Abstract

ESPINDOLA ARTOLA, Arnaldo; MOLINA CASTELLANOS, Oderay; BASANTA VASNUEVA, Yailet  and  GARCIA GONZALEZ, Mercedes Caridad. Social representation of Information Sciences studies among university students. Rev. cuba. inf. cienc. salud [online]. 2020, vol.31, n.2, e1416.  Epub June 01, 2020. ISSN 2307-2113.

Information sciences professionals may be employed by any organization generating, possessing, accessing or using information in an intensive manner. However, for some years now a decreasing tendency has been observed in the number of students majoring in Information Sciences at the University of Camagüey. The purpose of the present paper is therefore to characterize the social representation of Information Sciences studies among university students. To achieve such an end, systematization was performed of a number of theoretical referents related to social representation from the perspective of social psychology. Next, a descriptive study was conducted at the University of Camagüey applying the empirical research methods of group interview, composition technique and survey. The main results obtained suggest that social representation structuring of Information Sciences studies by university students is expressed on a surface level, reflecting a situational-contextual character whose contents are determined by social imagery, the work of school librarians and their teaching practice.

Keywords : Social representations; social imagery; information sciences; university students.

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