The Danish librarian and cultural negotiation: new paradigm for mediation and appropriation of information

Abstract

Introduction: It presents results of doctoral thesis.
Objective: This article aims to contribute to the definition and development of the concept "cultural negotiation", understood as a theoretical-methodological category guiding the mediation processes used to suit the written culture.
Methodology: Collaborative methodology has been used, in other words, a scientific construction process based on the dialogue between scientific knowledge and "action", adopting, however, a perspective that does not reduce or overlap one another.
Results: The results indicate that by acknowledging and incorporating their concepts and processes, the conflicts caused by divergences and/or asymmetries between the different individuals, groups, segments, categories, sociocultural matrix (readers/nonreaders, oral tradition/written culture), the case shown (a Danish public library), unlike others of the same content are, rather than instances of control and/or dissemination, it’s instance of cultural negotiation involving subjects, texts and contexts in active, assertive and complex processes of information and cultural appropriation, including - but not exclusively - written culture.
Conclusions: The concept of cultural negotiation, therefore, points out to new perspectives concerning written culture, as well as cultural appropriation as a whole. Simultaneously, it indicates to be able to contribute to redefine essential practices and concepts of cultural mediation and its paradigms.