Mediations as the object of research in brazilian journals of information science and related areas

Rocha, Eliane Cristina de Freitas

doi:10.20396/rdbci.v18i0.8659245/22709

Eliane Cristina de Freitas Rocha

Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil / e-mail: prof.lili.rocha@gmail.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4606-016X

Types of post-custodial mediation	Characterization
Institutional	It is part of traditional cultural institutions, such as Libraries and Archives, and is exercised by specialized mediators, such as librarians and archivists, but, at the same time, it is shared with information technology specialists and designers, who are responsible for making the website through which the collections on deposit are made available.
Distributed and/or shared	It occurs in certain types of digital services and media, such as websites and blogs, belonging to collective entities and individuals, where there is the mediator(s) who locates, digitalizes, selects and makes available content, there is the designer and the company that sells or freely provides the application and there are adherents to the service who are invited to actively intervene with content and comments.
Cumulative	As technological possibilities (new solutions and products) are innovating and expanding further, the role of the "prossumidor" (producer and user) grows enormously, developing a type of cumulative mediation that can encompass design and programmer, and that produces effects and is conditioned through active participation in communities that aggregate identical or similar interactions.

	Mediation (general sense): Transforming action between subjects. Requires subject(s) mediator(s) and subject(s) mediated, relations of reciprocity, sharing. It is different from intermediation, which does not provide for sharing, which serves the reproduction of what is given.	Mediatization (general sense): Process resulting from the action of the technical environment present in the mediating action.
Macrosocial processes Mediation on the vertical axis	Cultural mediation: mediating action involves understanding the processes of cultural production and the concept of culture. The mediating agent can be a maker, animator or facilitator of the processes of cultural creation.	Mediatization of corporate culture and processes. Cultural production linked to technical and societal processes in a logic that can be massified or the fruit of decentralized processes in reticular forms of cyberculture.
	Social mediation: mediation that concerns the formation and creation of groups, of collective movements.
Institutional processes Mediations on the vertical axis (in social order)	Institutional mediation: mediation that concerns the role of institutions in shaping social relations. Archival institutions (they mediate the relationship of the man/society with the documentary records of his actions). They require processes of: → Documentary mediation (management of archival documents, usually implicit); Information equipment (libraries, documentation centers): they measure the relationship of the man/society with the knowledge records). They require processes of: → Documentary mediation (usually implicit); reading mediation (usually explicit) → Reading mediation (usually explicit character) Institutions of memory (museums, memory centers): they measured the relationship of man/society with social memory and heritage. They require processes of: → Cultural mediation, explicit social mediation (actions with social movements instituting heritage) Cultural industry and independent cultural producers (publishers, major media) → Cultural mediation and social mediation (care for the founding movements of new ways of life and cultural manifestations)	Extra-institutional mediation (strongly related to the mediatization process) Outside of established organizations → Distributed mediation, cumulative mediation, dismediation Centrifugal movement of institutions → Postcustodial mediation
Interactive situation Mediation on the horizontal axis	Socio-cognitive mediation: a process in which the sharing of meanings between mediator and mediated by means of shared language (language that needs to be socially shared and cognitively decoded by processes of semiosis) occurs. It requires learning mediation processes in formal and non-formal spaces, as understood by Gohn (2006GOHN, Maria da Glória. Educação não-formal, participação da sociedade civil e estruturas colegiadas nas escolas. Ensaio: aval. pol. públ. Educ., Rio de Janeiro, v.14, n.50, p. 27-38, jan./mar. 2006.): mediating action that takes place in institutionalized settings (formal education - schools, non-formal education - institutionalized spaces, such as museums) or in non-formalized settings (informal education). The mediated is the one who learns, while the mediator almost always assumes the posture of a "teacher". It usually happens through explicit mediation processes.	Technical mediation: process that takes the technical tool used in the role of mediating agent, as an actor in the relationship. Example: when interacting with a bank application, the application becomes a mediating agent of the user with some banking institution; when interacting with a NIS, the interface of the system helps to shape the questions of the user for locating references; when interacting with a virtual guide in a museum, there is also the action of the interface of your program helping to configure the relation of the user with the displayed works.

