Disinformation as support of the intersection between informational literacy and subject representation

Abstract

Its approaches the intersection between information literacy and subject representation, under influence of the phenomenon of disinformation. It intends to incorporate the librarian technicist perspective with the user's conception, in the selection and manipulation of information, considering the falsification and the growing distortion of contents, characteristic of social media, which encourages rethinking and rediscussing the phenomenon from an informational perspective. It aims to talk theoretically the link between the instances of information processing and use, in the form of subject representation and information literacy, based on the pillar of disinformation. It constitutes qualitative theoretical-descriptive research, based on literature review in the area of Library and ​​Information Science. Focuses in journal articles obtained from the Base de Dados Referencial de Artigos de Periódicos em Ciência da Informação, searching to the term misinformation, besides proceedings and book chapters, essential for characterization of the information literacy and subject representation. It demonstrates, in the theoretical link, the necessary joint action of librarians, institutions and users in the decrease of the disinformation. It is concluded that the integration of information literacy and subject representation is, in a sense, instigate by the culture of disinformation, representing a means for the analytical handling of the different contents and the real decrease in your distortion. However, solving it requires integrated action by librarians, institutions and users.