Folha de Rosto

Expedient

Hemerson Soares da Silva — 2024-01-12

Challenges and Dialogues in Mediation and Representation of Information

Gracy Kelli Martins — 2024-01-13

It is with joy and satisfaction that we present the “Dossier Critical Studies in Mediation, Organization and Representation of Information in interface with the social markers of difference”. The set of thirteen studies that make up the Dossier, organized by the Group of Studies and Research in Mediation, Information Representation and Social Markers of Difference – GeMinas, seeks to socialize research, dialogues and reflections about social markers from the perspective of research on Mediation and Information Representation, through different theoretical and methodological perspectives to strengthen critical and inclusive discussions.

Slavery monuments in ruins

Igor Oliveira da Silva — 2024-01-09

The main objective of the study is to reflect, in the light of decolonial studies, on how the ethnic-racial claims, generated within the scope of the New Social Movements, impact the resignification of national memory. This is an article for whose development a sociocultural approach to information was adopted, which focuses on the global protests caused from the year 2020 on about public monuments built to honor characters linked to the slave trade, colonialism and the various expressions of racism. As a methodological procedure, an exploratory research was carried out through a literature review. It presents some discussions about the (de)coloniality of power and knowledge, to give visibility to the knowledge produced by groups that did not integrate the Eurocentric view of knowledge; shows how Information Science can contribute to represent the intellectual production of knowledge socially constructed by a group of subjects subordinated to the Eurocentric episteme; analyzes how the New Social Movements exercise counterpower and are built through a process of autonomous communication, free from the control of those who hold institutional power to fight colonial ties; shows how discussions about the concept of document/monument arise and relates them to the movement called counter-monument and the discursive claim that gives voice to silenced and forgotten voices; presents the historical and social context of characters such as Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) and George Washington (1732 - 1799), whose statues were removed/stoned as a result of social disputes permeated by political and ideological issues antagonistic; describes how the counter-monument reaches the Brazilian scene, starting from the monument of the São Paulo pioneer Manuel Borba Gato (1649 – 1718), whose monument was burned by movements that claimed the heroic meaning attributed to a character linked to the hunting and enslavement of Indians and blacks . The article also analyzes historic reparation initiatives. For this, it addresses the recent debate on the Federal Bill 5296/2020, the Municipal Bill 47/2021 and the role of museums in guarding controversial historical monuments that must be contextualized through heritage education. It concludes that public monuments are informative objects that represent certain historical events that awaken the memory of groups that suffered some consequence of the acts practiced by their characters.

Racial microaggressions, power and privilege in libraries

Franciéle Carneiro Garcês-da-Silva — 2024-01-09

This article starts from the following question: How are racial microaggressions manifested in libraries? The general objective is to understand how racial microaggressions manifest themselves in libraries, based on the testimonies analyzed in The Microaggressions Project (TMP) and Microaggressions in Librarianship (ML). This objective unfolds into specific objectives, which seek to: a) conceptualize microaggressions, characteristics and their spheres and b) to analyze, from the testimonies collected in the TMP and ML, how racial microaggressions materialize in libraries and in the speeches of librarians. At the methodological level, it is a qualitative documental, bibliographical, exploratory and descriptive research divided into three stages: literature review, extraction of a sample of publications that referred to racial microaggressions and analysis of publications in the profiles on trumblr TMP's and ML.

Analysis of the scientific production of quota students of the Postgraduate Program in Information Science at the Federal University of Paraíba

Felipe Arthur Cordeiro Alves — 2024-01-21

Affirmative actions are important public policies to democratize access to education and the production of knowledge. The present study is configured as a documentary, descriptive and exploratory research with a quantitative-qualitative approach. The objective of this work was to map the scientific production of quota students entering the Postgraduate Program in Information Science (PPGCI) at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), at Master's and Doctoral level, between 2017 and 2019 To form the research corpus, the Lattes Platform and the electronic questionnaire were used with the research subjects in the digital informational environment. As a result, tables and graphs were created to represent the following data: authorship, title, year, among other variables. It was concluded that the thematic plurality found in the research recovered by the study is notorious: Altimetry, Information Architecture, Fake News, Information Management, Digital Preservation, Information Technology, among others. In addition, it is evident that most of the studies retrieved are related to social markers of difference: gender, race, class, among others. The importance of continuous monitoring of the scientific production of quota students in the context of the PPGCI/UFPB, as well as in other Graduate Programs in the area of Information Science, is highlighted.

