Postgraduate Program in Information Management

RESEARCH LINES

Line 1 – Management, Innovation and Technologies in Informational Environments

This research line reflects the Program’s commitment to developing studies focused on Information Management, Innovation, and the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in their multiple approaches and objects. Based on the experience and research conducted by its faculty members, this line encompasses studies related to major thematic axes, including:

• Studies on Information Management processes in informational environments (libraries, archives, documentation centers, digital spaces, among others), in both public and private educational and cultural institutions;
• Implementation of processes and the use of information and communication technologies in informational environments;
• Scientific Communication and Open Science;
• Data Science;
• Innovation in informational environments;
• Information Literacy;
• Marketing in Information Science;
• Knowledge Organization and Representation;
• Knowledge cities and smart cities;
• Entrepreneurship and project management;
• Organizational behavior.

 Line 2 – Information, Memory and Society

This research line engages with the broader field of Information Science and its subfields, as well as with the field of Social Memory. It proposes transdisciplinary studies and research with theoretical and practical approaches aimed at exploring the triad of information, memory, and society, based on the expertise of its faculty, focusing on themes such as:

• Information, development, and citizenship in the digital society;
• Social networks and media in contemporary society;
• Information generation and flows;
• Communication and studies on scientific production and the Open Access Movement;
• Legal information management and epistemology of knowledge organization;
• Preservation and virtualization of social memory and heritage;
• Educational practices, information, and memory;
• Books and reading: history and memory – libraries, bookstores, and publishers;
• Gender and sexuality studies; social justice, racial justice, ecological justice, and gender justice;
• Black-African epistemologies in Librarianship and Information Science, Ethnic-Racial Relations and Decoloniality, Critical Race Theory in Librarianship and Information Science;
• Ethical-political action and collective social representations from a socio-phenomenological perspective;
• School librarianship and associative movements;
• Information Society, Philosophy of Information and Science, and combating misinformation.