Construção e acionamento de um modelo de mediação da informação

Abstract

It discusses the theoretical constructs surrounding the creation and activation of a mediation model of information, in order that this model can facilitate the production of knowledge through the implementation of information and actions promoting information skills, encouraging the process awareness of the residents of a community popular urban. This is ongoing research in the Postgraduate Program in Information Science at the Federal University of Bahia, whose empirical field is the Santa Clara Community (SCC), in the city of João Pessoa. It is based on the theoretical and methodological principles of Information Science with emphasis on its social paradigm, which states that knowledge needs to be built collectively with a dialogic research subjects. Aims to analyze the current information system of the Community, after practice in the search field, where you can check the changes in the socio-communicational networks. It is understood that the work of the information professional, this social context as an organizer and mediator, can facilitate the access and use of information in support of the appropriation by the protagonists of these actions, the information they need to leave the state exclusion that are informational. We conclude that it is possible to promote a movement to socialize information in search of critical awareness, understanding of social reality by community residents, valuation of its power of belonging and sense of feeling included in the information society.