As redes sociotécnicas de informação do Laboratório de Tecnologias Intelectuais (LTi)

Abstract

We argue that information is established from sociotechnical networks, whether through cooperation, sharing, exchange, whether through documents or computer resources. Sociotechnical networks are about clusters of technologies, people, ideas, that is, a plurality of connections with multiple inputs and outputs. In Information Science, sociotechnical networks are manifested in different ways: collaboration networks between researchers, service networks, institutional networks, etc., where the product is information, a device that modifies society. The research objective is to analyze the Intellectual Technologies Laboratory (LTi), as a sociotechnical information network for Information Science. Understand the links and arrangements that the LTi provides in the sociotechnical network in which it is inserted. When we seek to identify sociomaterial arrangements, we are tasked with looking at the arrangements and organizations in the LTi, and the parts that make up the whole. When it comes to describing the sociomaterial links, we are interested in the actions and responsibilities between these links. Methodologically, we used descriptive and analytical qualitative research, applied to the internet in the LTi, for data collection and analysis. Armed with the data, we reach the following conclusions: the existence of a profusion of technologies, in addition to the subjects, and that these are all acting in sociotechnical networks, with and among themselves; the importance and need to think about sociotechnical informational networks, as another research alternative in the field of Information Science, in order to guide a way of investigation capable of generating new perspectives on the field; all LTi sociotechnical networks have a strong relational structure (links and arrangements), where everything is related to everything; LTi's sociotechnical networks join together, for cooperation, sharing and exchange of information, that is, it is not just a sociotechnical network, but a sociotechnical informational network, in a complex heterogeneity of entities and flows and, finally, realizing the LTi phenomenon, which it is generally understood between human actors, in fact it actually arises in demonstrations through sociomaterial arrangements and links.