Habits, breaks and new possibilities of information and knowledge sharing

Abstract

The texture of the worlds we know is built on habits and conditioned by established beliefs through which we filter and conform a circumscribed universe. That building process makes it essential to understand the paths of the “Information capture and recontextualization" and also to elucidate the involvement of principles or laws that regulate and structure the ways we think and act creatively in contemporary times. The proposal of this article is to point out that Information Science, while studying the set of changes related to the establishment of new habits of the Information Society, should also provide relevant socio-cultural indicators for the understanding of our historical moment. In this realm, it presents few extracted moments from the context of these changes that regard to the continuum of the information desires and knowledge sharing. The procedure requires a significant retreat of the viewpoint, placing both movements in relation to habit and break as movements that weave relations of the world, of the humanity and of the distinct cultural changes.