Projeto observatório do racismo e da informação

Abstract

This paper aims to present the project Observatory on Racism and Information (ORI), of the Center for Studies on Performances, Heritage and Cultural Mediations (NEPPaMCs), School of Information Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais (ECI/UFMG). It analyzes the problem of the persistence of racism in networked societies, focusing in particular on the experiences currently experienced by people, groups and traditional communities of African descent in the current context of Brazilian society. In the theoretical-conceptual part, we start with authors such as Carlos Moore (2012), Stuart Hall (2006), Edward Telles (2003), Lilia Schwarcz (1993), among other intellectuals in discussing the notion of racism. It relies on Saldanha, Souza and Sales (2018) and Lima and Alvares (2012) to answer why study racism in Information Science and justify the methodological proposal of information organization in digital environments. Three dimensions of thematic content are considered, aiming to contribute to the mapping of discourses about racism in the web environment.