Information and meaning production: the integration of reception in the documentary-information process

Abstract

Information and communication technologies are still not enough to give full answer to the matter of access to semantic information. That is why works towards methodologies of previous organization of information remain standing. The importance of the concept of reception emerges when we compare information society to mass society. Are recurrent matters the ones of how to observe such category (reception) in the documentary procedures, how to understand it within the social flow of information and knowledge, but the answers have been shy. The present work intends to integrate the category of reception in the documentary procedure through the notion of interaction, replacing the idea of ideal user for the one of social subject. We presupose that a information recovery system presents itself as a meaning production machine, taking into account a documentary language that includes options according to qualified specificities of informational demands.