INFORMATIONAL SUBJECT, CONCEPT IN EMERGENCY: a theoretical-conceptual review of Ibero-American scientific journals

This research aims to analyse the usage of the concept of informational subject in articles published in ibero-american scientific journals in Information Science field (published between 2012 - the first time an article was published with this definition - and March 2018 - time when the database was collected for the research), available at "Portal de Periodicos da Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior - Capes". It conceptualizes the informational subject and reviews the origen of the conception of subject in Ancient Greece, as well the definition of subject in Philosophy and Psycoanalysis, to search for the importance of the idea of subject for the scientific thought. It also analyses the usage of the term information user and how the other usages and understandings of subject in the journals. It concludes that the concept of informational subject rises to answer the necessity of researchers from Information Science who are dissatisfied with the term informational user, insufficient to understand the contemporary relationships of the subjects with the information in many contexts and means. It also verifies that it's a recently conception in the area and, because of it, it can be seem a underutilized use of the term informational subject in the articles analysed compared to the use of the traditional term informational user.