Vertentes propositivas para a mediação da informação

Abstract

Information mediation is characterized by an articulated interference process involving information professionals and users of information resources and environments. Therefore, librarians play a significant role in structuring mediation activities in order to establish priorities in the user's dialogue, in which the notion of individual subjectivity presents itself as a characteristic of the human essence. Thus, information mediation involves a set of actions, including policies, to determine the breadth of the individual's social representation. In this context, this article has, as its fundamental purpose, to broaden the theoretical reflections on information mediation through social protagonism, user embracement and empowerment. Such conditions are understood as propositional trends operationalized as interactive dynamics that highlight the focus on the development of the user's social awareness capacities. In this study’s approach, information mediation is developed through representative attitudes to bring about changes that enable the individuals to empower themselves by becoming aware of their historical and cultural space in society. Therefore, users of libraries and information systems are admittedly treated as priority subjects of the librarian’s work in the face of the challenges posed by information mediation through implicit or explicit forms of this process.