Mediation of information and Habermasian communication action

Abstract

It reflects on the potencial of information mediation as a way of strengthening the social world of life in the face of the colonizing process of the world of systems, considering the current social demands in the information scope. Information Science is increasingly invited to find ways to reflect on its object as an engine of cultural development and strengthening of the social world of life, in order to reaffirm its place as a social science. In this way, mediation of the information, being present in all the actions of the informational cycle, constitutes a sustaining base of actions that contribute for Information Science to fulfill its mission and social responsibility, in the face of the ambivalences of society. Thus, Jürgen Habermas’s theory of communicative action can provide us with a possible dialogue with the theoretical approaches of information mediation, in the sense of finding points that converge to integrating axes of the social world of life. In this sense, it is understood that working with information demands conscious researches and mediators who, within the scope of Information Science, develop and take as a reference studies os information mediation that involve spheres identified by Habermas as spaces in a state of vulnerability.