Abstract

RIBAS, Claudia da Cunha  and  ZIVIANI, Paula. Mediação, circulação e uso da informação no contexto das redes sociais. ETD [online]. 2008, vol.09, n.02, pp.01-19. ISSN 1676-2592.

The present work seeks to understand the mediation, the circulation and use of the information in the context of the social networks that use the technologies of information and communication (TICs) in its organization. For in such a way, a body of theoretical and empirical knowledge is apprehended and constituted in order to reflect on information networks under the optics of social networks and virtual networks as an object of study of the Information Science. Thus, it is chosen as a focus of the analysis the dynamics of the information and of the knowledge in network in the scope of the social, virtual Inter-relations and of the modality of distance education in Brazil as a possibility of virtual communities creation - proposal still little explored in the field of the Information Science. In this direction, it is investigated the arising of new social relations for the comprehension of information networks.

Keywords : Social Networks; Networks of Information; Virtual Networks; Virtual Communities; Distance Education.

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