Ciência da Informação: visões e tendências

Information Science: visions and trends brings together a diverse range of views and voices about Information Science. Teachers and researchers from universities in five countries, Portugal, Brazil, Spain, Germany and Mexico explore and problematize the origins, evolution, theoretical and epistemological foundations of the scientific area, as pure (visions - different approaches / perspectives) and applied science. (trends - what is being followed, gaining body and materiality). Taken together, these contributions feed the vital debate about the impact of social and technological change on the concept of information, on information science teaching and research, and the important role of information in democratic societies.