Data discrimination: an analysis from the information science literature

• Autor(a) principal: Bagatini, José Augusto
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Milani, Suellen Oliveira, Guimarães, José Augusto Chaves
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista EDICIC
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.edicic.org/revistaedicic/article/view/162
• topic: Organización del conocimiento; Protección de datos; Datos personales; Discriminación por datos; Sesgos en la representación; Organização do conhecimento; Proteção de dados; Dados pessoais; Discriminação por dados; Vieses na representação; Knowledge organization; Data protection; Personal data; Data discrimination; Bias in representation

Representations used to organize the world go beyond the organization of the knowledge produced, and, daily, involve classifying people. This research problem stems from the act of naming people according to a capitalist logic in which what matters is how this individual can consume and collaborate for the accumulation of capital. In this way and considering the actuality and the scientific and social relevance of data discrimination, the goal is to identify how ​​Information Science literature understand this theme, especially about its approaches, emphases, and ramifications. For that, searches were carried out in the Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) and Reference Database for Journal Articles in Information Science (BRAPCI) databases, covering both the international and Brazilian contexts. The corpus obtained was submitted to the domain analysis method, which aims to identify and categorize a universe of content from its production contexts. The topic is new and demands collaborative and interdisciplinary work. It is concluded that the discussions are predominantly published in journals that address professional practices, including archival discussions and discussions about information ethics. The concern of the literature in characterizing distinctive features of this theme in an aggregating way reveals that it can act as an investigative inter-topic in different areas.