Relação do capital cultural e da competência em informação para o acesso às redes sociais sobre informação científica
Resumen
The internet is recognized as one of the main sources of information for its users. It is also
known that in this virtual world, millions of people daily access social networks like Facebook.
Given this situation, it is proposed to reflect on the potential of social networks, specifically
Facebook pages, as reliable sources of scientific information. The aim is to analyze processes,
social and informational, which would be intrinsically involved in the relevant access to these
spaces, using for this purpose, the concepts such as information literacy, cultural capital and
social capital. Also seeks to promote a descriptive and exploratory analysis of the page "Science
Today" and, from it and the work of Tomaél, Alcará and Silva (2008), define a set of criteria to
evaluate the quality of a Facebook page as a source of scientific information. Finally, through
questionnaire analysis sent to fans of the page in question, try to reflect on the influence of the
level of education of users access to pages with scientific themes on Facebook. The results aim
to support the hypothesis that, in the context of the scientific nature of pages that meet the
criteria of reliability, on Facebook, access is mainly for users of higher levels of education,
relating the level of education to the concepts of cultural capital and informational literacy. It
is concluded that concepts such as information competence and cultural capital, acquired by the
subjects, are determinant in the effective use of social networks as reliable sources of
dissemination of scientific information.