Cultural information mediation

: for a relationship among information, culture and mediation in the production of senses and meanings about the real

Abstract

Mediation is a dialogic process, of interference in objective reality with the interest of enabling subjects to appropriate socially produced information, in favor of the transformation of reality. This paper aims to understand the concept of mediation, relating it to national Information Science authors perspective whom study it under sociological and anthropological sights, in a way it become posible to think information mediation as cultural information mediation. To achieve these objectives, was used in here a literature review of national and international authors to construct the theoretical framework, which support this argumentation. It discusses the conceptualization proposals of Information Mediation as the production of meaning and meanings. It addresses the possibility of thinking about a Cultural Mediation of Information, which deals with the anthropological dimension of informational phenomena as approached by Feitosa (2016) and the perspective of interculturality and decolonialism by Bezerra and Cavalcante (2020).