Abstract
This paper presents the way in which the topic of the subject is researched within the research line "Users, knowledge management and information practices" of the Postgraduate Program in Information Science of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (PPGCI / UFMG). The thematic is treated from three axes: information practices, mediations and reading, designating the three main ways through which the subject, or information users, has been researched. It presents the central concepts and authors that support them, research groups and dissertations and theses defended for each of them. It is concluded that the specificity of the perspective delineated from this set of investigations represents a unique contribution to the informational studies highlighting the active character of the subjects, the importance of the context, and the linking of informational processes with the constitution of identities and social reality.
Keywords:
Information practices; Mediations; Reading; Informational subject; Information users