Mediação da informação e suas dimensões dialógica, estética, formativa, ética e política: um fundamento da Ciência da Informação em favor do protagonismo social

Abstract: Analytical study of the scientific literature that focuses on the information phenomenon, the mediation of information,socio-interactionist theories, articulating approaches of authors that situate information and the work with information ina social perspective in dialogue with approaches that focus on the mediation of information, theories socio-interactionist,communication, semiotic and linguistic theories, with the support of the contente analysis technique in intesive and recursivereadings in the identification of points of convergence between perspectives and propositions. As a result, it expandsthe dimensions of information mediation, presenting a conceptual proposition of information and discussing that theeffectiveness of mediating action depends on conscious mediation, which seeks to reach its dialogical, aesthetic, formative,ethical and political dimensions, ensuring the process of problematization for that the appropriation of information and theawareness process takes place, which contributes to the development and strengthening of social protagonism and allowsaccess, use and appropriation of information within democratic parameters, which is fundamental to the process of socialtransformations. In this perspective, it emphasizes the problematization and práxis as freirian categories that support theimportance of conscious mediation, the formation of the professional and organic intellectual of the field, as well as theproposal to raise the mediation of information and its dimensions to the condition of the theoretical foundations of ScienceInformation. Keywords: Dimensions of information mediation. Conscious mediation of information. Information – Concept.