A cultura dos memes: reflexões fundamentais de interesse à Ciência da Informação

Abstract

Memes attract the public by their humorous nature and ease of assimilation. This research seeks to recognize the importance of memes as resource of information and to establish a connection with Information Science. The goal is to analyze the memes' thematic concern through scientific articles published by brazilian magazines who are specialized in Library Science's and Information Science's fields. The research has a quality approach while, at the same time, brings theoretical reflections to identify 'meme' as a cultural phenomenon of postmodern society. Therefore, papers from the platform BRAPCI (Base de Dados em Ciências da Informação) were collected and some points were submitted to na analysis, such as authorship, journals where memes are featured, their publishing year and how they're quoted. The results are limited by a small sampling and indicate that there are few studies aimed at this area of research in the field of Library Science, despite the fact that there are pages and communities available on social media that publish memes about Information Science. Thereby, it's possible to consider that Information Science still doesn't truly contemplate 'memes' as an informational source, unfortunately.