Tendências contemporâneas da Ciência da Informação: análise nas teses de um Programa de Pós-Graduação no Brasil

Abstract

Studies in the area of Information Science are guided over time under bias that cross different fields and theoretical currents from different concepts. The aim of this paper is to analyze the thematic relationship of the doctoral theses of the Information Science Graduate Program at the Federal University of Paraíba (2015 to 2019) with contemporary theories and trends in Information Science. Based on a case study, it conducts a documentary, exploratory and descriptive research with a qualitative and quantitative approach. The results were analyzed from the perspective of content analysis using the thematic analysis technique. It points out that theories or trends of research in Memory, Information Regimes, Organizational Culture, Domain Analysis and Approaches to Archivology, Librarianship and Museology predominate in the theses that make up the documentary corpus. It concludes that the doctoral works of the Graduate Program in Information Science analyzed were developed with characteristics according to the contemporary theories or trends in Information Science identified by Carlos Alberto Ávila Araújo.