Area of Concentration "Information Management and Knowledge Organization”

Information is understood as a strategic resource for the design and improvement of processes, products and services in the cultural, educational, economic and social contexts. It aims at conducting studies and research on the organization, mediation, and use of information and knowledge in order to meet the informational needs of individual and collective agents

 

Research Interests: Mediation and Use of Information

Mediation is understood as an action of interference performed by information professionals, in order to promote the appropriation and use of information by social subjects in areas such as education, culture, science and technology. It aims at theoretical and applied studies on dissemination, transfer and mediation of information. It covers research on: scientific, cultural and social information; informational behavior; reading; information competence; use of information in the various informational spaces of governance, productive sectors and of interest to society.

 

Permanent Docents:

Alegria Celia Benchimol

Aline Christian Pimentel Almeida Santos

Cristian Berrío Zapata

Danielly Oliveira Inomata

Hamilton Vieira de Oliveira

Iane Maria da Silva Batista

João Arlindo dos Santos Neto

Marise Teles Condurú

Renata Lira Furtado

Tania Chalhub de Oliveira

Vinicius Augusto Carvalho de Abreu

 

Research Interests: Information Organization

Registered, socialized and institutionalized information is considered the basic foundation for the construction of knowledge in the context of Information Science. The development of theoretical and applied references about the organization of information is emphasized. It addresses the organization of information and knowledge in the processes of representation, analysis, synthesis, retrieval, access, identification of scientific and organic information, in interdisciplinary relations with linguistics, communication, administration and computer science. It aims at the development of methodologies and theories applied to the instruments, processes and products of Information Science.

 

Permanent Docents:

Ediane Maria Gheno

Fernando de Assis Rodrigues

Gilberto Gomes Cândido

Jacquelin Teresa Camperos Reyes

João Batista Ernesto de Moraes

Mônica Tenaglia

Roberto Lopes dos Santos Junior