Social information and information culture: a film analysis of " The boy who harnessed the wind"

Abstract

Seeks to reflect on the theories related to the concept of social information and information culture, that is, production/construction, communication/veiculation and consumption/appropriation, in the light of film analysis of the narrative, based on a real story, whose plot reached the cinema with the title " The boy who harnessed the wind". The objective is to understand the role of the library as a generator of social transformation, based on the participation of the librarian/mediator as part of the process of mediation of information and construction of knowledge. To do so, the concepts of culture and social information were intertwined based on the social and symbolic role of libraries, which was configured as an essential condition to relate such theories within the scope of this study. In order to ground the theories presented and their interrelationship with the flow of social information, the three dimensions addressed by Cardoso (1994) are highlighted and a table is elaborated relating historicity, totality and tension of the information with excerpts from the film studied. In this way, the relationships between the knowledge produced and the role of the library in the appropriation of information are identified, based on the diversity of processes and daily relationships experienced by the characters of the work. We conclude by emphasizing how relevant is the power of social information built through access to knowledge.