Studies on Women and Gender in Information Science:

Caroline da Silva Marinho — 2024-01-21

The present research seeks to map the studies on women and gender in Information Science (CI), from the Information Science Database (BRAPCI) in the period between 2017 and 2021. It consists of a descriptive research regarding the purposes and bibliographic research regarding the means. For data collection, the terms woman and gender were used to identify titles, subtitles, keywords, abstract or full text of the scientific production. A total of 33 articles were identified, an approximate average of 07 articles/year, with 2020 being the year with the highest number of publications and 2018 the lowest number. The journals with the highest number of publications were the Electronic Journal of Communication, Information and Innovation in Health (04 articles) and the Folha de Rosto (03 articles). The keywords with the highest number of repetitions were: Gender (12 repetitions), Woman(s) (05 repetitions), Information Science (05 repetitions), Violence against women (04 repetitions), Gender Study (03 repetitions) repetitions), Librarianship (03 repetitions). It was possible to observe that, despite the predominance of female authorship, the results found here differ from the results found by Nascimento and Oliveira (2019) in their research, since it is already possible to notice, in articles, the presence of men researching the themes of gender and women in Information Science.

Gender and Mediation

Barbara Angélica Colono — 2024-01-21

Gender and mediation studies are among the growing analyzes in Information Science. Consider and that libraries are spaces that promote the mediation of Information, especially information that allow the various women to promote the struggle for rights and face the various women of violence, a looked at the scenario of community libraries community forms, coo Nascimento belonging to Vila Flapt Cultural, located in the northern region of the city of Londrina, in Paraná. In this sense, it aimed to investigate the interaction of women residing in Londrina or who know a tab with the northern library of the city of information as an objective and possibilities of mediation and culture in this context, having as a question the context relations between genders and information. . For that, a descriptive level research was carried out, with a qualitative approach and a case study as a design. Data collection was carried out through online data analysis through content analysis, especially in the categorical analysis technique. As a result, the main characteristics of the population regarding the socioeconomic, cultural and information profile, direct or indirect contact with gender violence and the sample's relationship with libraries in general and with the Nascimentodias Community Library were highlighted. We are young women, students, perceived for the most part, just a library of women who may have strange students, contact with sexual violence and have no contact with women by disconnected students, 73% Birth and use very little as libraries as a source of information regarding women's rights. It was concluded that the researched community needs mediation practices of information and culture directed towards gender issues, especially on violence against women. An institute for the potential of turning this library into a space for sociability among women and for sharing essential information for the fight against violence. In this context, the importance of Librarianship to get closer to social struggles was highlighted.

Representation of Gender Information

Anna Raquel de Lemos Viana — 2024-01-21

Cinema brings new ways of representing reality, and seeking to understand how women are represented in this context provides data on stigmas and stereotypes that exist about them. With that in mind and given the importance of the emergence of the first female superhero character, Wonder Woman, this paper seeks to analyze the representation of the symbolic information of the female gender present in the film Wonder Woman Origin (2017). It is a descriptive research (in terms of ends), documentary and case study (in terms of means) that uses semiotics as a technique for data analysis. It concludes that, although the movie Wonder Woman (2017) is a landmark in the representation of women in cinema by positioning women in the position of a protagonist warrior, it still has the naturalization of certain gender performative behaviors, reinforcing the norms it seeks to subvert.

