Almanacs are small or large brochures, popular secular-time writings, published since the fifteenth century in Europe, produced and disseminated with multiple purposes, including circular useful information, maintaining and renewing cultural traditions, reporting the events and characters of his time. They are considered as the most complete version of the yearbooks and calendars and retain a special relationsh...
Critical epistemological conceptions, historically constituted in dialogue with the historical, social and human sciences, have questioned the fisicist, biological and cognitivist references adopted by the first theories of information, attracting to the center of the theoretical and methodological debate the social dimension of the informational object, such as its manifestation in the field of culture. By emp...
O caráter especial desse livro é a interdisciplinaridade das pesquisas. Referenciais teóricos como Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, Boaventura Santos e Norbert Elias ajudam a entender melhor o funcionamento da interligação entre informação e conhecimento, educação popular e saúde. Os textos concentram suas questões antes nos atores institucionais, para depois formular a indagação sobre como exercem o papel de ...
Knowledge, information and communication build the paradigm of the structure and functioning of the contemporary societies. Assuming the presupposition that knowledge is always conceptualized by the conditions that make it possible, and that it advances while transforming these conditions, as the non governmental organiza-tions, as spaces of knowledge production, organization and innovation. Sceneries of symbol...
O artigo pretende explorar a noção de rede, buscando algumas pistas dos seus fundamentos histórico-conceituais, suas incidências e alianças com o conceito de informação. O objetivo é situar os modos de emprego do conceito de rede em campo de estudos com pouca densidade teórico-conceitual, como é o caso da ciência da informação. Transversal como as idéias de “informação-sistêmica” ou “informação-fluxo”, o concei...
The social network of the furniture exportation consortium - Export Móveis - was studied in this work, focusing on the centrality measures as well as in the strong and weak ties of the network. The centrality measures are dealt with considering four aspects: information - which analyzes the information flows; degree - which considers the number of direct contacts; betwenness - which identifies who mediates, con...