MATERIALITY OF INFORMATION

WRITING, PRESS AND COMPUTER

Abstract

This research analyzes information through the relations between its materiality as expressed in different media. To this end, the practices of knowledge organization—specifically within the contexts of writing, the press, and the computer—are taken as the research object and examined considering the field of Knowledge Organization. The central research question is: how do the material transformations of information media reconfigure the practices and principles of knowledge organization? The main hypothesis is that this understanding and organization of knowledge is influenced by the ways in which technology reconfigures human thought and action. The method adopted is theoretical-exploratory, developed from the perspective of critical hermeneutics. The adoption of this method aims to understand how historical-epistemological practices of knowledge organization have been reconfigured. The research is expected to contribute to an understanding of the social and cultural effects of the ways in which information materializes within its historicity, and to the debate on fairer inclusion in spaces of knowledge production and circulation, as well as on qualified access to information.