to memory, especially by repeated citation of some names as Pierre Nora, Jacques Le Goff and Azevedo Netto, Professor‟s PPGCI/UFPB, which was the most cited author in the works. Although the objective of this research wasn‟t to suggest its own concept, based on Information Science, it hopes, somehow, to contribute to the construction of the Information Science with more consistent, in the sense that the data presented may raise new discussions that they can benefit from it.