Cidadania e Direitos Humanos no campo da Ciência da Informação: uma análise das dissertações e teses defendidas nos PPGCIs do Nordeste

Abstract

This research describes the presence of scientific productions about citizenship and Human Rights in the postgraduate thesis studies in Information Science in the Northeast of Brazil, namely, in Bahia Federal Univesity, in Paraíba Federal University and Pernambuco Federal University. The objective of this thesis is to compare the presence of this theme on dissertations and thesis made between 2008 and 2018, from students belonging to Northeast's PPGCI, taken in consideration for a better analysis the contemporary subareas on information science highlighted by Araujo (2018). It is descriptive research, of quantitative and qualitative nature, built through the bibliographic and documental, whose universe studied was constructed by 379 dissertations and 32 theses. From the data collected in this research, was evidence that 15% of dissertation production and 28% oh thesis production deals about citizenship and/or human rights. It is essential to highlight the results referring to the presence of specific subareas on the majority of output with the studied themes, analysis from which it emerged that the studies which concern to political economy of information and representation and organization of data have been shown in the last decade how dialogue facilitators about citizenship and human rights in the comprehensive relationship with the Information science. So, through this research, concludes that the PGCI of Northeast has an expressive student production concerning to relevant themes to the communities academic, scientific and social about citizenship and human rights, becoming related to the consolidation of the importance of that thematic to be even more explored on postgraduation and information science in Brazil.