ETHICS, JUSTICE AND INFORMATION SOVEREIGNTY

PHILOSOPHICAL REVERBERATIONS IN INFORMATION SCIENCE

Abstract

In the last decades, Information Science experienced an ethical-political shift that broadened its epistemological scope, incorporating themes historically linked to philosophy that have come to take place in debates about the production, circulation, appropriation, and use of information in digital environments, permeated by power relations. Based on a methodology of bibliographic research and qualitative analysis of the theoretical framework, the objective of this abstract is to present a brief reflection on the concepts of ethics, justice, and sovereignty, considering their philosophical and sociological bases, and how these dimensions have been appropriated by Information Science with regard to the notions of information ethics, informational justice, and informational sovereignty. The results indicate a theoretical renewal of the field that reflects the current debates surrounding the current information regime, dominated by companies that control the storage, processing, classification, and distribution of information.