The presence of Habermas in information science in Brazil

Abstract

This is the third time I have the honor of participating in the Habermas Colloquium, which has provided Information Science researchers in Brazil with an encounter with the thinking of philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas. In the process, I learned from my fellow researchers and entered the network of conceptual connections that weaves the Habermas thread in the conceptual loom of Information Science in Brazil. It started in 2020, when I shared the result of an exercise on the concept of public sphere applied at the Laboratory of Intellectual Technologies – LTi. In the literature review, in Brapci, using <public sphere>, I identified 94 articles that mention the descriptor, from 1972 to 2020. Some of these articles helped me to understand the concept and apply it to mediation actions on the Portal do LTi on the web. A new search, combining <public sphere AND social networks> was necessary, only eight files were retrieved. The understanding, in the end, is that LTi's social networks can be considered as a public sphere, although they do not present the partisan political aspect present in the Habermasian approach.