A rede epistêmica da informação gênero-sexualidade na Ciência da Informação

Abstract

Systematize an epistemic network of gender-sexuality information, within the scope of Information Science, taking as a reference the relationships between themes, co-authorships and institutions. It is a descriptive research that has as its study material the scientific production on gender-sexuality information made available in the Database in Information Science (BRAPCI), in the period from 2009 to 2019. It is also characterized as bibliographic research with qualitative and quantitative approaches. The data were organized in graphs and graphs, enabling discussions based on Social Network Analysis. The scientific findings reveal that the production on gender and sexuality information, in the analyzed period, constitutes a collaboration system composed of 77 researchers linked to 21 Postgraduate Programs in Information Science, who worked 96 LGBTQIA + themes. It is an epistemic network that is systematized around specific themes and diverse methodologies, as to the objectives, approaches and research procedures, which are structured around the collaboration of researchers, research groups, postgraduate programs graduate and institutions working in this area. The epistemic network of gender-sexuality information in Information Science is, in essence, a macro network constituted by networks of institutions, co-authorships and themes, which reveal themselves as a system of knowledge production in the horizon of improving the lives of LGBTQIA + subjects.