The subject LGBTQIAP+ in the collection of dissertations and theses at the Federal University of Pernambuco

Diogo Lopes Nogueira — 2024-01-21

This is a research on the LGBTI+ theme in collections of theses and dissertations from a higher education institution. Brazilian universities have collections and collections with a diversity of themes and subjects treated and, in this sense, it is possible to use Information Science methods to study these collections. In this perspective, the present research arises that aimed to analyze the configuration of the bibliographic collection of dissertations and theses that deal with the LGBTI+ theme present in the collection of the Institutional Repository of the Federal University of Pernambuco (RI-UFPE) available on the ATTENA platform, whose methodological path was configured from a descriptive and bibliographical research, based on bibliographic and documentary studies, with disposition and analysis of qualitative and inductive characteristics, configuring a single case study. The results showed that the themes involve combating prejudice against the community and its members, proposing reflections and projects that challenge the social structures that reinforce and validate the violence and marginalization of this population in society. In addition, it was observed that the themes also bring up issues of social movement, progress in conquests for rights and combating homophobia for lesbians and gays, with a predominance of works on male homosexuality, which contest male performance; to the detriment of women, motherhood and homosexual relationships.

As Informational practices in the fight against homophobia and the construction of information resilience

Luis Carlos da Silva — 2024-01-21

It aims to analyze if/how the informational practices constituted in the State Center of Reference for LGBTQIA+ ights and the Fight against LGBTQIAphobia in Paraíba, Pedro Alves de Souza (Espaço LGBT Pedrinho), in João Pessoa, have contributed to the development of informational resilience of LGBTQIA+ people in the context of homophobia. It is a qualitative study conducted through field research. It uses the semi-structured interview as a technique for collecting data regarding the practices of the space participants and the Collective Subject Discourse as a method for data analysis. It is observed that the process of affirmation and expression of the subjects participating in their sexual orientation was permeated by informational challenges that placed homosexuality as exclusion. The interaction with the informational environment enabled these individuals to develop daily informational practices, which contributed to the recognition of sexual orientation and the promotion of informational resilience in the face of homophobia, making them aware and with more initiatives in decision-making in the face of LGBTQIA+ contexts. It is concluded that public spaces aimed at the LGBTQIA+ population can act in the reformulation of the sociocultural and affective understanding of information about homophobia, building resilient subjects in the face of homophobic threats, insofar as they mediate information appropriate to the reality of the participants in a critical, welcoming way and collaborative.

The common, the mediation of information and social protagonism

Henriette Ferreira Gomes — 2024-01-21

It analyses the importance of the discussion about the common for the approaches of mediation of information, considered a central foundation of the specialties in the field of Information Science for the fulfillment of the social responsibility of contributing to the development of social protagonism. This is a bibliographic study with a qualitative analysis of the literature that addresses the perspective of the common, especially the approaches by Dardot and Laval, and the approaches to mediation of information and its dimensions, especially by Almeida Junior and Gomes. As a result, it was observed that the consideration of the common is central to the reach the of the dimensions of mediation that, guide by the exercise of emancipatory praxis, tends to enhance the development of social protagonism, which will imply the advancement of conscious mediation of information.

Black Feminism, Intersectionality and Information Mediation

Gisele Rocha Cortes — 2024-01-21

This article is based on reflections and studies outlined in the Study and Research Group on Mediation and Representation of Information and Social Markers of Difference (GeMinas). The interest is based on the objective of contributing to discussions on the concept of intersectionality, the epistemological basis of black feminism, in interface with studies in the field of Mediation of Information. We emphasize that this articulation is presented in this article through initial considerations, as it is part of a longer research that is in development. The theoretical article has a qualitative approach and a bibliographical nature. Black feminism and the concept of Intersectionality are addressed, in particular the intersection between gender and race, with a focus on black women. The social character of the studies outlined in the perspective of information mediation is considered, in which the interference actions outlined by information professionals, with a view to appropriating information, aim to resolve inequalities, expand world readings in a critical, dialogical perspective and transformative. Respecting the limits of the study, the aim is to contribute to the interweaving of information mediation with intersectionality, in order to strengthen the concept of conscious mediation in the recognition of the plurality of informational subjects, especially in facing the historical invisibilization of black women .