Area	Journals	Total summaries analyzed
Systems of Information	JISTEM (Journal of Information Systems and Technology Management)	3
Archival Science	Agora	4
Archival Science	Informação Arquivística (Archival Information)	1
Library and Information Science	Biblionline	9
	Ciência da Informação (Information Science)	15
	Em Questão (At issue)	22
	Informação & Informação (Information & Information)	27
	Informação e sociedade (Information & Society)	17
	Perspectivas em Ciência da Informação (Perspectives in Information Science)	16
	Pesquisa Brasileira em Ciência da Informação e Biblioteconomia (Brazilian Research in Information Science and Library Science)	20
	RBD - Revista Brasileira de Biblioteconomia e Documentação (Brazilian Journal of Library Science and Documentation)	11
	RBDCI - Revista Digital Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação (Digital Library and Information Science Magazine)	13
	Revista Ibero-Americana de Ciência da Informação e Tendências da Pesquisa Brasileira em Ciência da Informação (Ibero-American Journal of Information Science and Brazilian Research Trends in Information Science)	13
	Transinformação (Trans information)	7
Museology	Anais do Museu Paulista (Annals of the Paulista Museum)	5
	Cadernos de Sociomuseologia (Journal of Social and Museum Studies)	3
	MIDAS	15
	Museologia e Interdisciplinaridade (Museology and Interdisciplinarity)	6
	Museologia e Patrimônio (Museology and Heritage)	4
	Revista Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Journal)	3
Total		214

Area	Research/intervention site (Cultural, information equipment, groups or organizations cited)	Cited research or intervention techniques
Information Science and Library Science	University libraries (10); cultural groups, social groups (8); government agencies such as the Ministry of Health (8); networks, internet and applications (8); networked libraries or libraries (6); press or film vehicles (4); libraries (no type specification) (3); organizations for digital inclusion (3); private or commercial organizations (3); research laboratories (2); public library or community library (2), universities; memorial; archaeological heritage; school; archive.	Interviews, non-participating observation, carrying out tasks, workshops, questionnaires, participant observation, census survey.
Museology	Museums of diverse nature (historical, science (2) and technology, art, archaeology), archaeological site, visitors, cultural communities and groups, religious groups, school, urban space (general); environmental heritage; cultural heritage; archive.	Participant observation, interviews, oral stories, narrative interviews, observation, conversation wheels, tasks, interviews, bibliographic research, documentary research, case study.
Archivology	Not quoted.	Not quoted.
Information Systems	Parliament (Assembly)	Questionnaire

	Non- participatin g remark	Participan t remark	Intervie w	Narrativ e intervie w or oral history	Work - shop	Performin g tasks	Questionnair e	Bibl. revisio n or doc.	Wheel of conversatio n	Other s	Total
LIS
Experienc e Reports	3	2	2	0	3	6	2	1	0	4
Empirical studies	3	3	2	0	1	1	7	1	0	0
Total	6	5	4	0	4	7	9	2	0	4	41
% Relative	14,63	12,20	9,76	0,00	9,76	17,07	21,95	4,88	0,00	9,76	100 %
Mus
Experienc e Reports	2	2	2	1	0	4	0	4	1	1
Empirical studies	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
Total	2	4	3	2	0	5	0	5	1	1	23
% Relative	8,70	17,39	13,04	8,70	0,00	21,74	0,00	21,74	4,35	4,35	100 %

Area	References cited
Information Science and Library Science	González de Gomez; Pierre Lévy; Deleuze; Lovelock; Le Coadic; Wright; Vergueiro; D’Affonseca; Condemarian; Blonquist, Foucambert, Calafange; Nutti; Freitas; Santos; Navas; Simeão; Almeida Junior; Masetto; Henri Giroux (1), Rafael Capurro; C.A.A.Araújo; Partridge, Helen; Lee, Julie; Munro, Carrie; M. Egan E J. Shera; Habermas (3); Edgar Morin; Foucault; Althusser; Freud; Lacan; Gesner; John Dury; Régis Debray; Echeverria; Flores; Maturana; Barbero ; Benor, Harrison E Baxter; Ginzburg;Bauman; Ortega y Gasset.
Museology	Paul Otlet; Dean, Davallon, Wagensberg; Emmanuel Lévinas, Jean Piaget, Vygotsky, Paulo Freire; Charles Esche; Arendt; Giroux (1); Stuart Hall, Maurice Halbwachs; Paul Ricouer, e Pierre Bourdieu.
Archivology	Not quoted
Information Systems	Not quoted

