Desafios para a Biblioteconomia e a Ciência da Informação na era da pós-verdade

Abstract

This live is part of the Information Records project: dialogues between Librarianship, Archival Science and Information Science (CI); coordinated by the Superintendent of the University Library System (SIBI/UFBA), Professor Ivana Borges Lins, in partnership with the Information Science Institute (ICI)/UFBA. Live mediated by Prof. Dr. José Carlos Sales (ICI/UFBA). Prof. Dr. Carlos Alberto Ávila Araújo (Federal University of Minas Gerais - UFMG) when addressing the topic, spoke about the role that information plays: in the process of knowledge, in the perception that human beings have of reality and for the basis of the actions of individuals in the world. The professor highlighted that all scientific production must be an instrument to improve the condition of human life and questioned what to do when part of the cultural, intellectual and human productions are false, produced to deceive and/or lead someone astray. He pointed out challenges for Librarianship and Information Science: people's beliefs override real facts and the consequences caused by these convictions. Common sense, religion, arts, science were cited and explained as ways of knowing the world. Information Science was born linked to scientific-technological knowledge, this interdisciplinary field takes care of the flow of scientific knowledge, preservation, dissemination that will determine quality through the ranking of journals, authors, citations, explained Carlos Alberto Araújo; in addition to explaining about: the birth of post-modern science; political, military and religious groups that promote “anything goes” based on the relativization of the concept of truth; conspiracy theories of post-conspiracy thinking and denialism; cited and explained factors (studied by some authors) that interact to produce harmful effects on human values, democracy, they are: scientific denialism, exacerbation of human cognitive bias, information disintermediation, bubble effect, hate speech, post-truth.