Contribuição metodológica para estruturação e mediação do conhecimento científico em Ciência da Informação

Abstract

Scientific knowledge is built based on rules of inference that are constantly executed on concepts and foundations that may or may not cause connections between thinkers and their pluralist reasons. One of the parameters of scientific activities is the complexity of phenomena generated by the advance of knowledge and levels of social transformation. For this reason, we increasingly need adequate tools to solve the problems of communication and scientific mediation. This thesis proposed as a general objective, to explore the DICM (Data – Information – Knowledge – Message) phenomenon of the doctoral theses of the Postgraduate Programs in Information Science in Brazil, selected in the Quadrennial of evaluation (2013 – 2016) of the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES). The specific objectives that contributed to the execution of the general objective were outlined as follows: description of the phenomenological analysis of Information Science and the perspectives of knowledge in the universal domain; characterization of structures and mediating conditions of scientific knowledge; expression of classification, categorization and codification of the knowledge of the discursive community of Information Science; reflection on the conception of knowledge structures, the social and epistemological issues involved in establishing a knowledge map for doctoral theses; and the graphic and contextual representation of the mediation of scientific knowledge in Information Science. The methodological procedures of this research used Strauss and Corbin's Theory Based on Data and Joseph Tennis's Domain Analysis for the purpose of coding the central categories, inspired by Chaim Zins and their respective subcategories. The analytical theory of categorical data demonstrated that Information Science is aligned with digital resources and contents related to the Organization and Representation of Knowledge, considering its methodological and educational bases, distributed in technological and digital environments. The most performed operation in Information Science was the evaluation of products and services in libraries and government entities. The applications, for the most part, are instrumentalized through the Organization of Information and Knowledge and are aimed at organizational and educational managers, researchers in knowledge organization and representation, and researchers in information and documentation. From the coding of the data with the help of the NVIVO software, a methodology for structuring and mediating the DICMphenomenon was established, conveyed by the scientific knowledge of the studied area.