Mediation, culture, and identity
conscious action by information mediators
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https://doi.org/10.1590/1808-5245.32.148961Keywords:
information mediation, identity, culture, social markers of differenceAbstract
This research aimed to highlight the influence of information mediators on the strengthening of culturally-associated identity. The methodology is descriptive, qualitative, and uses a case study method. The sample consisted of librarians and archivists who are members of research groups focused on information mediation and are linked to InfoHome. The research process identified categories based on the content extracted from the responses, such as aspects of territoriality; social markers; life convictions; informational devices; and discursive foundations based on theoretical foundations. This categorization revealed an increased awareness among respondents of their mediation practices when searching for identity traits within the user community. It was also highlighted that these respondents consider in their practices the social markers of differences that were explicitly associated in the statements of seven respondents, who linked to some extent the cultural practices linked to themselves, their collective, and the people who, in their plurality, make up the user community. These results allowed us to verify the need for conscious mediation practices that consider the identity traits of the subjects, by identifying their singularities arising from the differences that mark their existence. Such markers are the reason why they fight for social reparation and the resignification of the practices that include (or exclude) them from society, among these, information mediation practices.
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