Contemporaneity demands quality in the field of Knowledge Organization, in relation not only to information representation but also to information retrieval, due to the impact of new technologies on information services. In order to achieve this, it presupposes that it is possible to establish new strategies of human communications with a view to a better understanding of the relationship between language, information and contemporary social dynamics. Our aim is to problematize a conceptual discussion about discourse and memory, in order to understand how such concepts affect communication, in an attempt to understand contemporary communication practices and to establish how this understanding may contribute to information studies. Ultimately, based on Bakhtin’s notion of discoursive genre, this text concludes that it is necessary to identify new discoursive patterns, in order to form new discoursive genres, so that the information cycle is realized in an increasingly effective way.