Regulatory environment of the information infrastructure to provide access to scientific information: notes on the distribution of information in the learning society

Authors

  • Jônatas Souza de Abreu Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Unidade de Informação e Pesquisa. Campina Grande, Brasil
  • Renato Fernandes Correia Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Departamento de Ciência da Informação. Recife, Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3395/reciis.v8i3.685

Keywords:

Learning society, Access to information, Global information infrastructure, Information society, Information policies

Abstract

This article deals with the debate of scientific information access in the context of learning society, questioning its ideological point of view and its political philosophy particularly about the access to the academic scientific information. The text presents a perspective of the information society development in Brazil, from the analysis of the concept of a global information infrastructure introduced in the early 1990s, and relates the efforts to insert the Brazilian economy in the context of the information network. It criticizes the current model of learning society and proposes a new way to deal with informational competence and with the process of “learning how to learn”. Finally, it shows new questions about the subject, including even the regulation of the networks and the need to promote effectively the free access to scientific information.

Author Biography

Jônatas Souza de Abreu, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Unidade de Informação e Pesquisa. Campina Grande, Brasil

Possui graduação em Biblioteconomia pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (2009) e mestrado em Ciência da Informação pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (2012). Atualmente é bibliotecário-mestre da Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, professor-titular da União de Ensino Superior de Campina Grande (PB), atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: memória, web 2.0, redes sociais, gestão da informação e internet.

 

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How to Cite

Abreu, J. S. de, & Correia, R. F. (2015). Regulatory environment of the information infrastructure to provide access to scientific information: notes on the distribution of information in the learning society. Revista Eletrônica De Comunicação, Informação & Inovação Em Saúde, 8(3). https://doi.org/10.3395/reciis.v8i3.685

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 3 (2014)

Section

Essays

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