A epistemologia interdisciplinar na Ciência da Informação: dos indícios aos efeitos de sentido na consolidação do campo disciplinar

Abstract

The interdisciplinary is being reported in the literature of Information Science, as one of itsmain reasons. Moreover, part of the literature indicates a lack of studies conducted in this area, especially those that address the theoretical and methodological issues and production conditions that sustain it. Thus, this research sought to examine the effects of interdisciplinary sense of epistemology and their implications for the consolidation of the scientific field of information science. The research was conducted in two phases: exploratory and focused. The first sought to map the output on disciplinary integration (inter, multi, multi and transdisciplinary) int the Brazilian journals Ciência da Informação, Data Grama Zero – Revista de Ciência da Informação, Encontros Bibli Revista Eletrônica de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação, Informação e Sociedade: Estudos, Perspectivas em Ciência da Informação e Transinformação, in the period 1990 to 2008. The latter, in turn, aimed to construct the object of discourse and discursive process of integrating disciplines in Information Science. In the first phase, were mapped in 2083 (two thousand and eighty-three) articles, among them 699 (six hundred and ninety-nine) convey the discourse of disciplinary integration. These articles were pre-analyzed and organized according to three categories: journal, authorship and thematic. Since the latter two were restricted to those who convey the discourse of disciplinary integration. The indicators obtained from this mapping provided a criteria for defining the analytical corpus of the second phase. Items for consideration at the second stage were selected according to the correlation between indicators of topic and authorship. The corpus of analytic second phase consisted of items that are in the intersection between higher rates of productivity of authors (articles 7-14) and themes (General and Theoretical Aspects of Information Science, Vocational Training and Labor Market and Communication, Advertising and Publishing), a total of 100 articles. In addition to those indicators, the survey focused on these themes was centered in the light of its connection with the formalization of the scientific field of information science. From this set, we extracted the discursive sequences (DS) which were the object of analysis and argument, the theoretical and analytical devices of discourse analysis of the French line of Pêcheux. The results of this exploratory research indicate that the production of disciplinary integration in Information Science has been dispersed in journals, authors and themes. The results for the second stage show that the discourse of disciplinary integration, Information Science, is the vector interdisciplinary and is permeated by a more discursive formation, but is anchored in a dominant discourse, which is based on the determinations of informational development. This discourse uses of discursive strategies logical and practical, appealing to the natural aspects of a substantial and interdisciplinary general, deleting the diversity and mask their ideological stance. Interdisciplinary is logically placed on a stabilized space, disregarding the tensions, disputes and negotiations that exist in the field of struggle and the forces that are, putting all the burden of the social, political, economic, historical and ideological. Considers that the weakness in the processes of disciplinary integration constitutes barrier to consolidation epistemological Information Science, since this discipline is about a subversive game of techno over its epistemological field.