This article reports the results of researches on the representations of the Information Science field, produced by researchers belonging to this area of knowledge. The representations are socially constructed knowledge, created by a community or group of subjects. The aim of this study was to get accquainted with the representations in the field of Information Science expressed by the researchers of the area in Brazil. This research fits into the qualitative type, and the research method consisted of assessing, analyzing, and interpreting the discourses originated by the group of selected researchers. After the discourse analysis, this study came to some results, central to which were the representations of the relationship between the field of Information Science and the Brazilian society. From such researchers' discourse, the article concludes, that the field of Information Science has been, since its origin, quite distant from Brazilian society reality.
social representations; scientific field; researchers - Information Science; Brazilian society