A ciência da informação: uma reflexão sobre suas bases epistemológicas.

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Menezes, Ivandro Pinto de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraí­ba; BR; Ciência da Informação; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Informação; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Ciência da Informação; Epistemologia; Pós-modernidade; Information Science; Epistemology; Modernity; Post-Modernity; CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::CIENCIA DA INFORMACAO
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/5893

Information Science is considered a postmodern science, it emerged for the cultural, political and economic changes occurred in the mid second half of the twentieth century. Over the decades, there are produced several concepts and attempts to delimit the field, never reaching a consensus on its epistemological configuration. However, it is certain it s as interdisciplinary field, without proper methodology and conceptual delimitation or without determination of its object of study, occasioning the need for epistemological studies that reflect on your place while scientific field. Among the models of postmodern science, understood as the most suitable one proposed by Boaventura de Souza Santos, mainly by retaining a positivist dimension, giving the field a certain stability. In this sense, this research, following the path opened by Wersig, aimed at analyzing the epistemological foundations on which it rests Information Science, reflecting on his place while postmodern science, and even on its conceptual definition. The analysis confirmed that the field sits on postmodern epistemological bases, but keeping a modern/positivist dimension, regarding the determination of the object of study, namely the information, while not embracing it in its density and complexity conceptual.