Conceptual and relational approaches between university extension and information mediation

Abstract

It presents the University Extension as a fruitful dimension of academic studies and practices, and information mediation is a field of Information Science and Librarianeconomics consisting of a multiplicity of interventions aimed at providing interference in communities and contextual demands of society, whether social, cultural, educational, technological, etc. It defines as problematic the following question: What are the possible relationships between University Extension and information mediation? It aims to address the potential relationships between University Extension and information mediation considering the theoretical and practical foundations that guide both objects of study. It uses as methodological aspects the exploratory purpose, establishing dialogue with the bibliographic method, mainly using articles mapped in supraformal information channels, such as electronic journals and events in digital media, which characterizes the qualitative study. It discusses the conceptual aspects of University Extension and information mediation in an individualized way in order to perceive the driving attributes that determine the possible relationships between these dimensions. The results show that there are several possibilities of relationship between university extension and information mediation, both in the sense of how the extension appropriates the elements of mediation and how mediation can be applied to optimize extensionist practices. It concludes that the relations between University Extension and information mediation are based on the theoretical and practical aspects that act in a pedagogical and institutional way aiming at the construction of strategies, interventions and interferences worked in the academic daily life in a contextual way and directed to society in general.