THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF MEMORY IN SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION OF INFORMATION SCIENCE

Abstract

The study, originated from a round table conference held on September 25, 2019, by the Group of Studies and Research on Culture, Information, Memory and Heritage (Gecimp), from the Department of Information Science of UFPB, results from a research to characterize the literature on memory, produced by Brazilian researchers in the area of Information Science in Brazil. It derives from inquiries about the intellectual influences from the most representative Information Science researches in the literature. It constitutes a representative corpus of this scientific production formed by two sets referring to the production on the theme: the first, composed of articles from the ten most productive researchers, retrieved from the Brapci database, from 1972 to 2018; the second is restricted to the production of PQ1 and PQ-Sr productive scholarship researchers in Information Science from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Brazil, between 2008 and 2017. In order to highlight the intellectual influences in the literature produced on the theme memory, by researchers in the area of Information Science in Brazil, the study herein points out their academic productions, the periodicals that convey this production, the keywords used and compares the production of corpora, within the academic scope of Information Science. It highlights in a more limited universe of PQ1 and CNPq Senior researchers, those with production on memory, noticing the non-coincidence between this relationship and that of the most productive researchers of Brapci. It reveals, as more expressive references by the amount of citations, the authors Foucault, Thiesen, Markusova, Mikhailov, Gilyarevskyi, Pinheiro and Richards. It concludes by showing the importance of integrating, in the interpretative analytical movements, the quotes and the theoretical texts of the emerging domains, to the broader context of the groups or institutions which include participants in the field.