Area	Ways of Mediation	n	Detailing
Library and Information Science	Macrosocial process (social vertical)	53	Discusses cultural mediation (public policies on culture; Archives in culture; concepts of cultural mediation and art mediation). Reports on social mediation processes (interventions to create community blogs, improvement of citizenship conditions, reading mediation in community contexts, possibilities of social inclusion). Discusses the role of media vehicles in the social context. Discusses the concept of mediation in general. Discusses the mediatization of culture.
Library and Information Science	Institutional processes (institutional vertical)	62	It discusses information mediation (concept, information mediation in archival practices, mediation in the capital market); reading mediation and reader training, without addressing specific situations; documentary mediation in
			more or less institutionalized scenarios (highlights implicit dimensions of the process, such as indexing, cataloguing, tagging); mediation outside the traditional settings- extrainstitutional mediation (health context, digital information networks, discussion on dismediation and technologies); mediating role of the library and librarians in various contexts (public library, university library, information networks, health context).
	Interactive situations (horizontal)	54	It addresses specific situations/ mediation experiences: evaluation of digital inclusion programs with a sociocognitive perspective, evaluation of library reference services, the librarian's performance for informational competence. Addresses technical mediation issues: discusses the use of interactive tools in mediation (such as Facebook in reference services, for example); medialogy, in general; discusses information architecture.
Museology	Macrosocial process (social vertical)	7	It deals with the role of an artist, discusses how to preserve the manifestation of material and immaterial culture of a Portuguese region, discusses the concept of a museum, the categories of heritage and museum, discusses archaeological work for understanding the urban landscape, discusses the experience of collecting testimonies, discusses the nature of various equipment (museum, park and show house).
	Institutional processes (institutional vertical)	20	It discusses musealization, patrimonialization, social and educational role of the museum, processes of cataloguing museological documents, processes of circulation of material culture, production and circulation of works mediated by museums. Presents archaeological works and experiences of mediation with communities. It discusses the mediation of collective memories of a community through a community museum.
	Interactive situations (horizontal)	10	It describes processes of training of science museum mediators, forms of appropriation of the museum by the school, by the teachers. It speaks of specific educational actions. Discusses the mediating object in actions of involvement of the visitor with the museum. It speaks of symbolic mediation (internalization) in museums. Points out possibilities of mediation processes in museums, including accessibility and exhibitions. Discusses the museum's interlocution and biology through collections. Discusses the concepts of autonomy and heteronomy of the user of information. Talks about interaction with objects in exhibitions and interactivity.
Archival Science	Macrosocial process (social vertical)	1	Discussion about the performance of archival institutions in society.
	Institutional processes (institutional vertical)	4	Discussion about documentary mediation process carried out by professionals and about the performance of the archival institution in relation to its institutional missions.
	Interactive situations (horizontal)	0	No summaries were presented with reports of sociocognitive and technical mediation processes in relation to users and audiences.
Information Systems	Macrosocial process (social vertical)	0	There is no discussion of the role or social function of systems and their forms of mediation.
	Institutional processes (institutional vertical)	1	Discusses the performance of IT in governance processes in general.
	Interactive situations (horizontal)	2	Discusses projects of IT appropriation in Distance Education and among the elderly.

[TFN10] Source: Adapted from SILVA, 2009SILVA, Armando Malheiro da. Mediações e mediadores em Ciência da Informação. PRISMA.COM, n.9, p. 68-104, 2009. Disponível em http://revistas.ua.pt/index.php/prismacom/article/view/700/pdf. Acesso em out.2017.
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