Implicit mediation of information and the social markers of difference

João Arlindo dos Santos Neto — 2024-01-22

Mediation of information refers to a continuous and complex process in which not only the classic tripod “mediator/user/information” is discussed, but attention is paid to other phenomena that permeate and influence the mediation act, such as the socio-cultural context. The article aims to discuss the role of the mediator and the ethical issues reflected in the implicit mediation of information, more specifically, in the context of the organization and representation of information and knowledge, when they seek to represent and organize concepts taking into account, also, the markers social differences. As for the methodological procedures, the article is theoretical in nature and exploratory in nature, with a bibliographic design and a qualitative approach. As a result, it presents the main social markers of difference: accessibility, social class, ethnicity, family, gender, generation/age group, race, sexuality and work; and the publications that relate to them from the theoretical foundation of mediation. It considers that the implicit character of information mediation needs to be increasingly debated and deepened, since the social cognitive dimension of the mediating action has to dialogue with its technical dimension. It concludes that the reflection on the social markers of difference has been gradually incorporated into the IC literature under multiple approaches. Even though there are few discussions, the total number of works identified on the subject represents the concern of researchers regarding the debate around the processes within the scope of the organization and representation of information and knowledge from the perspective of implicit mediation.

A Information representation about clothing under the intercultural approach

Ana Isabel Ferreira Wanderley — 2024-01-22

This article aims to analyze issues related to the intercultural approach within the representation of the domain of clothing in Information Science. In this way, national and international scientific publications from the last six years are investigated with the aim of observing whether current research on the representational processes of the textile object already signal the need to review points of view that privilege hegemonic discourses of a colonialist character, which raise the invisibility of narratives of socially marginalized groups. Therefore, an exploratory-descriptive investigation of a qualitative nature is carried out, with the adoption of the integrative review method for the collection and analysis of scientific publications on the proposed theme. As a locus of research, the Reference Database of Articles and Journals in Information Science (BRAPCI) and the Web of Science were selected. The results indicate that the theme is still incipient in the field of Information Science, in addition to the predominance of studies of a technical and empirical nature, sometimes under an archival, librarianship or museological focus. Problems about the investigative possibilities of clothing are noted, especially in its historical aspect, however, only one publication emphasizes the urgency of reviewing colonialist positions. It is concluded that it is necessary to deepen the discussions regarding theoretical and epistemic issues in order to strengthen the empirical, and ensure the eloquence of the narratives in their diversity present in the plots that make up the textile objects.

Living Libraries, in the beginning was the Seed

Natalia Duque Cardona — 2024-01-22

This article is derived from the postdoctoral research project Harvesting the word to feed life: reading education and its connection with family, peasant and community economies (EFCC): a look through cultural contexts (libraries) and academic contexts (schools), and its purpose is to present a series of ideas that, through LEO, intangible cultural heritage and biocultural heritage and peasant economies, energize the strategy: farmer's seeds, proposed in article 9 No 000464 of 2017. To do this, Through the documentary review method, the place of the library, and the seed libraries, is contextualized around the economic and ecological functions proposed by librarianship. Next, the clearly political links between Peasant Intangible Cultural Heritage, biocultural heritage and bibliographic and documentary heritage in spaces such as seed libraries are analyzed. And finally, a series of ideas are proposed to give life to a reading education program that seeks to strengthen the ACFC policy, specifically exemplified through the farmer's seeds strategy and its link with the Intangible Peasant Cultural Heritage and the LEO taking existing experiences in the library field as references. The feminine direct pronoun and object are used to address people regardless of their gender or sex.