dc.description.abstract | The object of study of this investigation was the clipping of printed media which was chosen for this because besides being an instrument allowing to carry on an interdisciplinary investigation, it can also be the possibility of to reinforce the localization of this work in the intersection between information science and social communication, the knowledge fields that this study is about. The enumeration of conceptuals categories related to the clipping aim to facilitate the reflection in a interdisciplinary and parallel way between information science and social communication and also to orientate the methodological procedures of this report. Those categories were classified into a three distincts groups according with the nature of the elements it is composed of. The substantives categories are information and communication; periodic publications, information sources; Texts and Users: needs, access, satisfaction and information use. The predicatives categories are Ethics and Truth; Actuality/Validity/Publical interest and Visibility/Image. The proceedings categories are Primary and secundary information services production, Techinical reading; Dissemination, selection and treating of information; Measuring/Valuation and Bibliometrics. The approach to the object was through of the selection of some conceptuals categories as analysis categories . Those chosen categories was Users: needs, access, satisfaction and information use; Ethics and Truth; Visibility/Image; Primary and secundary information services production; Measuring/Valuation and Bibliometrics. In the approach to the object were used free observation of use and production, document analysis and data colection through questionary apply to members of regional parliament, to their press assistants and to producers and users of the clipping. Take into consideration the production procedures, make evident that the practices of production are closer to bibliometrics and information science, even dealing this practices with primary sources of information from printed media. Relating with using process, it is closer to social communication because according to the data colected, MPs and their assistants considering clipping of printed media as an important instrument to create communication policy. | |